Control the search engine GOOGLE over the infoFlatSphere and defend it from other search engines. Try to survive and shoot as many Search engines as you can in the process. @ www.rgbproject.com
These days, all I am playing is Space Invaders for the PlayStation 2 (and R-Type Final as well, but that's another story, well, post). Interestingly enough, although is 25 years old, Taito's game still influences contemporary culture on many different levels (more on this later). Even Mauro Ceolin's latest work, GoogleBattle.03, draws inspiration from Space Invaders.
Here is an interesting description/comment from Pierluigi Casolari:
"From the early '90s, Newpop Artists begin to analyse pop culture in a different way from Pop artist of the 60s as Warhol or Lichtenstein. They reject idea that pop culture is a system of stars and icons and study it as a language, a media among others. Mauro Ceolin focuses on the videogame’s universe. According to Ceolin, a videogame is not only a form of entertainment, but a medium of communication. But unlike other neopop artists Ceolin is not interested mainly in videogame as a language: he actually uses it as language, as a medium that actually talks to us in significant ways.
His last artwork is Google Battle, a modified videogame inspired to an ancient spaceship battle platform. In his version Ceolin substitutes spaceship for search engines logos, transforming the ancient space battle in a contemporary war for internet supremacy. The player plays Google and he has to defend himself from other search engines as Lycos, Yahoo, Altavista, etc. Google Battle is not a surrealistic videogame, it describes a real economic struggle. Search engines company are forming an alliance to stop Google’s success and supremacy and Ceolin describes this internet war using his favorite language, that of the videogame. This medium allows the artist to present facts, real situations in an ironic/iconic/ludic language" [Pierluigi Casolari].
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