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We're focusing on the art, but we completely understand and respect the fact that you can't have the art without the technology.'Īgreed Danielle Godbout, an artist at Vicarious Visions: 'The advances in the technology have given us the ability to push the art style and push the artistic limits.' 'If you don't have more sophisticated technology, then the artist can't be producing more sophisticated work. 'The advancement of the technology has allowed the art to be pushed,' Greenberg said. Like filmmaking, another young medium, it's a work in process. While all artists rely on technology - sculptors have their chisels, writers their Word or wax tablets - the art of the video game is always reinventing itself. Ethereally beautiful in design and execution, it illustrates both the evolution of technology and the growth of the art.Īlso included in 'Concept to Console' are the sets and figures from 'The Dream Machine,' a surreal, stop-motion game inspired by Roman Polanski and handcrafted from paper and clay artwork from 'The Unfinished Swan,' an eerie storybook game that shimmers to life as the player flings around paintballs design work and screen shots from 'Botanicula' and 'Machinarium,' two adventure-puzzle games from the Czech company Amanita, the first filled with quirky creatures, the other, quirky robots art from 'Transistor,' a role-playing game designed by artist Jen Zee with nods to Gustav Klimt and the shimmering urban futurism of art nouveau and sketches and figures from 'Skylanders: Swap Force,' the game from Menands-based Vicarious Visions that casts energetic playthings in epic battles.Īnd yes, all of these are far cry from those old Atari 'E.T.' cartridges salvaged last year in Mexico. Nyamyam devised its own, innovative tools to create the immersive world of a Japanese pop-up book in 'Tengami,' one of seven games and six companies featured in the Opalka exhibit. And as the tools grew more sophisticated, so did the art.' People were trying to do the best they can with their tools at the time. 'It's just that it was all they could do at the time - like pyramid graffiti. 'I wouldn't say that 'Pong' is not art,' said Jennifer Schneidereit, a game designer and one-third of the indie company Nyamyam.

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Friday see website for lecture series, film series and other events. Where: The Opalka Gallery at Sage College of Albany, 140 New Scotland Ave., Albany ' From Concept to Console: Art and Aesthetics in Video Game Design'

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