Parallel, Harun Farocki, 2012, 2-channel video, 17 mins., colourįor over one hundred years photography and film were the leading media. The pits contain cowry shells, seeds or small pebbles used as counters. There have been several variations in the layout of the pits, one among them being seven pits on each player’s side. The game is played by two players, with a wooden board that has fourteen pits in all (hence the name from the words fourteen pits (pathinaalam kuzhi). Pallankuzhi is a traditional mancala game played in South India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Pallankuzhi, Brass and copper, From South India, Year of acquisition 1969 The designs of the cards of Dashavatara Ganjifa use motifs from the ten Avatars of Vishnu. The precise style and arrangement of the decoration on any set is dependent on its artist. The suits are composed of twelve subjects on coloured backgrounds, with pip cards running from 1 to 10, and two court cards, one of a minister or counselor, the other of a king. Traditionally, Ganjifa cards are circular and hand-made by local artisans. They can be lavish sets made of precious stone-inlaid ivory or tortoise shell, or cheaper sets made from materials such as wood, palm leaf, or pasteboard. The name Ganjifa comes from the Persian word ganjifeh meaning playing card. Ganjifa is a card game that originated in Persia in 16c. Ganjifa Card set, Natural colours on vasli base coated with lac, From Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, Year of acquisition 1961 I am able to talk about the ability of games to become surrogate interfaces for production though this game.
Earslap otomata full#
Soundcloud is full of soundtracks created and recorded from Otomata and for some musicians it actually becomes a useful instrument. It became very popular as a music-making tool for amateurs and is a good representative of games which become sandboxed simulation spaces for accidents and use casual actions to create something expressive.
Earslap otomata series#
Otomata is a musical instrument that makes music from the chaotic and generative result of a series of accidents running in a loop. I am thinking of of Osmos actually representing the contemporary game with a unusual setting, The game interface is entirely gesture-based. In is a good representative of the physics based games that have been released in the last five years, because it is easily the most elegant and esoteric environment which offers a very misty storyline. The fact that you can experience the game in either slow time or fast, that it has spaces for wandering and that the game-designers actually talk about the “calming” effect of playing the game with headphones makes this game unique. Osmos is a simulation of a physics based world in which there is complexity at play. This idea is a very strong meme in games (procedural narratives etc) and in the futuristic visions and ideas for storytelling. In run-time it actually seems like the characters have a mind of their own, but they are always responding within the parameters of their programmed nature. The author or the developers in this case develop the individual characters and their mechanisms of response and parlance but nothing more. Algorithmic storytelling is the art of telling a story which is not scripted yet. With the Facade project the promise of algorithmic storytelling was demonstrated for the first time at such a scale. An interrogation of cross pollination between games and arts is the underlying theme of the exhibition.įaçade, Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern, 2005 The selected works will capture image making process explored in both, games and art, and highlight the audience engagement while gaming. The exhibition, Of Games: Frameworks in question, juxtaposes art with games and gaming technologies including the old board games of India like Ganjifas, Parallel by Harun Farocki and video games like Osmos and Otomata. September, 2013 at Khoj International Artists’ Association, Delhi.
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