Marcin Ramocki "8 BIT"
Fab Lab ABQ is ALSO very fortunate to present Marcin Ramocki’s documentary “8 Bit”. Marcin is an artist and director based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and a teacher at New Jersey Institute of Technology. His first film 8 BIT had its world premiere at the MOMA in NYC to acclaim and has garnered a cult following amongst DIYers and digital artists worldwide.
Excerpt taken from The Museum of Modern Art’s Premiere release.
According to organizer Barbara London, “8 BIT ably chronicles the modernist and post-modernist tendencies in the relatively recent history of video game-based art, but also suggests that the bit- bending antics of the post-video game generation hint at a new current in the uncharted waters of 21st century art history.”
8 BIT is a hybrid documentary examining the influence of video games on contemporary culture.
A mélange of a rocumentary, art expose and a culture-critical investigation, 8 BIT ties together seemingly disconnected phenomena like the 80’s demo scene, chiptune music and contemporary artists using machinima and modified games.
Produced in NYC, LA, Paris and Tokyo, 8 BIT brings a global perspective on the new artistic approaches of the DIY generation which grew up playing Atari and Commodore 64.
Some of the artists featured in 8 BIT include Cory Arcangel, Bit Shifter, Bodenstandig 2000, Bubblyfish, Mary Flanagan, Alex Galloway, Glomag, Paul Johnson, John Klima, Johan Kotlinski, Nullsleep, Joe McKay, Tom Moody, Akiko Sakaizumi, Eddo Stern, TEAMTENDO, Treewave and Carlo Zanni. With the help of media critic Ed Halter and new media curator and writer Christiane Paul, these very recent artistic strategies are put in the historical context of modernist and postmodernist discourse and examined as potential examples of a transition into fresh, uncharted territory.
8 BIT insists that in the 21st century Game-Boy rock, machinima and game theory belong together and share a common root: the digital heritage of Generation X.
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