Video: Play! - 3000 square meters of old video games in the center of Sao Paulo
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the center of the Brazilian city of São Paulo, a very unusual dynamic image has appeared right on the wall of one of the high-rise buildings in the past few days in the evenings. It's about light installations Play!depicting classic video games 70-80s of the twentieth century. It is unlikely that the creators of the first video games like Pac Man, Space Invaders, Super Mario Bros. or Tetris thought they were making history, works of art for centuries. Recently, however, it is becoming clear that these simple toys have become a global cultural heritage that has long overcome the boundaries of the virtual world.
As proof of this statement, we can recall the work of the street artist known under the pseudonym Space Invader, the sculpture Game Over, which turned the heroes of the famous statue of Michelangelo La Pieta ("Lamentation of Christ") from Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary into Mario and the Princess, as well as many other incarnations old video games in the real world.
A new such transfer took place the other day in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, where a group of artists from all over the world turned the wall of one of the high-rise buildings into a huge interactive screen with an area of three thousand square meters. And on this screen, every night you could play one of the classic video games.
Moreover, this can be done using an iPad tablet computer, on which the creators of this video installation installed special software that allows you to play video games with an image displayed on a giant screen.
And any passer-by who happened to be nearby could play one of the proposed games - control the packman, put the figures in Tetris, try to fight off the advancing space invaders.
Play! Is one of the world's largest art installations and will not be forgotten by the people of São Paulo. And the cultural center, on the wall of which it is located, in recent weeks has experienced a record influx of visitors in the entire history of its existence.
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