2021/10/29

Mike Smith’s Cold War “Anti-Game” Acquired by MoMA

● 29/10/2021
“The gesture of creating a kind of ‘anti-game,’ one that goes against the typical rules of game-making, is a gesture which has been famously repeated over the decades by both artists and other video game creators.”
– And/Or Gallery, in a newsletter announcing MoMA’s acquisition of Michael Smith’s Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter Snack Bar (1983), Notably, the installation includes Mike Builds a Shelter, one of the first artist-created videogames, which tasks players with trying to prepare for Armageddon.
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$40 USD