Flux Factory presents it's summer exhibition. July 5th-26th 2003

There was a day When Super Mario's last level was the Final frontier, nothing mattered more than saving the earth from Space Invaders. Existence was a three dimensional world lived within comic books. It was never so good to be a teenager. These days are gone and Nintendo nes, Atari, and Commodore 64 are long forgotten. Except, maybe, for a few obscure Nerds and a handful of artists.

This show presents a selection of works emanating from that era, works that reflect and build on the particular feel of the Eighties and what experience was like then. There was a particular energy at the time, in being a teenager of that decade, that is unmistakable. This show is not about nostalgia, it is about reconnecting to the specificity of that era through the medium of art and it is about transforming that experience into something new. Game as a culture, binary as a language, pixel as an aesthetic.

curated by Jean Barberis

©2003

THIS EXHIBITION HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE
BY THE GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM GRAND MARNIER