Object Details
- Artist
- Ed Fries, born Bellevue, WA 1964
- Exhibition Label
- The engineer, programmer, and gamer Ed Fries was inspired by the idea that severe limitations precede creativity. Using the popular video game HALO as a departure point, Fries retooled the game’s mechanics and narrative to play on an Atari VCS, the vintage 1977 gaming console. HALO2600 contorts the boundaries of technological constraint by using the deprecated programming language of an obsolete system and rendering a contemporary video game in conversation with its techno-linguistic past. This “home brew” game cartridge---affectionately referred to among gamers as a “de-make”---acts as an update for a classic system that at once highlights video gaming’s prescience, obsolescence, and creative incitement.
- Watch This!: Revelations in Media Art, 2015
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mike Mika and Ed Fries
- Copyright
- © 2010, Ed Fries
- 2010
- Object number
- 2013.73
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Media Arts
- Medium
- video game for Atari VCS, color, sound
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Time-Based Media Art
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Record ID
- saam_2013.73
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7503a13ff-06e6-4f19-997b-dec303893ee0
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