{"id":490,"date":"2006-05-31T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2006-05-31T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T08:55:00","slug":"curator-defense-the-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Curator Defense &#8211; the video game."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know your thinking I&#8221;m finally going to say something about the Whitney Biennial &#8211; don&#8217;t worry &#8211; I&#8217;m still not talking. (I mean is there anything left to say?) However following on the heels of the art reality tv show there is now a video game that has the player become the curator defending your museum against robot-controlled modern artworks.<\/p>\n<p>I think I would rather see artworks attack a la Survival Research Laboratories rather than some fake museum defend itself. I have not played this (probably wont play this) &#8211; so go enjoy yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t a curator defend themselves with reams or rhetoric and arcane philosophy &#8211; but then at the last minute, throw in a zeitgiest-ish celebrity or alterna-rock star for &#8220;the people&#8221; to attach themselves to and create a bit of buzz?<\/p>\n<p>And at the end of the day, I could be too snooty about this, seeing that its just a game.<\/p>\n<p>Go download the game at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbhowe.net\" target=\"_newssy\">www.davidbhowe.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know your thinking I&#8221;m finally going to say something about the Whitney Biennial &#8211; don&#8217;t worry &#8211; I&#8217;m still not talking. (I mean is there anything left to say?) However following on the heels of the art reality tv show there is now a video game that has the player become the curator defending your museum against robot-controlled modern artworks. I think I would rather see artworks attack a la Survival Research Laboratories rather than some fake museum defend itself. I have not played this (probably wont play this) &#8211; so go enjoy yourself. Wouldn&#8217;t a curator defend&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=490\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curator Defense &#8211; the video game.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}