Molleindustria
http://www.molleindustria.org/
“Molleindustria is an Italian team of artists, designers and programmers that aims at starting a serious discussion about social and political implications of videogames. This will involve media activists, net-artists, habitual players and critics and detractors of videogames. We chose to start with online gaming in order to sidestep mainstream distribution channels and to overcome our lack of means. Using simple but sharp games we hope to give a starting point for a new generation of critical game developers and, above all, to experiment with practices that can be easily emulated and virally diffused. (…)We can free videogames from the “dictatorship of entertainment”, using them instead to describe pressing social needs, and to express our feelings or ideas just as we do in other forms of art. But if we want to express an alternative to dominant forms of game-play we must rethink game genres, styles and languages. The ideology of a game resides in its rules, in its invisible mechanics, and not only in its narrative parts. That’s why a global renewal of this medium will be anything but easyâ€. (Molleindustria).
Molleindustria
is participating in
the exhibition
Seven Ways for Saying Internet with Net Art
curated by Elena Julia Rossi
will be launched on 1 November 2007
featuring these artists
Juliet DavisReinhald Drouhin
Free Soil (Amy Franceschini, Myriel Milicevic, Nils Rømer)
Molleindustria
Santiago Ortiz
C.J.Yeh
Lorenzo Pizzanelli