Tbilisi display to explore multimedia narratives, videogame art
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Questions of cultural reference in videogame form and multimedia will be explored by a group exhibition at Tbilisi Photography and Multimedia Museum starting this Thursday, with interactivity for viewers and series of meetings packaged as part of the display.
Hosted by In-between Conditions - a transdisciplinary platform of contemporary creatives - and entitled Simulation Fields, the exhibition will bring works by seven artists within a space designed by another to ask how the evolution of semiotic forms in videogames interacts with cultural context.
Looking at how layers of virtual presentation and digital medium shape the experience of the art form, the show will seek to explore the artistic potential of videogames, and how they become part of the collective consciousness.
What is the nature of games, and how was this nature implanted in our collective consciousness – as a cultural code, a disposition, providence or a choice?
- exhibition organisers
Within the display designed by Lado Lomitashvili, winner of Tsinandali Visual Arts Award and Zygmunt Waliszewski Visual Arts Award, works by Mananiko Kobakhidze, Anushka Chkheidze & Dennis Hoffmann, Mariam Natroshvili & Detu Jintcharadze, Nikoloz Kapanadze, and Vasili Macharadze will be introduced to visitors in the concept.
Curated by Vato Urushadze, Khatia Tchokhonelidze and Giorgi Spanderashvili, the selected exhibits are seen as focused on "modern video game culture in the Georgian context", organisers said while detailing what will be the fourth display from the In-between Conditions platform.
Previous explorations of the platform have included Post.Digital.Dreams and Man With a Webcam | Digital Oases, responding to other questions of creative processes within wider contexts.
Supported by Students Alumni Association of International Education Centre, Goethe Institut Georgia and Tbilisi City Hall, the latest display is partnered by Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, a venue launched in 2018.
Simulation Fields will be on show Monday-Friday, between June 10-July 9, at the museum located at 14 Merab Kostava Street in the capital.
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