Let's Entertain

As an important dimension of technological penetration into popular culture, video games continue to gain new life. It inherits the tradition of games from the bottom of civilisation and becomes a multidimensional digital entertainment and cultural expression. Along with the establishment of its own subjectivity, games as a discipline have begun to dialogue with philosophy, art, and education on an equal footing. Game scholar Jasper Ruhl suggests that the relationship between games and the arts is not a simple juxtaposition or distinction, but rather one that is interdependent and intertwined in some ways. It doubles as a self-organising and complex adaptive system, and in doing so explores the possibilities of human perception.

The exhibition is an attempt to explore this intertwining and fusion, where artists, independent game developers, and game UP masters will respond to reality and depict the future through gameplay. In order to bring the audience closer to this “Let’s entertain”, more than 20 works are divided into seven sub-sections, all of which are named after classic online games – “The Machine is Calling”,”Nature Adventure”, “Classical Magic”, “Development Game”, “Body Sense Game “, “Role Playing”, and “Leisure Time”. The programme ranges from interactive installations that reflect on mechanisation and digitisation, to immersive experiences that lead the audience to think about the state of ecology and urban space through virtual reality, to interactive mechanisms that connect physical experiences and emotional philosophies.

The language of play redefines the subject-object relationship between the “viewed” work and the viewer. If the “meta-universe” is a broad game world based on individual creation and exists in the virtual experience, then we need to think about how to mobilise physicality and redefine the art scene in the physical world. Nowadays, with the continuous improvement of game engines and the enhancement of silicon-based computing power, artists and young creators can easily use these technologies to express themselves. As a result, a paradise has been created that confuses the “game room experience” with a serious exhibition.