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Shadows! Flickering shadows! With hard edges! Or soft! Baked or realtime! Moving with the sun! Growing in intensity! Gold gleaming in their darkness!

Staring Contest
(with Google Arts and Culture)

Face off against famous artworks, try not to blink!

Artot
(with Google Arts and Culture)

Get your fortune read with an Art themed Tarot Deck.

Curate Your Own Art Game

Let’s make a game! Let’s think about making a game! A game about making games! Let’s play a Choose Your Own Adventure about making a game about games where you’re me! I’m not confused! Neither are we!

v r $4.99

What does $4.99 get you these days?! One crowbar?! Two swordfish?! Three airliners?! Four Sci-Fi doors?! A super store?! The Taj Mahal?! The Sahara desert?! A seagull?! Come and see!

v r 2

So you made a videogame that hid the things you were trying to exhibit?! Had some doubts but released it anyway?! Now you’re trying to crawl back in with a different version that lets the audience see the Unity GameObject menu brought to life?! No, wait, that’s me! Enjoy it if you can!

The Artist Is Present
(Originally released 14 September 2011)

Are games art?! This one definitely is! The Artist is Present is a Sierra-style recreation of the famed performance piece of the same name by artist Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Have the experience only a lucky few have ever had! Stare into Marina Abramovic’s eyes! Make of it what you will! Just like art!

The Artist Is Present 2

It’s happening! Again! The Artist Is Present! You are present! The artist is you! Put on your red dress and sit in the famous chair! Lock eyes with your audience! Be there now!

v r 3

Water! Water! Everywhere! All kinds! Best Water! Decent Water! Realistic Water! Manga Water! Mobile Water! Magic Water! But not a drop to drink!

v r 2

There’s so much to see and do! But you can’t see it or do it! Grapple with videogame ontology! And epistemology! Perhaps you won’t see the point of any of this! I’m sorry! No I’m not!

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A room! A trunk! A tube! A bed! A radiator! A light! A landscape! A darkness! A separation! A floating in air! A doubling! An intersection! And more! And more!

Post-Apocalyptic Abramović Method Game

The sky is grey! The birds all flew! There’s no more trees for complaining to! The table’s turned! The rice is gone! The world is over, but the Method is strong!

The Stolen Art Gallery

The decrepit chestnut strikes back! Games! Art! It’s an art gallery so it’s art! But there’s no art in it so it isn’t! But maybe that’s art so it is! But it’s a videogame so it isn’t’! But everything is different now so it is!

Let's Play: Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Art Edition Edition

It’s a game! In a painting! On a wall! In a gallery! In a game! Or something! Marvel as you once again confront that most boring question! Are games art?! Is art some kind of a damn game to you?!

Abramović Method Games

This is a Flash project and Flash has been discontinued. View the game's page for more information.

Count rice! Count seeds! Step up and down! Talk to trees! Stop the anger! Feel the rain! Look at the colours! Video game!

Durations

This is a Flash project and Flash has been discontinued. View the game's page for more information.

Are we there yet?! Are we there yet?! How long is this game anyway?! Develop an intimate relationship with time! Take a second! Take forever! Yes! It really does take as long as it says!

The Digital Marina Abramović Institute

This is a Flash project and Flash has been discontinued. View the game's page for more information.

Welcome to the Digital Marina Abramovic Institute! It’s like the Marina Abramovic Institute! But it’s Digital! What does that mean?! What do you mean, “what does that mean?!”?! Get in there and find out for yourself! Experience six exercises designed by Marina Abramovic! Watch some performance art! Get into the spirit of things!

Art Game

This is a Flash project and Flash has been discontinued. View the game's page for more information.

Experience the exhilaration of making art you really believe in! Experience the agony of rejection by the curatorial team! Consider selling out and just making what people seem to want! Change your mind again and follow your dreams! Be a star of the art world! Be a horrible failure! Be an artist!