8-bit Love

2013-10-18 22:26 | Comments: 0

We Love 8-bit exhibition @ Burn Labs Vienna. More than 40 artists celebrating their game-childhood of the 80s and 90s.

Photo credit: Viki Secrets

"Summer Games" by Veri Hanak Hammerl. Created pixel by pixel ;)

Hi, the "We Love 8Bit" exhibition is dedicated to the computer games of the 1980s and 1990s, the beginning of the modern video game era. Who does not remember the pixelated graphics of that time, which forced our imagination and fantasies?

My first console was the Philips Videopac G7000 (Odyssey2), my first personal computer the Commodore 64 (C64) and I also grew up playing arcade games, where you had to insert a coin to play a game. High-res graphics is not everything. What has been enjoyable and addictive then, is enjoyable and addictive now. It is the gameplay that matters.

The "We Love 8Bit" exhibition, which has made stops in Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin this year, brought together more than 40 German, Austrian, and international artists from different backgrounds, joined by their 8-bit love.

"8BIT" by DAIM. 256 different colors on 256 wooden cubes.

"Summer Games" by Veri Hanak Hammerl

"The NES Effect" by Antoni Tudisco

"The Console" by Joseph Rudolf

Nintendo Game Boy cartridge "Upskirt Boyz 2" by Freshmax

"Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja" by Victor Somoza Benitez

"Super Mario World" by Victor Somoza Benitez

"Korobeiniki" (Russian folk song) by AMIT 2.0

"LOL#Duckface" by Janice Vogt

"1UP" by Frau Isa

"Insert Coin" by Robinizer

Luke behind you ... a three headed monkey ;P Picture title "Wie passend, du kämpfst wie eine Kuh." (Monkey Island sword fight insult "How appropriate. You fight like a cow.") by Liz Hanke