Richard Garriott’s masterpiece, the role-playing game series “Ultima”, cornerstone of the genre, is displayed in a special exhibition. It shows the complex and innovative fusion of narrativity, interaction, personalization, but also graphics development beginning in the 1980s. Visitors can enjoy the precious collectibles until the 10th of November 2013.

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The second main course “Adventure” shows the history of computer based adventure games beginning with Zork, a text-only adventure from the early 1980s and playable on a classic Macintosh computer, over Zauberschloss and Zak McKracken running on a Commodore C64, Zelda on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System to Shen Mue from 1999, which can be played on the SEGA Dreamcast console.

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Thursday was a busy day at EMERGENT<IMG> / Museum Angewandte Kunst. Visitors of all ages were fascinated by the historic computer games and their immersive strength. Some people got stuck in the Great Underground Empire of Zork while others experienced the many ways to die inside Zauberschloss.

The main course “Simulation”, starting with the very first real-time interactive video game from 1958 “Tennis for Two“, shows the history of tennis simulation games until the year 1999. Including Pong in the 1970s, Atari Tennis in the 1980s and Super Tennis in the 1990s the relation of game mechanics, graphics, realism, player perspective and narrativity are investigated.

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Wednesday was the first day of the the EMERGENT<IMG> exhibition at Museum Angewandte Kunst and the only chance to visit the exhibition at night besides today’s tour at 8:30 PM. Congratulations to all people who have so generously contributed time, energy and skills.

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All preparations for tomorrow’s grand opening are done. We have set up the exibition EMERGENT<IMG> at Museum Angewandte Kunst (museum of applied arts) Frankfurt for the upcoming B3 biennial of moving images festival. The brochures are also ready. Besides the two main exhibitions there is a special exhibition to be discovered by visitors. We will provide daily updates on the exhibition.

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Canan Hastik presented DEMOAGE MEGAontology lightweight prototype @ Media Art Histories 2013 (MAH): Renew, 5th international conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology in Riga from October 8 – 11, 2013. The presentation was held in Archiving Session chaired by Frieder Nake.

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For B3 Biennial of the moving image 2013 MEGA shows a tour of selected interactive exhibits displaying the development of figurative narrativity and ludic storytelling in electronic games plus the tension between text and image. A special show about the computer game series “Ultima” leads to the main theme: The picture in relation to the text but also the development of the image itself emerges. The main exhibition is dedicated to two dimensions of storytelling in computer games, classic-literaral narrative and ludic narrative in two parallel courses.

EMERGENT<IMG>, Museum of Applied Art Frankfurt / Main, Wednesday 30.10.2013 until at least Sunday 3.11.2013.