New Video Game Delivers the Immersive Realism of Waiting 5 Hours in Line at a Museum
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
A year ago, the contemporary artist Marina Abramovic held a show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, ทางเข้า winner55 ผ่านโทรศัพท์ มือ ถือ at which patrons waited in line for a very, very long time just to meet her. The excitement of that encounter is now chronicled in a recently launched free-to-play online game.(new Image()).src 
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https://kotaku.com/saturday-timewaster-dont-shit-your-pants-5157888 That’s a joke, son. The Artist is Present, by Pippin Barr, is an honest attempt to deliver that experience in a virtual setting, even if winner55 ทางเข้า สล็อต the campy 8-bit visuals and graphical-adventure quality suggests it’s all 
a joke.
“I didn’t do it to make a statement, or to be provocative or challenging at all. I really admire Abramović and I wanted to make the experience as authentic as possible.” Barr, a video game researcher and author of the upcoming How to Play a Video Game, told Slate.
Barr’s the virtual MoMA is not open unless the real MoMA is open—that means you can’t play it before 10:30 a.m. or after 5:30 p.m., (EDT) or on Tuesdays, or on Christmas or Thanksgiving. Well, you can play, but your character will be told the museum is closed when he (I guess that’s a he) approaches the 
front door.
Once inside you’ll walk past two galleries with 8-bit renderings of famous paintings, then commence to waiting in line. Barr swears it is possible to reach the front of the line, saying it took him five hours to do so on Thursday. Once you do, [SPOILER ALERT] you get to stare into Marina’s eyes for as long as you wish. The Artist is Present [Pippin Barr via Slate] You can contact Owen Good, pg123 the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
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