The Garden of Forking Paths and K-Country at Loop Space October 2 for the TINA festival

For more information on The Garden of Forking Paths go to The Garden of Forking Paths I dTour

For more information on K-Country go to K-Country, NED KELLY meets SCI-FI at Loop Space

Review of TINA 2009 with reference to The Garden of Forking Paths. RealTime Arts - Magazine - utopia reconsidered, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue94/9651

Opens Friday October 2 @ 6pm and runs until October 24  2009. All welcome!

An exhibition of historic and contemporary artists' computer games.

Jorge Luis Borges' 1941 short story "The Garden of Forking Paths" predates the Internet but its notions of non-linearity, the storyline surrounding an infinite, labyrinthine book that realises multiple paths and futures are echoed in the information age with hypertext, the World Wide Web and the form and structure of computer games.

Just as Borges and his contemporaries pushed the envelope of the narrative form, so too artists have been creating and modifying computer games, experimenting with the notions of what a game is and exploring alternate approaches to interaction and play methodologies. This exhibition draws together notable historic and contemporary examples of games created by artists that push the bounds of the genre and break the orthodox set of rules.

Artists: Laurie Anderson (USA) with Hsin-Chien Huang (Taiwan), Andy Deck (USA), Anita Fontaine (Australia) and Mike Pelletier (Canada), Jaron Lanier (USA), Michael Nyman (UK), Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie (UK), Tale of Tales (Belgium)

Curator: Neil Jenkins

Opening Hours: The exhibition opens at 6pm Friday 2nd October at Loop Space and will be open from 12pm-5pm Saturday 3rd October to Monday 5th October for the TINA festival.

The exhibition continues to October 24th, opening hours: Thursdays & Fridays 12pm-5pm and Saturdays 11am-4pm.