Tomorrow, Parsons The New School for Design’s Communication Design and Technology department opens an exhibit exploring the world of popular video game, The Sims. The game developer, Electronic Arts (EA) Inc., partnered with Parsons and two other art schools to present the exhibit, which also puts students in the running to win up to $12,000 for best entry. The show will be on view at the Chelsea Art Museum until May 12.
The Sims: In the Hands of Artists showcases 75 student works ranging from machinima, physical computing, interactive media, and three-dimensional printing to painting, drawing to toy design.
The show kicks off a three-part series of separate Sims-inspired art exhibits. The Academy of Art University of San Francisco's exhibit will be on view from June 26 – July 19, and later the Otis College in Los Angeles show from July 14 – August 11.
*Pictured: *Nary Han, Zeke Shore, Kinsley Stofft created a virtual/real world mash-up in their project, The Humans.
Here's a peek at tomorrow’s show after the jump
Bengt Brummer and Ohal Grietzer created a Sims-based reality TV show called City Swap, in which two people are chosen to swap lives and trade cities for a day.
Becky Heritage, Mike Edwards and Inti Einhorn's Mill of the Mind, studies the effects of the power of authority through a Milgram-like experiment that prompts visitors to deliver a series of increasingly higher voltages to the Sims test subject.
Ed Chow built a customizable Sims-inspired toy with interchangeable parts.
