MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM
MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM
MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM
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TA L E O F TA L E S<br />
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Michaël Samyn (1968) and Auriea Harvey (1971)<br />
have been working together since 1999. First under<br />
the name Entropy8Zuper! (entropy8zuper.org) and<br />
since 2002 as Tale of Tales (tale-of-tales.com). Tale<br />
of Tales develops digital entertainment for those<br />
who are looking for something different in the available choice of video games.<br />
The games of Samyn and Harvey disrupt the conventions that determine game<br />
culture (rules, competition and action) and introduce new forms of interaction<br />
and storytelling. Their purpose is to create more elegant and emotionally rich<br />
interactive entertainment. For this purpose, Tale of Tales features innovative forms<br />
of interaction, engaging poetic narratives and simple controls. Their creations<br />
are high-tech but deeply rooted in cultural tradition, with references to religious<br />
and mythological texts and folk tales and an aesthetics derived from pre-modern<br />
pictorial art. Tale of Tales wants to bring back an art where artisan craft is<br />
important and cynicism and irony are excluded, art that is unashamedly beautiful<br />
and communicates via the senses. Tale of Tales started off with the design of 8,<br />
an epic single player PC exploration game inspired by the various versions of<br />
the folk tale Sleeping Beauty. The Endless Forest is its second big project, it is an<br />
online multiplayer game that was launched in September 2005. The Path is their<br />
first commercially available single player game. A spiritual sequel to 8, The Path<br />
is a short horror game inspired by the tale of Little Red Ridinghood. Tale of Tales<br />
is also involved with research projects, such as Drama Princess, and theoretical<br />
discussions, as expressed in their Realtime Art Manifesto.<br />
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Vanitas (2010)<br />
Videogame for iPhone and iPod touch