[ISEA2009] Artist Talk: Keith Lam — Moving Mario

Artist Statement

Over the years, the development of video games is trying its best to produce the virtual reality experience which getting closer to the reality. By changing the interface, from Atari’s joystick to Analog Vibration of PS2 joystick, then Gun Shape controller for shooting game, and Dance Mania’s floor controller to Wii wiimote, video game design is creating more and more “physical experience” for the players. Players now can actual smash and swing to play the game, but we are still playing the games in a 2D virtual environment: manipulating the character in an unlimited virtual space in a fixed static limited real world.

Moving Mario is definitely not reproducing Super Mario Bros in another way. By grabbing partial concept and some of the key elements behind the TV game development, Moving Mario is trying to challenge some of the traditional game elements. Throughout the gaming process, players can rethink the relationship between the player and the game. [source: Vimeo]

  • Keith Yan Kit Lam, or Keith Lam, is a New Media Artist from Hong Kong. Award + Honrary Mention: Interactive Arts, PRIX Ars Electronica 2008. Exhibitions: Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2007, Hong Kong, 2007; CyberArts 08, Ars Electronica , OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, 2008; Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia, 2008; AveCom, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 2008. keithlyk.net