{"id":563,"date":"2023-04-12T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/?p=563"},"modified":"2023-04-12T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T11:00:59","slug":"exhibition-gamerica-explorations-of-the-pixel-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2023\/04\/12\/exhibition-gamerica-explorations-of-the-pixel-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition! GAmerica: Explorations of the Pixel Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_x_elementToProof\">Studio 3, Jarman Building, University of Kent<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_x_elementToProof\">April 20 &#8211; 27 2023\u00a0 11-4 Daily (closed Sunday)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"x_x_elementToProof\"><b>About the Exhibition:<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_x_elementToProof\">\n<p class=\"x_x_ContentPasted0\">Since the inception of the digital age, computer programmers have transformed the American experience into interactive entertainment, turning all kinds of U.S history, culture and politics into entertainment and play. Video games have collectively created a digital America for us to navigate and to explore.<span class=\"x_x_Apple-converted-space x_x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0Featuring a mixture of curated posters, digital art, and playable machines, this exhibition catalogues America as depicted in modern video games. Come learn more about GAmerica and play some vintage titles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_x_elementToProof x_elementToProof\">Exhibitor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/people\/1478\/wills-john\">Professor John Wills<\/a> is a professor in US cultural history, film and game studies at the University of Kent, and the author of seven books, including <i>Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture<\/i>\u00a0(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), and, with Esther Wright,\u00a0<i>Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth and Violence in the Video Game West<\/i>\u00a0(University of Oklahoma Press, 2023). He is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_x_elementToProof\">\n<div>&#8212;<\/div>\n<div>Sincere thanks and credit to The British Academy (London), Future Human (Kent), and the Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries (Kent).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio 3, Jarman Building, University of Kent April 20 &#8211; 27 2023\u00a0 11-4 Daily (closed Sunday) About the Exhibition: Since the inception of the digital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2023\/04\/12\/exhibition-gamerica-explorations-of-the-pixel-frontier\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25727,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}