[game_preservation] "More than A Craze" now online

[Melanie Swalwell]

Hello game_preservationists, 

I wanted to let you know about an online exhibition I have curated, “More than A Craze”.  It is now online.  Blurb follows below.  You will find it at http://www.maharagallery.org.nz/MoreThanACraze/index.php

I also wanted to enlist your help: I would appreciate any help in getting the word out about this to interested parties - forwards to relevant lists, etc.  Anyone willing to leave postcards in appropriate places, please send me a snail mail address and I will put some in the mail to you -- this is my cunning international promotional strategy :)

cheers, and enjoy,

Melanie

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“More Than A Craze” is an online exhibition consisting of 46 photographs of New Zealand’s early digital games scene.  Curated by Melanie Swalwell and Janet Bayly, “More Than A Craze” is one of the outcomes of Swalwell's research into the history of digital games in New Zealand, in the 1980s.  The exhibition combines the work of some of New Zealand’s best known documentary photographers – Ans Westra, Christopher Matthews, Robin Morrison – with images from the archives of Wellington’s Evening Post and Auckland’s Fairfax newspapers.  These photographers captured images of games, gamers and gameplay in the moment when these were novel.  

The exhibition website includes a short catalogue essay by Swalwell, and also a comments facility, where you are encouraged to record your impressions, memories, and recognitions.  

The exhibition and photographs will be of interest to people both curious and knowledgeable about the history of play and interactive entertainment, including those who are nostalgic for the old arcade days.

See it at http://www.maharagallery.org.nz/MoreThanACraze/index.php

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Dr Melanie Swalwell
Senior Lecturer, Screen and Media,
& Course Coordinator, B. Media
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001

278 Humanities Bldg

Ph: +61 8 8201 2619
Fax: +61 8 8201 3635

melanie.swalwell at flinders.edu.au

about me: http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/melanie.swalwell