Video game developer and educator Pippin Barr invites viewers/participants to immerse themselves in his video games. He combines visual art with an incisive knowledge of programming to create unusual video games that challenge the nature of games, artwork, and entertainment. Barr produces about ten free online games a year. They are not games in the traditional sense, because the gamer cannot always “win.” They are thought-provoking pseudo-performance pieces in which the player is a participant as well as a viewer.
Art teachers incorporate humor, play, game creation, and imagination into their lessons. Young students assemble surreal imaginative photomontages, elementary students create pinch-pot monsters and 3D environments to film in stop-motion animation, middle-school students reference pop culture in playful pop art television sculptures, high-school students interpret their social media personas through photo collage, and more.
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