AWP03: idealism / simulation / SimCity 2000

‘My savant boy is only as good as the game he plays.’ Ian Cheng The gang talks sandboxes, compare credentials, white flight, urban blight, Will Wright, Ian Cheng, SimCity 2k and desperately apply topical political references to whatever circumstances they encounter. We continue to grapple with the podcast as medium for videogame playthroughs. Since recording this podcast Ben has begun obsessively playing the SimCity Build It phone-based game. Build It focuses upon construction and property value development and is a game that seems impossible to succeed in without in app purchases. Despite his awareness of these ideological allegiances both in the form and content of the game, Ben continues to be quietly and irrevocably inculcated. Hito Steryl at the AGO: https://ago.ca/exhibitions/hito-steyerl-future?gclid=Cj0KCQjwr-_tBRCMARIsAN413WS_LE0i_tBPS3uQzDggiM9qe4-mkW5UjQdHXvg7M_6xCGRhv_UEeewaAgTUEALw_wcB Ian Cheng: Emmissaries: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/40 BOB: https://gladstonegallery.com/exhibition/16819/installation-view#&panel1-6 ‘This Papaya Tastes Perfect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3erXsviwqs Brats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL9jtjJ3zv0 Pruitt-Igoe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe The Architecture of Socialist Yugoslavia: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3931 More on Forrester and urban planning: https://logicmag.io/play/model-metropolis/ Democracy 3: http://positech.co.uk/democracy3/ Videos on the Sim universe: https://youtu.be/Vjf3VKguq_U https://youtu.be/TrScy1icWjI Rhizome New Museum thing: https://www.newmuseum.org/pages/view/rhizome To Rent at the Brandscape you can contact us here: http://brandscape.club/contact.html