Yokohama curators discuss games and access at art exhibition

Curators Fujimoto and Takashima described how a Yokohama exhibition brings games, art and access together in an interview published by Game*Spark on November 14.

Under Commons Vol.2 is scheduled at Art Center NEW from October 16 through November 15, according to the organizer’s program. It lists three artist-and-game collaborations, including projects connected to Analogue: A Hate Story, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood and Citizen Sleeper.

In the Game*Spark interview, the curators described chairs that visitors can move or borrow for seated viewing and lower display positions intended to accommodate people using wheelchairs. They discussed these arrangements as part of their approach to how people encounter the exhibition.

The program also lists a reconstruction of Finnegan Shannon’s Time travel with me that presents visual information about the exhibition in recorded speech. The interview says artists provided descriptions for audio available at the entrance.

Fujimoto and Takashima described wanting visitors to spend time with the works and interact, bringing games and contemporary art into the same setting.