[-empyre-] Games without rules; art by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo

[Jim Andrews]

Thought I'd send you http://bigbridge.org/jane from the recently published
issue of bigbridge.org. This shows one of Jane Dalrymple-Hollo's 'games
without rules'. http://janedalrymplehollo.com/games.html shows a few more
such 'games without rules' by Jane.

I find them intriguing. I'm not really inclined to try to figure out what
the rules could be. Or am I? Is that just part of what we do in responding
to art? I expect it is. Another part of one's response to Jane's 'games
without rules' is to look at game boards differently, put them in an art
context.

I wrote a piece some time ago called 'Videogames as Literary Devices'. It
looked at four online literary pieces that involve game at various levels of
subordination of game to art. From total subordination, so that game was
solely literary device, to full conflict where game and the literary existed
in unresolvable but sometimes fruitful tension.

In Jane's work, game is an art device. Game is fully subordinated to art. Or
is it?

ja
http://vispo.com