The Artist Is Present Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/the-artist-is-present/ Stories about Culture Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:36:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg The Artist Is Present Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/the-artist-is-present/ 32 32 The Audience Can Kill https://unwinnable.com/2015/01/26/the-audience-can-kill/ Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:32:42 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=52482 The following is a reprint from Unwinnable Weekly Issue Twenty-Nine. If you enjoy what you read, please consider purchasing the issue or subscribing.  ——— There is no thing new under the sun.” A trite Biblical verse that, in this day and age, seems quaint and out of touch. And yet, just as those very words have been repeated since they were first etched into paper, the debate over the impact of art has become a social deja vu, reincarnations emerging with each generation, shifting as new mediums are born. I never used to get performance art. Seemed like a bunch of pretentious hooey for bored college students lacking any

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]]> The Value of Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment https://unwinnable.com/2012/02/09/the-value-of-lets-play-ancient-greek-punishment/ https://unwinnable.com/2012/02/09/the-value-of-lets-play-ancient-greek-punishment/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:01:58 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=26947 Steve Haske returns to Unwinnable to discuss what can be learned from games that are, in fact, unwinnable.

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