Read the following articles on experimentation:
Attridge, Derek. “What Do We Mean by Experimental Art?” Angles. New Perspectives on the Anglophone World, Société Des Anglicistes De L'Enseignement Supérieur, 1 Apr. 2018, https://journals.openedition.org/angles/962.
Blanco, Sebastian, et al. “Experimental Gameplay Workshop.” Experimental Gameplay Workshop, 26 Nov. 2021, http://www.experimental-gameplay.org/.
Paragraph 1: Write a long paragraph with your initial impressions of the material and what jumped out at you. Try to address both resources. i.e. Did you agree/disagree with EGW definitions or game selections? Did something made you think differently about your practice? Did something annoy or upset you? Was there something that inspired you?
Paragraph 2: Pick a game example listed on the EGW website that you haven’t heard about. Play the game and write your impressions in a long paragraph. Be prepared to justify how you feel it is or “isn’t” experimental. Be prepared to present the game to the class along with your impressions on it. Use video or an image to clarify specific features.
The first article, "What Do We Mean by Experimental Art?"
written by Derek Attridge, the author described six different ways to understand "Experimental Art." He put the term experimental next to Inventive and explained how they are interwoven together.
I agree that The experimental work of art is highly innovative in form, but it bears the marks of the artist's trial-and-error procedures; sometimes, it does not get appreciated by many people and remains outside the mainstream of artistic production. In my opinion, unfinished work cannot be considered as experimental work, though it can be a trial run.
Both of the resources address the fact that there is no clear-cut or straightforward definition of what can and cannot be called experimental…
My initial impression when I started reading the material on experimental art was that it was vague and indecisive. An imprecise term that sometimes means something while in a different context can mean something else, but slowly and surely, throughout the reading, we reach the conclusion that we do not apply the term in a consistent manner. In the article 'What Do We Mean by Experimental Art?' the author approaches the question through 6 different directions. We explored this direction by asking questions what is experimental art, do we follow the
The scientific model or is it a matter of degree of innovation or an artistic gamble that may or may not pay off, is the emphasis on the size…
"It seems to me, therefore, that all art worthy of the name is experimental: all strong artists are working at the limits of what can be achieved, and all such artists are taking risks, engaging in a process of trial-and-error, going down a road without knowing where it leads."
I personally loved this take on the defination of experimental art except, I think it's not restricted to 'strong artists' since everyone starts out as beginners and we have some of the greatest experimental art, games and literature from legends not once they became masters in their art, but when they were trying to be.
I personally disagree with the following nothing mentioned by the author, "An artist who uses a…
After the reading of Derek Attridge’s “What Do We Mean by Experimental Art?”, the author’s conclusion of what is experimental art, at first, felt unresolved given that I come from a science background where operationalization of a concept is crucial in moving forward to exploring it. However, I was impressed by the variety of perspectives and counterpoints addressed– the efforts the author put into defining an experimental art have proved its complexity which leaves me acknowledging the conclusion that they came up with even though it was not revelational or groundbreaking. Not only that, but I also appreciated that the author explores the definition of experimental art in a trial-and-error approach, which was exactly what the author was trying to…
Although the definition of the word “experimental”, or even solely by the word’s appearance, often tightly relates to scientific experiments—an idea, a theory and belief, or someone’s hypothesis of something that haven’t been tested or experimented out, I personally wouldn’t think of scientific experiments when I am looking at the term experimental art. This is the intriguing part of thinking as I was reading the article. The identification of the term “experimental” does involve a process of testing out or proving something previously theorized or believed, but as what is stated in the article, experimental art is more about going beyond the traditional innovation of something previously creative and breaking that creation’s fundamental construction. The way I interpret experimental art…