2024-02-16 10:21:40
Published on February 16, 2024 at 11:21. / Modified on February 16, 2024 at 11:37.
The Swiss Games Museum (MSJ) is located in the castle of La Tour-de-Peilz. Who might imagine that between the stone walls of this historic building there are computers, arcade machines and other board games? However, these objects are indeed at the heart of the exhibition From box to pixel, on view until January 6, 2025, which aims to forge links between ancient games – sometimes more than 5,000 years old – and their contemporary forms, such as video games. The opportunity for the MSJ to also revamp its visual identity, with a new logo which uses the principle of boxes.
“I already had this exhibition in mind when I took office in April 2023,” confides Selim Krichane, director of the MSJ and co-founder of the GameLab, a research group on video games at the University of Lausanne. This is the second time that the museum has offered such a place to video games. The previous time it was with Game Overdedicated to video game aesthetics, during fall 2023.
Interested in this item?
Don’t miss any of our content published daily – subscribe now 9.-CHF the 1st month and access all our articles, files and analyzes
CHECK OFFERS Good reasons to subscribe to Le Temps:
-
Consult all unlimited content on the site and the mobile application
-
Access the paper edition in digital version before 7 a.m.
-
Benefit from exclusive privileges reserved for subscribers
-
Access the archives
Already a subscriber? To log in
1708081549
#Swiss #Games #Museum #antiquity #echoes #video #games
