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Rye Dag Holmboe
Rye Dag Holmboe is a writer and PhD candidate in History of Art at University College, London. He has recently co-authored and co-edited the book JocJonJosch: Hand in Foot, published by the Sion Art Museum, Switzerland (2013). He has recently edited Jolene, an artist's book which brings together the works of the poet Rachael Allen and the photographer Guy Gormley, which will be published later this year. His writings have appeared in The White Review, Art Licks and in academic journals.

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Art and its Functions: Recent Work by Luke Hart

Art

June 2016

Rye Dag Holmboe

Art

June 2016

Luke Hart’s Wall, recently on display at London’s William Benington Gallery, is a single, large-scale sculpture composed of a series of steel tubes held...

Art

February 2015

Filthy Lucre

Rye Dag Holmboe

Art

February 2015

White silhouettes sway against softly gradated backgrounds: blues, purples, yellows and pinks. The painted palm trees are tacky and...

1 ALL SQUARES RESIDE IN THE HUMAN BREAST In 2007 game designer and Second Life CEO Rod Humble wrote a video game called The Marriage[1] The player’s goal in The Marriage is to prevent two squares from shrinking or fading out while circles drift around them Moving the mouse over the shapes has curious but consistent effects on the size and transparency of the squares Its abstruseness immediately brands it an ‘art’ game I don’t have a problem with calling it art, unlike Roger Ebert, who raised the hackles of many a techie by claiming that video games could not be art   There are two related issues that technology raises for art: nonlinearity and interactivity Interactivity creates more possibilities for nonlinearity Nonlinearity demands increased interactivity Yet it is the formal implications of these two factors that cause the problems   Humble’s game wouldn’t have necessarily exposed these problems, except that Humble rather guilelessly posted his interpretation of the game, which I excerpt here:   The game is my expression of how a marriage feels The blue and pink squares represent the masculine and feminine of a marriage They have differing rules which must be balanced to keep the marriage going The circles represent outside elements entering the marriage This can be anything Work, family, ideas, each marriage is unique and the players’ response should be individual The size of each square represents the amount of space that person is taking up within the marriage So for example we often say that one person’s ego is dominating a marriage or perhaps a large personality […] The transparency of the squares represents how engaged that person is in the marriage When one person fades out of the marriage and becomes emotionally distant then the marriage is over Your controls reveal the agency of the game You are only capable of making the squares move towards each other at the same time or removing a circle by sacrificing the size of the pink square You are playing the agency of Love trying to make the system

Contributor

August 2014

Rye Dag Holmboe

Contributor

August 2014

Rye Dag Holmboe is a writer and PhD candidate in History of Art at University College, London. He has...

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October 2012

Pressed Up Against the Immediate

Rye Dag Holmboe

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October 2012

The author Philip Pullman recently criticised the overuse of the present tense in contemporary literature, a criticism he stretched...

Existere: Documenting Performance Art

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September 2012

David Gothard

Jo Melvin

John James

Rye Dag Holmboe

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September 2012

The following conversation was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in May 2012. The event took place almost a year after a...
Gabriel Orozco: Cosmic Matter and Other Leftovers

Art

March 2011

Rye Dag Holmboe

Art

March 2011

‘To live,’ writes Walter Benjamin, ‘means to leave traces’. As one might expect, Benjamin’s observation is not without a certain melancholy. Traces are lost...

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Interview

June 2014

Diane Williams: Two Stories and an Interview

Harriet Pittard

Interview

June 2014

Editor’s Note: By way of an introduction, we’ve included two previously unpublished stories by Diane Williams, ‘Beauty, Love and...

Interview

Issue No. 1

Interview with Manfred Mohr

Alice Hattrick

Interview

Issue No. 1

Lines of varying thickness rotate on black. On the screen beside, tilted away from the first, is a slide...

fiction

April 2014

Spins

Eley Williams

fiction

April 2014

Spider n. (Skinner thinks this word softened from spinder or spinner, from spin; Junius, with his usual felicity, dreams...

 

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