Game Transfer Phenomena in a New York exhibition

The Chart Gallery in New York City is currently exhibiting the installation “Game Transfer Phenomena” by Joshua Caleb Weibley, created in collaboration with Jordan Dykstra.

“Game Transfer Phenomena consists of 7 crates made to hold objects derived from Tetris’s 7 Tetromino shapes. The installation takes its name from repetitive gameplay’s influence on spatial reasoning and the visual/auditory hallucinations it induces. 

GTP shapes how one sizes up and evaluates the world similarly to the way commercial and critical art worlds do when one is immersed in them long enough. It is a subtle alteration of perception such that congruent forms — like sofas 69’d into the back of a moving van — reveal themselves and imagined sound effects seem to reward achievement. 

The exhibition employs GTP as a multivalent metaphor weaving shipping and storage logistics with desperate contortions under systemic duress. The crates are shown open and closed, empty and full, hiding or divulging their cargo”.

Source: Website of the installation.