The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Video games and robots: V&A reveals programme
Six-month display to showcase Dundee’s video game design heritage next year
V&A Dundee’s 2019 exhibition programme will explore the groundbreaking design behind video games and robotics.
The £80 million Dundee museum, which has welcomed more than 250,000 visitors since it opened in September, revealed its 2019 programme of visiting exhibitions yesterday morning.
It will celebrate the design and culture of contemporary video games with the V&A’s spectacular show – Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt, which will run from April 20 to September 8 next year.
The show is currently on display at the V&A’s London museum.
It explores the complexity of video games as one of the most important design fields of our time.
There are an estimated 2.2 billion people who play video games worldwide, from commuters playing on mobile phones to eSports professionals watched by tens of thousands of spectators.
The exhibition focuses on video games designed and developed since the mid-2000s, when major technological advancements transformed the way games are designed and played.
From multi-million-dollar blockbuster titles to smaller independent games and the work of DIY artists from a hacker/maker culture, the exhibition explores current international debates as well as the creative contributions made to game culture by the players themselves.
V&A Dundee will then go on to examine the current boom in robotics with the exhibition Hello, Robot: Design between Human and Machine, which will be shown for the first time in the UK.
It will run from November 2 2019 to February 23 2020.
The touring exhibition investigates the science and fiction of robots and looks at how they are changing the world.
It explores how popular culture has shaped perception of robots and artificial humans, the impact such technology has had on industry and the blurring of the boundaries between man and machine.
The exhibition shows the impact robots have already had on our world.
Philip Long, director of V&A Dundee, said: “Dundee is a city at the forefront of video game design and innovation and we are very much looking forward to working with partners and creative collaborators to deliver a unique programme to accompany our next show.”