Basquiat meets Mario Brothers? Digital poet Jason Nelson on the meaning of art games

Guardian UK - The phrase 'art game' means very different things to different people. True, some dismiss the whole idea as pretentious nonsense, the cynical appropriation of a mass entertainment platform by opportunist design students. But we'll ignore those views for now.

For others, it's about the sometimes disturbing experimental games produced by the likes of Jonatan Söderström and Jason Rohrer. Titles such as Clean Asia! and Passage have the trappings of sophisticated commercial releases, but often comment on the game development process or use game structures to explore much darker themes and ideas.   Read more.

Mendel Art Gallery: Digital Arts Group Pulls Out Bid

The StarPhoenix (Canada) - The group backing a digital arts centre for the Mendel Art Gallery building has pulled out of the running to occupy the space, leaving only the children's museum bidding.

The organizers behind the Frederick Mendel Digital Arts Centre of Excellence said Friday after a summer of consideration, the city's concept for the building and the Kinsmen Park area doesn't fit its plans.

"We still want our project to go forward in some form," said Anand Ramayya, owner of Karma Film, a Saskatoonbased production company involved in the bid.  Read more.

Analyst: While HP Reassesses Its Options, You Should Reassess HP

Read Write Enterprise - It's often said that business leaders make their companies in their own image. In that case, no two images ever stood in starker contrast with one another than the Hewlett-Packard of former CEO Mark Hurd, and the Hewlett-Packard of present CEO Léo Apotheker. Whether for better or worse, HP is becoming a different company than the one many enterprise clients signed their contracts with just a few years ago.

That fact has led one Forrester analyst to recommend this to his firm's clients: not that they dump HP, but that they make a careful re-assessment of their business relationship with the firm, taking into consideration whether a contingency plan for switching vendors might be in order.  Read more.

The Art of Imaging

DAN - Architectural and Design Photography: The Art of Imaging is graphics and fine art print exhibition co-hosted by The Washington Design Center and Dodge-Chrome, a premier print-services company in Washington DC.  It's a six-week exhibition

The six-week exhibit will include innovative display and “environmental décor,” in which photographic images are printed on a interesting and unusual substrate, including acrylic panels, metal and wood.  Read more.

HP exits the PC market

Wall Street Journal -Hewlett Packard Co.'s planned exit of the personal-computer business will leave Dell Inc. as the last big American supplier of both PCs and other hardware for corporations, as companies find it increasingly difficult to focus both on consumer and commercial sales.

But Dell isn't expected to follow suit with its own spinoff. The Round Rock, Texas, company on Friday argued that H-P's move largely validated a strategy it was already pursuing. Read more.

Cybersounds Electronic Music series :Boston Cyberarts teams with Atlantic Wharf

DAN ; Boston Cyberarts has partnered with Atlantic Wharf to present Cybersounds.  It's a new series of free concerts, which explores "the creative and cultural potential in the convergence of music, sound and technology to Boston's Waterfront."  Read more.

Cultural Bits: Empowering Art of the Future

Asia One - Here's an unusual art exhibition where you, the audience, can help "create" the works of art on display.

Art connects with science in the fascinating genre of digital media art, which uses a combination of video, computer animations and interactive art to express concepts and ideas.

For instance, in the exhibit, The Art of Zen 2011, you can pick up digitized 3-D features such as mountains, water, trees, flowers and man and place them on the screen showing sansui, a traditional landscape ink painting dating back to 5th Century China. An original landscape is this created.