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Last month, the Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts gallery in Winnipeg exhibited A Slow Year, designed by Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media. The gallery visitors are invited to sit in front of a cathode-ray tube TV which is hooked up to a vintage Atari game console.
“[The piece] draws its inspiration from poetry, from haiku and imagism, the idea of precision in the image,” explains Bogost. “When you program with the Atari, you have to program within these very stringent technical constraints, and I saw a connection with the material constraints of poetry.”
