SITE: Minecraft + Discover a Virtual Universe of Art

[Ryan Goble]

Discover a Virtual Universe of Art

The open-world video game of Minecraft offers a new activity for its players to explore: interactive artworks presented by the Tate. The initiative, known as “Tate Worlds,” is the result of collaboration between Tate and a group of Minecraft artists and builders known as “The Common People” to refashion artworks from the Tate collection into Minecraft’s virtual universe. Three custom-made, unalterable maps are available to download from Tate’s website. The maps feature the Minecraft versions of André Derain’s The Pool of London (1906), Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s The Soul of the Soulless City (‘New York – an Abstraction’) (1920) and Peter Blake’s The Toy Shop(1962). Five more Minecraft maps, to be released in 2015, will include works by John Singer Sargent, Cornelia Parker and John Martin.

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[Arthur L. Finkle]

GREAT potential.  Needs to be open source.