“PLAY CELLS” 2016 by Nicole Cerrone, at router-gallery Berlin. Curated by Chiara Passa.

Dear friends & colleagues,

I am glad to present “ PLAY CELLS” 2016 by the emergent artist Nicole Cerrone, at router-gallery Berlin. Curated by Chiara Passa.

Play Cells is an ongoing series of digital artworks in form of animations re-elaborating recorded video-games in order to show how their visual and interface is iconographic in a deep and often unconscious way. Every cell representing each one a very specific game genre, has stripped each video-game of narrative and clear graphics; those things that are commonly considered essential to define its intrinsic language. The four abstract animations (Play Cells: CC, D, NMS and TW), highlight how the suggestion of a specific color combination, movement or visual input is enough to recall a certain gaming/real experience, since video games are more than a mere entertainment product, but a complex language not relegated only to gamers but part of our cultural heritage. Play Cells, it’s not about linking every cell to the game it originates from or label it to its genre, but it is the ability to re-experience intuitively through the bare language that is so strong rooted in mass culture.

Best regards, Chiara Passa

Nicole Cerrone (Rome, 1990) is an emerging artist graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome. She is strongly influenced by the Post Internet aesthetics and thinks that computer is an extension of her thought. Play Cells is the result of a research project that Nicole has produced during a semester, in order to discuss her B.A. degree thesis with Chiara Passa.

Chiara Passa (Rome, 1973) is a visual artist working and combining different media and technologies in a wide range production. Since 2009 she run a curatorial net-art project well known as The Widget Art Gallery.

Play Cells will be hosted by the router.gallery in Berlin http://router.gallery/ from February 22nd to March 21st 2017. Venue is February 22nd from 8 pm to 10 pm. router.gallery location: Gerichtsstrasse 23, Hof 5, 13347 Wedding, Berlin. coordinates: 52,5449816, 13,3742252