In the May 21, 2014 issue of the Hyperallergic Newsletter (http:\/\/hyperallergic.com), Jillian Steinhauer reports that Grayson Earle has created an online game called \u201cAi Weiwei Whoops!\u201d (http:\/\/aiweiwhoops.net) in which you are invited to drop and break vases whose digital images look like Ai Weiwei\u2019s painted Han Dynasty urns. When you enter the field of the game, your mouse arrow becomes a vase which a simple click sends crashing to the ground. At that point another vase pops up. When the vases hit the floor, they make a shattering sound and send pixels flying. For each broken vase, you rack up \u201capproximate property damage\u201d of somewhere between $900,000 and $1.1 million. While this game is fun and cathartic (I tried it), is it desensitizing us to the tragedy of the willful destruction of works of art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the May 21, 2014 issue of the Hyperallergic Newsletter (http:\/\/hyperallergic.com), Jillian Steinhauer reports that Grayson Earle has created an online game called \u201cAi Weiwei Whoops!\u201d (http:\/\/aiweiwhoops.net) in which you are invited to drop and break vases whose digital images look like Ai Weiwei\u2019s painted Han Dynasty urns. When you enter the field of the … Continue reading “It is a fun game to play, but is it desensitizing us?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":10066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}