I spent part of today assembling and testing Guru Meditation cartridges. Some are bound for collectors, but I’m also readying one to ship off to Slovenia for exhibition at Pixxelpoint 2009, the 10th International New Media Art Festival. The theme of the show is “Once Upon a Time in the West,” and it focuses on work made for “obsolete” platforms. You can read more about the exhibition at at pixxelpoint.org.

As a morsel of a preview, I’ve included here a shot of my seven year-old helping me test a Guru Meditation cart. I’ve requested a period-appropriate television for the exhibition, but there’s something lovely about seeing the old Atari heavy-sixer coupled to my 52″ LCD TV.

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published November 29, 2009