Darkgame


Eddo Stern is a California-based artist and developer known for creating experimental video games, game art, and machinima-based works.

Artist Bio

Darkgame is an extrasensory computer game based on the experience of communication and play under the stresses of sensory deprivation and sense isolation. By manipulating the scope of sensory immersion and multiplayer interaction, Darkgame is carefully designed to accommodate sighted and hearing players as well as deaf and/or blind players in the same virtual game world. Through accessible yet balanced game design, Darkgame challenges and experiments with the commercially established range of computer game genres.


Discipline
Digital Media, Games
Award Year
2002
Status

Completed

Eddo Stern

Eddo Stern

Lancaster, CA

Eddo Stern is a California-based artist and developer known for creating experimental video games, game art and machinima-based works. Stern was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and lives in Los Angeles. He is the creator of the acclaimed short film Sheik Attack. Since 1998, his work has been shown at The Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, The Walker Art Center, The Ludwig Museum, ARGOS in Brussels, and The Tate Gallery Liverpool. His interests are in new modes of narrative and documentary, and cross-cultural and cross-media representation in film, computer games, and the internet. In 2000 he started C-Level, a cooperative new media lab and art space in LA’s Chinatown. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Art and Integrated Media from California Institute for the Arts in 2000.