Edge Online ran a small feature piece this past Monday on artist Antonin Fourneau’s new multimedia project called Oterp, which appears not on canvas or film but on Sony’s PSP hardware. Oterp creates different sounds and music depending on its audience’s physical location using a GPS to track them. Fourneau’s creation, as Edge points out, joins the ranks of i am 8-bit and Reformat the Planet as evidence of videogames’ growing influence on humanity’s creative endeavors. And that’s great. It’s wonderful to look at how the life-imitates-art-imitates-life cycle is incorporating a still-young medium. It’s inspiring to see games inspire. That is, unless you spend a lot of time on the internet. Then you see what videogames have done to people’s minds. Especially Japan’s mind.
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