Results tagged “spaceinvaders”

Yes, even the extra terrestrials can't try to make something of themselves in the East Village without being told to GTFO. Cooper Union is closing in on completion of the new building for its School of Engineering, located on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets and designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis. But one tagger had other ideas for the future plans of the spot Curbed recently called CU's "new mindfuck of a building."

Artist Douglas Stanley has pulled his piece from a German art exhibit where he recreated the 9/11 attacks with images from the classic video game Space Invaders. Stanley was facing the possibility of legal action from the game's maker and claims that he received death threats because of the work. Stanley, who lives in France, called the American response immature compared to "other parts of the world." He said that he was a saddened that Americans "as a people remain so profoundly unable to process this event." The installation had been widely condemned by everyone from victims' families to video gamers.

Kotaku feels it's "Too Soon" to see this art installation of classic arcade game Space Invaders showing the Space Invaders destroy the World Trade Center. Apparently the artist Douglas Edric Stanley was invited to show his "somewhat ambiguous juxtaposition of this mythical game and the historical events of September 11th" for the 30th anniversary of the game. Stanley thinks Space Invaders is "a social tale that can be related to historical tales without losing its poetic power."

Space Invaders, by Absolutewade on Flickr. Tag yours "Gothamist" if you want us to use them!