Welcome to MOMA
Glad you could come and check out the progress we are making building the Museum of Moving Art. Even thought there are currently no exhibitions (as we are still developing the platform), please feel free to look around - there's actually lots to see and get involved in. Why not create an account and help make MOMA a great place to make, play and share.
But what is it?
Unlike most museums, MOMA doesn't exist as a spacious public building, instead it is major international public artwork - somewhat ethereal and (as its name suggests) moving from place to place. Originally conceived as street art with theatrical tendencies, the Museum of Moving Art has evolved into a composite artwork - an artwork comprised of other artworks.
Figuring large in MOMA is performance & visual art, story-telling, an expansive set of role-playing-games (RPGs) built around a central narrative, physical board games, and video games (particularly flight simulation and open world co-op).
By means of arts participation, MOMA seeks to explore the intersections between real life, fantasy and the digital realm in fun and inspiring ways. We are also keen to facilitate real-life social interaction, and to use technology to bring people together for full, safe and rewarding experiences - rather than enabling addiction & social isolation in the virtual (a real and present danger posed by the rise of the new technocratic oligarchies and the seemingly unchecked emergence of surveillance capitalism).
How do you play?
This wiki brings people together to play games that involve exploring and developing characters and the story world which they inhabit. Some games also involve the making and exhibiting of artworks.
Entry level games allow beginning players to have fun by exploring a variety of roles, activities and story-lines. In more advanced levels of the physical stream, gameplay is directed to the creation and placement of pop-up installations and structures which have the capacity to move. This is co-ordinated by some players acting as curators.
You don't have to be an artist to play at MOMA, but if you want to, you can have fun pretending.
The real-life role playing and story telling also intersects with the digital realm through addons and mods to pre-existing video games with the possibility of completely new digital games developed within the conceptual framework presented here. Digital art is also being created, curated and exhibited here at this wiki. To start playing now, create an account here and start exploring the links on the left. You will find other players currently online at our Discord server.
Get Off to some Flying Art
Currently good progress is being made researching the possibility of integrating the dramatic and cinematic potential of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 into the MOMA story world. It looks very promising!
Also the aviation theme is being developed as part of a physical table-top board game called The World of Art, with a virtual version to be played online at the https://tabletopia.com/ platform.
The more you play, the deeper you go. Find out how famous aviator Amelia Earhardt found her way into the MOMA story world, and how she is honoured on the Island of Patonga.
PLAY NOW: take the Random Image challenge
Would you like to have your image on that wall on the welcome page of MOMA?
Can you use layers, crop and re-size in Photoshop, GIMP or some other image editing app?
Watch this space. A simply digital art challenge coming soon ;-)