Last week I advised culture loving gamers to head to Norwich for the excellent Aurora animation festival, where art collective Igloo was showing off its ballet/videogame mash-up SwanQuake. This week, I suggest you put aside a day between December 15 and February 23 to visit Exeter's trailblazing Spacex gallery. Here you'll find an exhibition by New York-based artist Cory Arcangel, a self-confessed 'computer geek' who hacks old office applications and videogames to create new works.
One of the pieces on show is I Shot Andy Warhol, a hacked version of the 1984 lightgun game, Hogan's Alley. Players take on the role of feminist activist Valerie Solanas who once attempted to assassinate the pop art genius - your job is to shoot him whenever he appears on screen, carefully avoiding other figures such as the pope, Colonel Sanders and Flavor Flav. I'm not sure what the message is, I just know it's delivered with retro visuals and a bizarre mix of pop culture icons and, in the end, that's what matters.
