Free Software Art

Today Estación Futuro (the Intermediae at Matadero Madrid project about games and play) opened officially with our first project, an exhibition of Kenta Cho’s more straightforward SHMUPs called Los sueños euclideos de Kenta Cho (The Euclidean Dreams of Kenta Cho), all of them under a FreeBSD license as curated by Yours Truly.

The Dharma Initiative's Play and Game Station

The project is much more than a straightforward art+games exhibition: it is also configured as an entertainment arcade for the kids in the neighbourhood (who were spending most of their afternoons using the web-connected computers to play online games anyway), and it plans to encompass other game-related activities, some of them regarding videogames (like OpenArsGames), some of them regarding real-life games with no interposed computers.

Estación Futuro operates from a geodesic dome in a repurposed abbatoir.

If you don’t know Kenta Cho, now’s your opportunity. Of late he has been working in flash, so you can just head over to the page for his gaming alter ego ABA Games and start playing, or download windows versions of the games we are showcasing at Estacion Futuro. Some of his games can also be found on Xbox and iPhone (that’s one of the advantages of free licenses: other people port your stuff for you).

If you are using a modern free software distro, you could be playing the exhibition’s selection and several other games in a matter of seconds, all thanks to your friendly package manager. And to your friendly packager, which in my case means this is the third post in a row that I have to mention Miriam Ruiz.

Or you could come over and play with us at Estacion Futuro. The Kenta Cho selection will be up until September.