Buy directly from the artist. Pong – the first video game as minimalist art. Christof Hintze print. Blue in a Square - 250 plus artworks collection.
Buy directly from the artist. Pong – the first video game as minimalist art. Christof Hintze print. Blue in a Square - 250 plus artworks collection.

PONG

PONG is a min­i­mal­ist homage to one of the ear­li­est video games in his­to­ry. A styl­ized form of tennis that could be played on a TV screen. Two pad­dles, one pixel, that’s all it takes to embark on a jour­ney into the past. The abstract com­po­si­tion in bold blue and white reduces the dig­i­tal to its purest essence and turns it into a time­less art object. PONG sym­bol­izes the play­ful ori­gins of dig­i­tal cul­ture. It is part of the art series Blue in a Square, fea­tur­ing 250+ artworks.

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With TV tennis “Pong” an entire­ly new era began: the leap from home TV games to com­put­er games, much like the jump from tele­text to the inter­net. From today’s per­spec­tive it seems unimag­in­able that, despite the modest per­for­mance, we stuck with it so pas­sion­ate­ly. But the oppo­site is true: epic match­es were played, his­toric vic­to­ries were cel­e­brat­ed, hours flew by, and new cham­pi­ons were born. That laid the foun­da­tion for a devel­op­ment that now sur­pass­es any­thing we could have imag­ined back then and we’ll prob­a­bly say the same again every ten years.

The art­work “Pong” also shows how small, simple, and min­i­mal the first step of a great jour­ney can be. It’s avail­able exclu­sive­ly through this Art Store, direct­ly from the artist, no gallery. Just send an email or use the online form; we’ll reply with a com­pre­hen­sive, detailed, no-oblig­a­tion quote.

Canon Fine-Art inkjet print on pre­mi­um Hah­nemüh­le Photo Rag 308 gsm paper. Art­work size freely selec­table: from at least 20 × 20 cm up to 120 × 120 cm. Mount­ed on 2 mm alu­minum Dibond with a white wooden shadow-gap frame. Pricing/quote on request, depend­ing on size and quantity.

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