Mesko_P2 Mood Board and Creative Brief

Resampled:
How Artists Have Brought
New Life to Nintento’s Classics

This exhibition will be in the EMP museum in Seattle, which hosts exhibitions dealing with pop culture and aims to give its audience a new understanding and interpretation of the ideas behind pop culture. It will feature “alternative art” of iconic Nintendo games—works by fans of the games that bring a new interpretation to the characters and settings than what the games originally offered. Although some of the artists work in traditional mediums, most work in a digital format and draw from traditional figurative painting techniques as well as fantasy and concept art.

The audience will probably be mostly gamers, particularly ones who played the classic Nintendo games growing up. Fantasy and concept artists might also be interested. I intend for the exhibit to not only take the viewer back into the world they remember from the video games, but to also cause them to experience these worlds and characters in a new way. I want it to be at once a nostalgic escape and a challenge to look at the games in a new way, experiencing them as a more tangible and potent form of storytelling and expression.