Beyond the Videogame: A Gallery Talk with Dan Solberg
Schedule
Thu Mar 19 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
522 W Short Street, Lexington, KY, United States, Kentucky 40507 | Lexington, KY
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Meg Mitchell's A Fragile Unfolding exhibition centers around an interactive virtual environment displayed on a curved widescreen monitor, controlled with an Xbox gamepad. As videogames continue to become more culturally pervasive and the tools to make them employed to increasingly disparate ends, the age-old question about whether videogames are art has taken a backseat to artists like Mitchell simply working in, around, or vaguely next to games – no label required. This talk will focus on situating Mitchell's A Fragile Unfolding within the larger spectrum of videogames and art-that-can-be-understood-as-having-something-to-do-with-games. Dan Solberg is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator and freelance writer/designer living in Lexington, KY. He's interested in the ways videogames and games-adjacent projects blend arts and technology into wildly divergent outcomes. Dan currently works as Curator of Education at the UK Art Museum, devising and leading interpretive programs and organizing education-forward exhibitions. He previously worked as an educator at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC and also served as lead editor and designer of DED LED, a compilation of videogame criticism originally published between 2013-2016. Dan holds a studio art MFA from Washington University in Saint Louis.
For more information about Dan Solberg: https://dansolberg.com/home.html
For more information about Meg Mitchell: https://www.megmitchell.com
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