Yoko Ono's Chess Set

Alistair looks at chessboards created as interactive art pieces, and relates them to his own experiences making interactive art and performance from chess.

 

Tune in for Takako Saito's smellable chess pieces, Horses Running Endlessly, an egg becoming God, and of course Yoko Ono's chess set where all the pieces are white.

 

Links from the episode:

Holly Gramazio - How Not to Play: https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/XeEL6REAAB8AtgaS

The Museum of Modern Art's blog on All White Chess Set: https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/07/14/notes-on-yoko-onos-white-chess-set/

Critical Play by Mary Flanagan: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/critical-play

Now Play This, an annual games festival: https://nowplaythis.net/nptathome2020/

Critical Distance is my go-to source of games reading, mentioned in the episode: https://www.critical-distance.com/

 

My own work cited:

Pawns: https://www.alistairaitcheson.com/games/pawns.html

Playing Pawns against Twitch Chat: https://youtu.be/G-nXU3T5zuc

Playing Pawns against Twitch Chat for Now Play This: https://youtu.be/2GlQ2K6Vv20

Codex Bash: https://www.alistairaitcheson.com/games/codexbash.html

 

Music credits:

Kevin McCloud: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler (Creative Commons Attribution licence)

Kai Engel: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/ (Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial licence)

Lee Maddeford: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Maddeford/Instrumentals_1/ (Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial licence)