
Ok, so we’re not sure if this video is actually coded or if it’s purely a stop-motion animation composition, but we think that’s kind of the point Varanese was trying to make.

MY DESK IS 8-BIT from alex varanese on Vimeo. His piece Super Mario Clouds (above) is his most famous work and features a Super Mario cartridge where everything but the clouds has been erased. While the assortment of works below has got us yearning for our old Gameboy, we also gotta admit, Nintendo never looked or sounded quite this good:Īrcangel is one of the best-known and most highly regarded artists of this genre and an early collaborator of Davis’s (in 1998 they founded BEIGE, a programming ensemble together). We decided to do a round-up of some of our favorite 8-bit inspired artists and projects.
