Playful repurposing of digital technology through sculpture

Game ? Advance, by Alex Custodio, is an inspiring project that repurposes digital artefacts through sculpture. The aim is both to provide a critique of “how hardware and software reproduce dominant ideologies around gender and power”, and to imagine an alternative history for Nintendo’s handheld. Alex Custodio addresses the following questions “What does it mean to de- or re-gender a Game Boy Advance? How do we reconcile old technologies to move towards a better future that welcomes a broad range of subjectivities?”.