{"id":1054,"date":"2015-12-16T22:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T22:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:04:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T09:04:28","slug":"c64-covers-as-naive-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"C64 Covers as Na\u00efve Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I visited C64<\/abbr> scener<\/abbr> Goat<\/strong>\/Laxity to pick up his C64 disk covers collection for scanning, there was one pile that he didn’t want to pass on at first. “Why one would want to preserve such primitive disk covers?”, he objected. Still, I took the covers with me, and here they are. While there had been some amazingly skillful disk covers in the previous updates, the ones presented today are admittedly not on par with them. Nevertheless, they are important to get a picture of the C64 scene<\/abbr> beyond its “elite”. For every top swapper<\/abbr> with loads of contacts and “0-day stuff”, there were hundreds of kids swapping<\/abbr> with a few contacts only, dabbling in PD software and old cracks, and yet seeing themselves as part of the same scene community as the “elite”. Obviously, they wanted to have their own disk covers, like the “big ones”. Sometimes, these covers are the only product they left behind. Their somewhat clumsy designs do not need to be judged on terms of “lack of skills” – these covers can be seen as examples of na\u00ef<\/span>ve art, compensating the lack of adherence to any aesthetic rules with a lively will for self-expression. In fact, some of these coves look surprisingly up-to-date, and could just as well be a product of post-modern hipster aesthetics.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Accept<\/em> disk cover by Greenhorn, 1993 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Two Acme<\/em> disk covers by Hanni, 1995 [metadata1<\/a>] [metadata2<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Creatures<\/em> disk cover by Franco, 1992 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Crossdome<\/em> disk cover by Madrom, 1995 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Digital Art<\/em> disk cover by Xonix, 1994 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Dinomania<\/em> disk cover by Greenhorn, 1993 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Disk cover by JJ, 1996 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Error 2000<\/em> disk cover by S.U.C.K., 1996 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Logiker<\/em> disk cover by Logiker, 1993 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Nasti Boy<\/em> disk cover by Nasti Boy, 1994 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Plutonium<\/em> disk cover by Greenhorn, 1993 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Reiners Public Domain<\/em> disk cover, 1994 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Secret Lab Productions<\/em> disk cover by Cosmo, 1990s [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Tiger-Crew<\/em> disk cover by Greenhorn, 1990s [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Tiger-Crew<\/em> disk cover by Greenhorn & Logiker, 1993 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Tiger-Crew<\/em> disk cover by Little John, 1990s [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Tiger-Disk<\/em> #29 disk cover, 1996 [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 World D-Sign<\/em> disk cover by Fan-TC, 1994 [metadata<\/a>]<\/p>\n