flomm in jersey

Ra­di­a­tion un­der­ground and in the sky
An­i­mals and birds who live near­by are dying
Ohh Flomm in Jer-sey, ahh things ain’t what they used to be
—Lyrics by Mar­vin Gaye, sor­ta, almost-ish

Flomm is all about his­to­ry.

And what bet­ter place for Flomm, then to show up in a gallery ad­ja­cent to the archive of RCA-founder David Sarnoff – one of the char­ac­ters (not nec­es­sary the hero) in one of my fa­vorite doc­u­men­taries, Ken Burns’ Em­pire of the Air: The Men Who Made Ra­dio (1992). (The dial of an Arm­strong FM re­ceiv­er ap­pears some­where in the FLOMM! game – blink and you’ll miss it.)

Now open at the Art Gallery at the Col­lege of New Jer­sey is A Palette of Pix­els: The Evolv­ing Art of Video Games.

The ex­hi­bi­tion fo­cus­es on video games as a medi­um of artis­tic ex­pres­sion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion – and amongst the more than 20 games se­lect­ed is FLOMM! THE BAT­TLE For MOD­ERN 1923 – my five year pro­cras­ti­na­tion project that is the start­ing point for this over­ar­ch­ing flomm­world I now inhabit.

They asked me for my notebooks
flashed thru my mind,
do I even know where they are??

I’ve been thru a fore­clo­sure, moved twice and most of what I own is scat­tered be­tween stor­age clos­ets and the coun­ty dump. Luck­i­ly, most of the pre­lim­i­nary art­work was in one place: An or­ange IKEA box that I’d man­aged to keep undamaged. 

Didn’t even re­al­ize I’d re­mem­bered to wedge all the some­what-im­por­tant stuff in­side. Stuff I usu­al­ly toss away.

High res­o­lu­tion Flomm game im­agery – and a large pile of Flomm swag (from stick­ers to book­marks) – are also part of the show. Oth­er games fea­tured in­clude The Ban­ner Saga, The Dream Ma­chine, Flower, God of War, Jour­ney, Kata­mari Dama­cy, Meta­mor­pha­bet, Nais­sanceE, Oka­mi, Pas­sage, Spate, among others.

A Palette of Pix­els: The Evolv­ing Art of Video Games runs 21 Oc­to­ber thru 13 De­cem­ber 2015 at the Art Gallery at the Col­lege of New Jer­sey, AIMM Build­ing, 2000 Pen­ning­ton Road, Ew­ing, New Jer­sey – with a lec­ture and con­cert planned for Fri­day 30 Oc­to­ber 2015. 

De­tails here. A cat­a­logue is also avail­able, con­tact the gallery for more info.

Many thanks to Emi­ly Croll, Christ Ault and their team for find­ing FLOMM! and dis­play­ing our work. Any­one who takes snaps, please tag @flommus and we’d love to repost.

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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