Andy Malone

"Conceptual Art You Can Play With" (hyperallergic.com)

Play Room, an exhibition of interactive sculptures.

Ex Cross, "Less physical, but more conceptual and endlessly challenging, is the board game “Ex Cross.” Along the back row of a modified checkerboard, players line up wooden game pieces, each engrained with an X on one side and a plus sign on the other. In three-movement turns, players navigate the board, trying to reach safety at the opposite end of the board. Each piece can at any time flip to alter its capacity to move. Malone used this game as an opportunity to discuss with his daughter, Julia — one of the leading experts at his games — the opposing philosophies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and those of Malcolm X. As Malone sees it, each of these civil rights leaders was locked into a singular kind of movement, but ultimately an individual has better options when able to think flexibly." (hyperallergic.com)

The use of games to articulate a message is something that closely relates to my own practice.