Robert Nideffer: 12 Years in Azeroth – The Journey Begins

About the exhibition

Robert Nideffer’s 12 Years in Azeroth - The Journey Begins fuses autobiography, fiction, and game design to explore a twelve-year immersion into the online game World of Warcraft. Commissioned for artport, The Journey Begins is the first section of the work and provides an entry to four more parts launched by the artist over the course of 2026. Anchored by a browser-based electronic manuscript tied to the artist-created game world, the complete narrative unfolds from 2006 to 2018 across three av