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RESOURCE: ART JOURNAL, SUMMER 2020

Matteo

02 Jul 2020 — 1 min read

The Summer 2020 issue of Art Journal is now available in print and online and it features an outstanding selection of essays and articles on the relationship between art and video games, including contributions from guest editor Soraya Murray, Tracy Fullerton, Dorothy R. Santos, Eugénie Shinkle, Alenda Y. Chang, Hava Aldouby, and COLL.EO, i.e. Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti, with a project titled The Long Road of Silicon.

The cover cover features Walden Pond, from Walden, a game (USC Game Innovation Lab, 2017), video game, designed by Tracy Fullerton (screenshot by Tracy Fullerton).

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