Matteo Bittanti is the co-author of GameScenes, art in the Age of Videogames with Domenico Quaranta. This website, which explores game-based artistic production, distributions, and discussion, was introduced in 2005.
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Erwin Wurm: Life Beat Soft Melt Digital Twin Edition Ludwig Museum Koblenz Kuratiert von Prof. Dr. Beate Reifenscheid und Jérôme Sans Digital Twin Edition und AI Art Mediation: Walter’s Cube Erwin Wurm’s Life Beat Soft Melt, shown at Ludwig Museum Koblenz from 5 September to 23 November 2025,
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Photography, Video Game, Landscape (Editions IDPURE, 2025), 128 pages, 30 × 22.5 cm, 76 photographs, French/English; with contributions by Claus Gunti and Matteo Bittanti, plus a conversation with Nadine Franci. Pascal Greco’s new monograph, Photography, Video Game, Landscape, extends a practice that has steadily shifted in-game photography away
GAME ART
Vojtěch Luksch’s new solo exhibition, Artefacts, takes place at Okraje Gallery (Žižkova 250/2, 390 01 Tábor, Czech Republic) between November 28 2025 and January 7 2026. The first thing Vojtěch Luksch shows you is a weapon. A first-person shotgun rises from the lower edge. Bodies leak into snow.
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Monument Valley: The Trilogy National Videogame Museum Castle House, Angel Street, Sheffield, S3 8LN, United Kingdom 19 December 2025 – 4 January 2026 This December, the National Videogame Museum (NVM) turns its galleries into a walkable thought experiment, hosting Monument Valley: The Trilogy, a showcase devoted to ustwo games’ celebrated puzzle
GAME ART
What stays with you is the noise. The image? Not so much. After all, most of the screen is occupied by negative space: a 16:9 slab of black, as if the monitor had nodded off, punctured by a few pale specks that resolve, if you pay attention, into bodies.
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Side Quest for the Real: live action, art, and social fictions in Geneva December 3–21, 2025 Curated by Christian Bili and Samuel Wagen-Magnon Le Commun, Geneva, Switzerland For the Win (FTW) presents the second edition of Art, jeu & société, an ambitious initiative dedicated to artistic practices engaging with
PAINTING
A dark-skinned avatar, seen from behind in a white tank top, sits exactly where the polished concrete floor meets a painted horizon. In front of him the city has slipped its grid. Freeway ramps float at odd angles, billboards hang without supports, staircases rise into nothing. Between fragments of stucco
GAME ART
Camilo Restrepo’s Space invaders 1 (2024) and Space invaders 1418 (2024) lift the visual grammar of Taito’s 1978 arcade shooter and plug it into the long, unfinished story of Colombia’s narco-wars and their ecological afterlives. Both large vertical works were presented in the solo exhibition Cocaine Hippos
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Accidents digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 17’, 2025, Hong Kong created by Edwin Lo December 5–18 2025 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org Set inside the simulated Hong Kong of Sleeping Dogs (2012), Accidents is an observational machinima about a city that keeps running through failure. Lo
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Designing the Infinite: Virtual Worldbuilding in Art & Gaming December 6, 2025–April 12, 2026 California Center for the Arts Museum At the California Center for the Arts, Escondido 340 North Escondido Boulevard Escondido, California 92025 Designing the Infinite: Virtual Worldbuilding in Art & Gaming brings together an international group
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AI and the Paradox of Agency March 13, 2026–January 17, 2027 Opening: March 13, 5pm–12am, with talks and presentations, tours, workshop, DJ and bar Bildmuseet at Umeå University Östra Strandgatan 30B Umeå, 903 33 Sweden From March 13, 2026 to January 17, 2027, Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden turns
CALL FOR ARTWORKS
Briar Dickey, Max Haiven, Konstanze N’Guessan, Sarah Thorne, Thomas Spies invite submissions for a special issue of Eludamos titled What are Antifascist Games? Below is the full call for papers: “In many places around the world, the fascist threat is rising. Far right, neonationalist and ultra-conservative parties, politicians, and