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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art bit – Contemporary Art & Indie Game Culture – #6: Game Playing Society runs from 16 May to 12 July 2026 at Hotel Anteroom Kyoto, Gallery 9.5, 7 Higashikujo Aketa-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto. Opening hours are 10:00–20:00. Admission is free. A reception and workshop are planned for 16
MAGAZINE
Kepler Interactive has launched Reset Magazine Issue 1, a large-format print publication devoted to video games as contemporary culture. Available for pre-order through Kepler’s online store and shipping from late May 2026, the debut issue runs 200 pages, measures 240 × 310 mm, and appears in three reverse-cover variants devoted
BOOK
Façonnage Éditions has announced the release of Angelo Careri’s first book, Grand Theft Auto – Crime et architecture, a French-language long essay devoted to one of the most commercially dominant, culturally abrasive, and theoretically productive videogame series of the last three decades. Published in the Everglades collection, the book includes
INTERVIEW
A conversation between Matteo Bittanti and Janne Schimmel has been published on the Permanent Beta Network website. Titled Repair as Refusal: Janne Schimmel and the Phantoms of Gaming Hardware, the conversation examines Schimmel’s sculptural practice through haunted consoles, obsolete devices, repair culture, homebrew communities, and the material afterlives of
BOOK
About fifteen minutes into a run as Sammy the caterpillar, the phone can go on your lap. The thumb has finished its work. You are still technically playing. Flower (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025) is Ed Atkins’s anti-memoir, built from accumulated preferences, bodily admissions, and things he desperately craves. Not quite
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Magic Circles Digital video, color, sound, 22 min 42 sec, 2024–25 Canada. Online laboratory, four-channel video series, and pop-up exhibition. Produced by Sojung Bahng. Part of the MetaMetaverse SSHRC Insight Development program. Companion exhibition: Distribution of the Sensorial, Zentrum für Netzkunst, Berlin, October 2025. Directed by Gabriel Menotti The
GAME ART
2girls1comp’s latest mod for Grand Theft Auto V, PowerPoint for GTA V, does exactly what the title promises, with the sort of straight face usually reserved for procurement departments and hostage negotiations. It turns Grand Theft Auto Vinto presentation software. Los Santos, once a city of carjackings, botched heists,
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On Tuesday 28 April and Wednesday 29 April, between 19.00 and 23.00 CEST, Jordy Veenstra will livestream Live Machinima Production in Grand Theft Auto V, a free two-part event on both YouTube and Twitch dedicated to the making of machinima in Los Santos. Veenstra, co-author with Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
‘I am creating digital resting places in order to reorient the way in which we allocate our attention to digital media. I strongly believe the current “attention economy” has created a void where slow paced and methodical engagement with the digital media used to exist.’ (Joey Toro) The most compelling
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Tropical Depression 3-channel video installation, 31 min 20 sec, Germany, 2025 created by Alexander Walmsley vral.org Watch now Across three synchronised screens, Tropical Depression enacts a peculiar form of planetary witnessing: the life and death of twenty-one cyclones that swept through the southern hemisphere during the 2023–2024 tropical
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0-99. Design per gioco 10 April–May 10 2026 Via Borromeo 41 Cesano Maderno Milan, Italy During this year’s Milano Design Week, one exhibition has quietly stepped outside the gravitational pull of the city’s endless and frankly overwhelming itinerary. 0–99. Design per gioco, on view at Palazzo
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On Thursday 16 April 2026, from 6:30 to 7:45 pm GMT, the Twentieth Century Society will host the online event Videogames as Architectural Archives: Twentieth-Century Architecture and Beyond. Framed around the relation between game design, architectural history, and cultural preservation, this online event considers how videogame environments might