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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Lagares do Alvará is a virtual environment created using Unreal Editor for Fortnite, envisioning a partial reimagination of Mouraria, Lisbon, as a thriving, self-sustaining neighborhood no longer reliant on tourism. The project was mmissioned by Davide Onestini and André Trindade (aka By the End of May) for the 2024 Gentler
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Liquid Forest machinima, color, sound (soundtrack: Gaël Manangou, Congo), 8’ 37”, 2023/2024, France/Congo created by Isabelle Arvers November 22 - December 5 2024 vral.org Does the white man really not know that if he destroys the forest, the rain will stop? And that if the rain stops,
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FILE 2025 – Open Call – Art and Technology FILE is now accepting applications for the 2025 edition, inviting artists, creators, developers and researchers to submit their projects. This is a unique opportunity to exhibit your work in São Paulo, from July 15 to September 7, 2025, at the renowned FIESP Cultural
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Aria Dean, the visible (torso) world, 2024, Bronze and steel32.5 x 31.25 x 20.5 in / 82.5 x 79.4 x 52 cmAria Dean, Facts Worth Knowing at Châeau Shatto gallery, Los Angeles, installation shot, 2024Aria Dean, o, ye I encountered context exposed at the nape of
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The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL 22 Gordon Street London WC1H 0QB United Kingdom Hours: Monday-Sunday 7am-10pm, Saturday-Sunday 9am-6pm press release Applications are now open for the 2025 intake of the Cinematic and Videogame Architecture MArch course at the Bartlett School of Architecture, based at UCL’s brand new UCL
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Reyner Banham Loves Los Santos digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 5’ 15”, 2016, United Kingdom created by Luke Caspar Pearson vral.org Reyner Banham Loves Los Santos reimagines Banham’s original exploration of Los Angeles through the virtual lens of Grand Theft Auto V. In this adaptation sui
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The fields of arts and games are continuously and progressively intersecting, creating hybrids and cultural frames, mutually influencing each other. This is not new; arts have been using games as subject and material for millennia from depictions of athletes in ancient Greek sculpture to Yoko Ono’s All White Chess
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X Virtual Gathering: Honey November 1, 2024–February 14, 2025 X Museum Chaoyang District Langyuan Station, E1 (Building 10), No.53 Banjie Tower Road Beijing China press release Although the Chinese pictograph and title of the project refers to “honey,” it also morphologically entails its originator, the “bee” and its
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Cao Fei, Oz, 2022Cao Fei: My City is Yours曹斐: 欢迎登陆 30 November 2024 – 13 April 2025 Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery Road The Domain Sydney NSW 2000 AUSTRALIA official website press release In the largest exhibition of her work ever seen in Australia, Cao Fei (pronounced tsow
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LIMBUS IV single channel video (UHD), color, sound, 8’ 27”, 2024, France created by Hugo Arcier Limbus by Hugo Arcier is an ongoing machinima series that explores inaccessible spaces within video games such as Rage, Grand Theft Auto V and now Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II through the use of
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Kent Sheely, Bridge Creek, from the series Impression of Play, 2024 By overlaying wireframe structures on top of long-exposure video game screenshots, Kent Sheely creates a visual language that reveals the hidden architecture of digital gaming, a layer that is usually invisible to players but fundamental to their experience. The
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Harry Bayley discuss Bram Ruiter and Martin Gerrits’s seldom-seen homage to Phil Solomon, Infinite Skies (2011), which was screened at the 2024 Milan Machinima Festival. The screening inspired this thoughtful and poetic critique by our occasional contributor and machinimaker, Harry Bayley. “Here may indeed be torment, but not death.