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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Highly recommended: "Towards an Art History for Videogames" By Lana Polansky at Rhizome "Die Entscheidung: A Matter of Life or Death" By Martin Hieslmair @ ARS ELECTRONICA Artificial Ecology: Ian Cheng on the Strange Art of Simulating Life, and the Conceptual Merits of Pokémon Go by Dylan
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Described by Bredenberg as a "Dyst-ironical speculative fiction machinima," Last Worker Standing is machinima about a multipurpose multitasking vacuum cleaning robot sweeping floors of ruined industrial loft premises of an abandoned startup company. As the artist writes: "Last Worker Standing shows one possible outcome of automation
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Intriguing project by conceptual game photographer Robert What consisting of "396 lightly customized snapshots of popular cs:go maps outside regular official play boundaries": this project conceives the voids between surfaces (and or surface-voids) not only as a postmodernist critique of digital architectures, but as a means
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A student at Carnegie Mellon University, Miles Peyton b. 1995) is interested in the anatomy of PoKèmon. In Pokémon Bones, he dissects these adorable creatures to find their inner structure. Below are a few examples. All the models and bones were ripped from Pokemon X and Y . I'm
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I'm delighted to announce an upcoming art exhibition in Mantua, Italy. TRAVELOGUE Curated by Matteo Bittanti September 7- 11 2016 Cantine di Vincenzo I Gonzaga Piazzetta Santa Barbara, 46100 Mantua MN Open every day from 8.15 AM until 19.15 p.m. Admission: 3 euros An official
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Priceless talk given (or, rather performed) by Hit o Steyerl at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, B arcelona on June 6, 2016, disguised as a tribute to Harun Farocki. Some highlights: Games are real Games are extremely powerful, generative fictions Unexpected outcomes Games as a form a social control "War is
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Kent Sheely's 11th episode of an ongoing series of scenes featuring video game characters at the mercy of public transportation, following a previous iteration shot in/with The Division. And remember: you need a mortgage. The series began in 2012 and features hyper-violent third person action games.
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Marian Mayland, New Dark Age, 2015. Video game modification, CRT-screens, personal computers, LCD-screens; dimensions variable New Dark Age is a new installation by Marian Mayland featuring two CRT-screens each showing footage from the 1999 video game Deus Ex. Specifically, the screen depict animated screenshots from one of
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Curated by Pietro Righ i Riva - 1/2 of indie studio Santa Ragione and Program Coordinator of new Master GAME/PLAY, the first edition of the Milano Game Festival will take place at IULM University in Milan, Italy every night from the 8th to the 12th of September 2016. "
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A new series of videos from Venezuelan-born, NY-based artist Victor Morales are uncanny, mesmerizing, and morbidly fascinating. They are all mildly disturbing, in a good way. Here's the incredible FigureFiguring, a dance scene sui generis which degenerates in a plastic-elastic copulation that defies the laws
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A new exhibition dedicated to indie games in the heart of the Californian Wine Country - alcohol and gaming, a perfect combo. The show features playable versions of ten games, plus videos, developmental artwork and interviews with the game developers. Down the Rabbit Hole is curated by Meagan Doud, but the
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Game designer and artist Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (LOOPS) has completed a new project. titled Ometepe. As Miranda Zuniga writes, "It’s a small 2D game inspired by research that I did regarding a planned transoceanic canal that is to be built through Nicaragua. Fortunately, it seems that the canal