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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Oscar Nodal, Through the Crumbling South Island, 2015 As part of the collateral events series of GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY , an exhibition about the intersection between video games and video art currently on display at Milan's IULM University, the curators are happy to announce the first presentation
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This project by John Wikstrom is a visual interpretation of a comment about games and spirituality which appeared on YouTube. The comment was originally posted by original message here. Incidentally, I wrote about the same comment in my book about the phenomenology of racing games, Orizzonti di Forza.LINK: John
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Anna Eyler's new artwork is just brilliant. "Evoking at once the nature documentary and peep show, How to Explain Love to a Tape Measure is a series of machinima vignettes featuring flexible, geometric forms interacting within the Second Life world." (Eyler) Anna Eyler (b. 1987) is
Interview: Roc Herms
Above: open discussion with artist Roc Herms, artist/author/scholar Matteo Bittanti and Marco De Mutiis, Digital Curator at Fotomuseum, on the gamification of photography and on the relationship and interplay of photography and video games. Video by Fotomuseum, Winterthur. The panel took place on April 8 in Winterthur. Below:
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A geography of being is an installation that reflects upon the dynamics of the undocumented immigrant youths in the United States. The installation consists of wooden kinetic sculptures with animated displays titled “Undocumented Drones” and a video game t hat places the player in the role of an undocumented youth
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LOOPS is an ongoing series of brief animated loops with social commentary about politics, religion, ecology. Click on each animation to unravel the next.Born in San Francisco in 1971, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga is an American new media artist who approaches art as a social practice that establishes dialogue in
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Beverly Mayeri, Video Game Man, 2012, ceramics, 14 × 9 × 7 in (c) Berverly Maeri"Beverly Mayeri is a studio artist living in the Bay Area. She earned a BA from UCBerkeley and her MA in sculpture at SFState. She had early exposure to watercolor painting watching her mother paint
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David Borawski, burn out and erased by the first rain, digital video with sound, 2010Borawski shot this video in/with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. This machinima illustrates the notion of "going around in circles". As the artist explains, "The virtual biker does an extended circular burn
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Kent Sheely continues his ethnographic investigation of weak social ties, mundane non-life, and daily rituals in videogames. Granted, waiting for public transportation in The Division does not seem particularly enticing. But what are the alternatives? The neoliberal exploitation of that anti-union monstrosity on wheels otherwise known as Uber? Calling your
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Video: Miltos Manetas, Editing and Subtitles: Mariacristina Maffeo This interview was specifically produced for GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY Miltos Manetas (b. 1964) is a Greek-born painter, conceptual artist and theorist whose work explores the representation and the aesthetics of the information society. Manetas is the Founder of the Art
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On the phenomenology of online gaming. Terrific piece. LINK : Bob Bricknell-Knight
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On April 1, 2016, Tom Richardson aka Tommy Chain was in Milan for GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY. We interviewed him about his practice as an artist; the status of machinima; and the relationship between video art and video games. Interview by Sara Agostinelli, Filming by IULM Communication, Editing by