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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Hugo Arcier, Ghost City, 2016, installation view, Lux Scène Nationale Valence (c) Hugo ArcierIn Hugo Arcier's new installation, the architecture of Grand Theft Auto becomes a reflective and ruminative experience. Inspired by Lucrece's De rerum natura, Ghost City immerses the viewer in a phantasmatic urban environment,
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GAMES AS ARTS/ARTS AS GAMES From the 10th to the 23rd of October 2016 at The POLY Falmouth24 Church street, Falmouth, CornwallCurated by Tanya Krzywinska (The Games Academy) in collaboration with the MetaMakers "Videogames are often described in terms of folk art. Sensationalized as fairy tale monsters, seducers
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Paolo Pedercini's artistic practice focuses on the relationship between electronic entertainment and ideology. His machinima Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2006) is currently on display in the level of GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY. Below is an exclusive interview for GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY, produced
CONCEPTUAL
The most interesting artworks in the field of Game Art are often conceptual. An example is Tom Durley's I'd Rather Be Playing Tetris (2007), which sits under the umbrella of participatory art. In this piece, the audience was given the chance to either play a game
GAME ART
In this multimedia project by Peter Burr, written and Co-Designed by Porpentine, games are used both as an the aesthetic horizon and as a narrative device. As Burr explains, In video games, there is the concept of a dungeon that generates itself: an endlessly mutating death labyrinth. Cave Exits
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A screenshot of SimCity 3000, one of the games depicting London which are now part of the Museum of London collection Foteini Aravani, Digital Curator of the Museum of London, has been collecting video games depicting, or rather simulating the city of London. Aravani explains: "Building upon the museum’
COLLABORATION
In this interview, Larry Achiampong and David Blandy's discuss the creative process behind their ground-breaking Finding Fanon series. This video was produced by the students of IULM's Master's Program in Arts, Markets, and Cultural Heritage. Editing and Subtitles: Mariacristina Maffeo Finding Fanon 2
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Read more about the aesthetics of slow machinima and Blackman's work.LINK: Ashley Blackman
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Josh Bricker uses formal strategies of appropriation and détournement to investigate the social ramifications of a world inundated by images. Josh Bricker (b. 1980, USA) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Parsons School of Design in New York with an MFA in Studio
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"For its dwellers, Nova Alea was a mixture of shelters, connections, memories, longings. For its masters, the city was a matrix of financial abstractions." (Paolo Pedercini) This is the first chapter of Paolo's new project, the Playable Cities series, influenced by Italo Calvino's Invisible
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Remember SurrealistA? Carlos Monteiro 's new game pays homage to Giorgio de Chirico. In the recently completed SURREALISTa, the player must solve puzzles in environments modeled after the Italian artist' oneiric artscapes. The full game is now available and it features eight 'playable' paintings by De
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Aram Bartholl, Build And Run, 2016dimension: 1024 x 768px, medium: computer game, PC & web Aram Bartholl's first game can be downl oaded for PC here or played online here.LINK : Aram Bartholl