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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John AycockRetrogame ArcheologyTuesday, February 16, 2016.12:00 pm – 1:00 pm free and open to the publicEven the simplest old computer games may have required technical miracles to get running at all -- retrogame programmers were constrained by both hardware and software in ways that are unimaginable now. Retrogame
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Kellee Santiago, The Artification of GamesStanford UniversityTuesday, February 9, 2016. 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, free and open to the public "Since my 2009 TEDxUSC talk, "Video Games Are Art: What's Next?", we have seen video games exhibited in major national museums, the explosion
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PRESS PLAY Static 15 January 2016 - 13 February 2016 Lawrence Alkin Gallery 42 New Compton Street London WC2H 8DA "Titled Press Play, this show has been born out of the duo's massively successful Game On! image released early 2015. The show reflects on the sub-culture of
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John G. Byrne, 2015, C-print, Edition of 6, 19 × 19 in Muir Vidler was born in 1975, raised in California and Scotland and live in London, UK. He photographs people (mostly) for personal projects and commissions. LINK : Muir Vidler
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Kristen Schiele, Tron, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 26 x 26 incKristen Schiele creates work in painting and sculpture. The works are inspired by stage sets, cinema, folklore, allegory, kitsch, and storytelling. Schiele has lived and worked in both the United States and in Germany. She received a BFA from Indiana
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Julia Wachtel, The Dissipation of Authority, 2015, installation view (Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NYC, "Empowerment", May 16th – Jun. 27th 2015) In The Dissipation of Authority, painter Julia Wachtel (b. 1956, New York) juxtaposes a character from Sony's Killzone to a sausage character of a vintage logo from
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In this short machinima, Bob Bicknell-Knight, a Fine Art student at Chelsea College of Arts, reflects upon "about the repetitive nature of life alongside the imprisonment of ourselves within routines." Aptly, the video uses footage from Sony's Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. The same concerns
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Kim Asendorf, 8bit Hill, performance, part of his Solo Show in Sim City, 2011 I recommend spending some time examining the full series, which includes Performances, Installations, and Readymades. Pure genius. LINK: Kim Asendorf
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Abstract landscapes created by Isabelle Arvers, possibly the most knowledgeable person on machinima on this planet. These videos were produced during Arvers' recent artist residency in Brazil (see below for documentation). As she writes on her blog: "In Brazil when I finally had some time between 2 workshops
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If Brody Condon's Adam Killer had a soundtrack... I Will Survive is a machinima created with Unreal Tournament in 2000 by gorrr aka Mosmax, i.e. Max Moswitzer (b. 1968) an artist living and working in Vienna and Zurich. Mosmax studied Graphic Arts at the University of Applied
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The action becomes more and more frantic, almost hysterical, in this video by Nicolas Boillot. This artwork was included in dead drop by Aram Bartholl vol.5 : BEST OF curated by Fach & Asendorf Gallery (February 8 – March 14, 2013) Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA. Nicolas Boillot
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Marco Mendeni, DayZ, 2015, installation, 3 panel (DayZ 001 – DayZ 002 – DayZ 003), digital processing on concrete, on gesso, on wood, 120×83 cm each. Marco Mendeni's latest project, DayZ, is a series of portrays of avatar extrapolated from MOD video game ArmA2, DayZ. As Mendeni is interested