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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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
GAME ART
Herms' 2015 game-photography project is a witty, playful re-enactment of Ai Weiwei's Study of Perspective (1995 - 2003) shot with Grand Theft Auto V. It is also its penetrating critique: rather than a mere copy, Herms' series is a clever commentary on contemporary art inexorable
GAME ART
Kent Sheely, Ready for Action #10: The Division, 2016, machinima, 05' 31" American new media artist Kent Sheely has produced another video in the ongoing series Ready for Action. Emulating the style of CCTV footage and surveillance cameras, the artist uses several video games to create situations at
EVENT
Kent Sheely, DoD, 2012 The FotoMuseum in Winterthur, near Zurich, Switzerland is launching PLAY, a terrific series of events focusing on game photography as part of their ongoing SITUATIONS (April 8 - May 22, 2016). Roc Herms, <YO><YO><YO>, 2007–2015 Curated by Marco
machinima
One of the most interesting trends in machinima these days is contemplative, land-art inspired video work. Consider Ashley Blackman. To create Walking through my back garden, the artist explicitly mentions Richard Long' s practice of recording his walks... Richard Long, A Line Made by Walking 1967, source: TATE
ART GAME
GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY APRIL 4 – JULY 31, 2016 OPENING: APRIL 4, 2016 AT 6 PM OPEN SPACE CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION HALL, IULM VIA CARLO BO 7, 20143 MILAN, ITALY ARTISTS: LARRY ACHIAMPONG & DAVID BLANDY, REWELL ALTUNAGA, HUGO ARCIER, MARTA AZPARREN, JOSH BRICKER, JOSEPH DELAPPE, CLAIRE EVANS, CHRIS HOWLETT,
GAME ART
Yasururu Sororo is "an imaginary encyclopedia of Paraguayan history in video game format" created by video artist Daniel Milessi and presented in the Paraguayan pavilion of the 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. This revisionist history deals with the plight of a country from colonialism to
ART GAME
Brent Watanabe, dispose( ), 2015, Computer-controlled installation A new collaboration between painter Cable Griffith and new media artist and programmer Bren Watanabe (after for(){}; in 2013), dispose( ); is an open world game that takes place on different media. It can be played on 24 acrylic on canvas paintings as well
GAME ART
Brent Watanabe, San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam, 2015-16studies for computer-controlled installation, Modified version of Grand Theft Auto V There's little doubt that Watanabe's installation is one of the most ridiculously brilliant Game Art projects of 2016. I find the San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam
3D ANIMATION
Lawrence Lek, Gravity's Folly, 2015Real-time architectural simulation; Three portrait full HD screens; GTX Gaming PC.Variable duration A new, mesmerizing installation by Lawrence Lek, Gravity's Folly is "a virtual world based on the tradition of the architectural folly: classical garden pavilions whose only purpose
ARCADE
What happens when you crank up the Painstation to 11? You get War of the Currents, a one-a-kind "cabinet with custom-milled metal joysticks wired with real voltage, and a 1 on 1 fighting game featuring the masters of electricity." Electrocution has never been so much
ART GAME
A new project by Ansh Patel, Trialogue is "(A)n inter-media game performance that transforms the process of game creation, playing and experiencing it into a playful tug-of-war of control, caught in a cultural and economic system which seeks to reinforce the status quo." Trialogue