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.
3D ANIMATION
A terrific work by Ian Cheng (b. 1984, Los Angeles) which appropriates videogame aesthetics to document the history of cognitive evolution, past and future. Described as a live simulation and story, Emissary in the Squat of Gods was presented by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy) between April 23 until
ART GAME
Peter Buczkowski, a designer from Bremen, Germany, investigates the relationship between work and play in his latest installation, Current Times, which he describes as an update to Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). A meditation of gamification and neoliberal notions of "efficiency", Current Times is about players being
GAME ART
Tommy Chain, Enduring Freedom, Mixed-media sculpture & video, Dimensions variable, video 4.05 min, HD video, stereo sound, Concrete, steel, extruded styrene, paint, c stand, TV, 2015 "Enduring Freedom is a discomix tableau that utilizes the form of a FPS computer game, a consumer media object with naïve
ART GAME
Dave Ball, I've Always Wanted to Drive Across America, 2016; (video documentation of) installation with playable 'Desert Bus' video game, accompanied by spoken-word soundtrack in which the artist describes from memory every overseas trip he has ever made. My comment is frankly redundant, but I&
GAME ART
J.B. Wejman, Une table modifiée pour une machine qui génère un monde qui génère un personnage qui génère un voyage, 2014. Installation view The title of this installation can be roughly translated as "A modified table for a machine that generates a world that generates a character that
3D ANIMATION
Tabor Robak, Dog Park, two-channel video, self generative computer animation, 2015 A former graphic designer who used to design the billboards in Times Square, Tabor Robak has elevated videogame aesthetics into a new visual language that is, at once, proudly one-dimensional and shiny-slick. Dog Park remediates the
3D ANIMATION
In this terrific 30+ minute interview, artist Tabor Robak discusses his practice with the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art in New York director Simon Castets. Robak talks about hishis creative process and his work, which was featured in The St. Petersburg Paradox exhibition. Commissioned for this exhibition, A* illustrates the hypothetical
DOCUMENTARY
In this short video interview produced by the Swiss Institute, Brooklyn-based artist Tabor Robak "discusses his personal relationship to gaming technology past and present, and describes how constructing complex digital objects and programming computer generated environments changes his way of looking at the world." (Swiss Institute) Tabor
3D ANIMATION
Tabor Robak, Free-To-Play, 4-channel HD Video, custom software 1 hour, dimensions variable With Free-to-Play (all works 2013), Brooklyn-based artist Tabor Robak emulates Candy Crush Saga's visual aesthetics to create a one-hour installation celebrating distraction, visual stimuli, and multi-tasking. Mimicking interactivity,
GAME ART
A short video shot within Grand Theft Auto V by filmmaker and photographer Roland Spencer. LINK:Roland Spencer
GAME ART
Juliana Riska, Epuisement, digital video/machinima, 3' 51", 2015 Behind this clever meditation on walls and wall decoration by Juliana Riska, a French architecture student, lies a deep critique of capitalism and the mass production of uniqueness that informs its ideology: Le mur, symbole d'un aboutissement
GAME ART
Bob Bicknell-Knight, Simulated Ignorance, digital video/machinima, 17' 50", 2016 A new piece by prolific artist Bob Bicknell-Knight, a Fine Art student at Chelsea College of Arts. Simulated Ignorance focuses on the repetition and automation of game mechanics, and the illusion about the equivalence between real