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.
EVENT
Queerness and Video Games: Identity, Community, & Design Tuesday, January 5, 2016, 12:00 pm, Free and open to the public Lane Hall, RM2 (Rodriguez Lecture Hall) Stanford University Video games represent today's fastest-growing and arguably most expressive digital medium, rich with the potential to tell stories of
ART GAME
Under the direction of Jeremiah Diephuis, an instructor in the Media Technology & Design and Interactive Media programs at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg several students have developed Game Changer Suite, a collection of multiplayer games that encourage cooperative and competitive game playing. The gamers moving about
INTERVIEW
Tracy Harwood & Tony Garry's new work is a critical examination of design fiction and futurity through machinima. Walker Family: Health & Wellbeing, Circa 2020 examines the role of technology in an hyper-connected world, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT), from the point of view of
Hugo Arcier
A new, powerful work by French artist Hugo Arcier recreates scenes of terror and violence within Grand Theft Auto V. With 11 Executions, Arcier stages brutal acts in which men and women of different ethnicities, social classes, and ages slaughter innocent people on the beach, on the highway, in the
GAME ART
Long Reliever is a new work by Isla Hansen. A kinetic electronic sculpture featuring popular motion sensing game remote, motor, car lock actuator, microcontroller, popular game platform, infrared sensor bar, monitor, the piece "automatizes the motions necessary to play Wii Sports by capitalizing on the limited motion sensing capabilities
GAME ART
Rossin's n=7 / The Wake of Heat in Collapse is a virtual reality simulation that employs the structure of side-scrolling gameplay to create an immersive, Oculus Rift-based experience. As Rossin writes, "Descending into a 3-dimensional Dantesque underworld, the viewer navigates a landscape of hacked architectural and video
GAME ART
Rachel Rossin, After GTA V (2015), oil on canvas, 60 x 78 inches (Photo: Tyler Milliner) Rachel Rossin (b. 1987) is a New York-based multi-media and installation artist whose practice aims to define new experiences regarding transcendence and perception. By synthesizing traditional art-making techniques with new technology, she examines the
EVENT
LAN - Join game curated by Bálint Ács Exhibition opening: 26 November 7 PM Music on the Exhibition opening: Double Score Dungeon Venue: Klauzál 13 Book Store and Contemporary Art Gallery Address: 1072 Budapest Klauzál tér 13. Opening hours: Friday: 12 PM -7 PM Saturday-Sunday 10 AM - 6 PM
DANCE
An amazing project by Ermira Goro, See You in Walhalla is a meditation on new media, identity, videogames, and performance in a technology-saturated world. As Goro writes: A woman slightly obsessive and familiarly lonely plays a new video game – Walhalla. She creates her avatar and guides her through various journeys
GAME ART
Michael Craig-Martin, Untitled (xbox control), 2014.Michael Craig-Martin’s Transience is now on view at the Serpentine Gallery in London.Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin Ireland in 1941. He grew up and was educated in the United States, studying Fine Art at the Yale School of Art and Architecture.
ART GAME
From the press release: On February 10, 2016, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College will present The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer, an exhibition that invites visitors to experience video games as art. The exhibition—the first known instance of art museum presenting a solo exhibition to a video game
GAME ART
A video excerpt of Morales' new project, Quantum Joy, which will premiere in New York on December 4th 2015 at Dixon Place.Here's the show description:Victor Morales takes his audiences for the ultimate digital performance ride, where particle robots, computer vision, digital puppets, and mapped dynamic