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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Video: Miltos Manetas, Editing and Subtitles: Mariacristina Maffeo This interview was specifically produced for GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY Miltos Manetas (b. 1964) is a Greek-born painter, conceptual artist and theorist whose work explores the representation and the aesthetics of the information society. Manetas is the Founder of the
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On the phenomenology of online gaming. Terrific piece. LINK : Bob Bricknell-Knight
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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