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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Espadaysantacruz, Interactive Chalk Cars, 2013, installation view (Photo courtesy of Espadaysantacruz) Developed by Spanish studio Espadaysantacruz and powered by OpenFrameworks/MadMapper, Interactive Chalk Cars (2013) is an installation based on a traditional children game originally played on sidewalks. It uses digital technology (i.e. projection mapping) to update and reinvent
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P-NG is an interactive installation developed by Espadaysantacruz Studio and Daniel Armengol Altayó with the aid of Processing and Arduino. A multiplayer game inspired by Pong, P-NG features one of the most colorful interfaces I've seen in a long time. Check out these amazing controllers: Up to 8
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Check out Zizzou: The Life Aquatic pinball machine installed in the Bar Luce at the new Fondazione Prada in Milan, a massive three-building monster designed by Rem Koohaas. According to the Prada Foundation PR task force, The Bar Luce, conceived by American film director Wes Anderson and located in the
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Peter Burr's new project revolves around t he endless labyrinth, self-generating dungeon, the never-ending maze. A 4-channel video installation, Cave Exists uses videogame aesthetics and themes to create a visual meditation on new media consumption - the d aily rituals of clicking, zooming, and scrolling. As the Brooklyn-based
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Canadian artist, filmmaker (Ghosts With Shit Jobs, Haphead, My Trip To Liberty City, among others), game designer (Everybody Dies, Unmanned), and writer (In Silico) Jim Munroe has a new project out: The Tour Guide: A Playful Fiction, which he developed as an artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
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In Florent Deloison's installation, La rhétorique peut casser des briques, visitors can interact with Tetris by using their voice. Three factors make this piece particularly interesting. First, its vintage character: the French artist used a NES version of Tetris. Secondly, he relied on a second dead medium to
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From the press release: “NO NAME” [that’s the way the cookie crumbles] Curated by Roberto Borghi Theca Gallery. Arte Contemporanea, via Tadino 22, Milano, Italy April 30 - May 13 2015 "Theca Gallery presents Marco Mendeni’s solo showcurated by Roberto Borghi. “NO NAME” [that’s the way
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"The annual tradition continues on May 1st and 2nd when Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hosts its 12th GameFest 2015 at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). GameFest 2015 will feature video game design students from universities across the northeast including Rochester Institute of Technology, Champlain
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Wow, "Cory Arcangel" and "Louis Vuitton" in the same sentence. Game Art has come a long way. I love the ALLCAPS press release, by the way: ALL THE SMALL THINGS, 2014. EXHIBITION VIEW, HERNING MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, HERNING, DENMARK, MARCH 21–SEPTEMBER 21, 2014. PHOTO:
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Untitle (version 2015). (Detail) Machinima/Installation, Black & White, No sound Cuban artist Rewell Altunaga's Untitle is a machinima created with Driver I and II, which will be included in the upcoming exhibition COOL WAR in Havana, Cuba between May 18 - June 18 2015. The machinima features
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(Re)Sounding the City is an interactive performance on body language and the psycho-geography of urban spaces presented by Masters students at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts. The performance uses "Kinect for Windows to project the performer’s body onto the screen and visually convey the
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Copresented by Rhizome and the New Museum, the Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs is an online collection featuring the artist's early CD-ROM point-and-click adventure games, all produced between 1995 and 1997, are now accessible and playable online in any browser: Chop Suey (Magnet Interactive, 1995, co-created with Monica Gesue), Smarty