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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Paolo Pedercini's latest talk is a must see. Part of the BIG MAKER talk series, the video was produced by Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM), a non profit community media center in Burlington, VT. "Exploring the intersection of ideology and entertainment, Paolo’s work calls for the
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Kent Lambert's Hymn of Reckoning (2006) explores themes of combat, torture and grief using images and sounds from the TV series 24 and Lost, 1980s Nintendo games, and various known and unknown films. Kent Lambert is a Chicago-based musician and media artist. He worked from 2001 to
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Oscar Manuel Nodal Mercado (b. Juárez, 1986) is a Mexican visual artist whose work explores glitch aesthetic and bit rot. Glitch upon a time in the west is a glitchy machinima created with the game Sleeping Dogs by United Front Games and Square Enix. Nodal holds a BFA in Visual
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John AycockRetrogame ArcheologyTuesday, February 16, 2016.12:00 pm – 1:00 pm free and open to the publicEven the simplest old computer games may have required technical miracles to get running at all -- retrogame programmers were constrained by both hardware and software in ways that are unimaginable now. Retrogame archeology
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Kellee Santiago, The Artification of GamesStanford UniversityTuesday, February 9, 2016. 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, free and open to the public "Since my 2009 TEDxUSC talk, "Video Games Are Art: What's Next?", we have seen video games exhibited in major national museums, the explosion
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PRESS PLAY Static 15 January 2016 - 13 February 2016 Lawrence Alkin Gallery 42 New Compton Street London WC2H 8DA "Titled Press Play, this show has been born out of the duo's massively successful Game On! image released early 2015. The show reflects on the sub-culture of
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John G. Byrne, 2015, C-print, Edition of 6, 19 × 19 in Muir Vidler was born in 1975, raised in California and Scotland and live in London, UK. He photographs people (mostly) for personal projects and commissions. LINK : Muir Vidler
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Kristen Schiele, Tron, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 26 x 26 incKristen Schiele creates work in painting and sculpture. The works are inspired by stage sets, cinema, folklore, allegory, kitsch, and storytelling. Schiele has lived and worked in both the United States and in Germany. She received a BFA from Indiana
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Julia Wachtel, The Dissipation of Authority, 2015, installation view (Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NYC, "Empowerment", May 16th – Jun. 27th 2015) In The Dissipation of Authority, painter Julia Wachtel (b. 1956, New York) juxtaposes a character from Sony's Killzone to a sausage character of a vintage logo from
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In this short machinima, Bob Bicknell-Knight, a Fine Art student at Chelsea College of Arts, reflects upon "about the repetitive nature of life alongside the imprisonment of ourselves within routines." Aptly, the video uses footage from Sony's Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. The same
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Kim Asendorf, 8bit Hill, performance, part of his Solo Show in Sim City, 2011 I recommend spending some time examining the full series, which includes Performances, Installations, and Readymades. Pure genius. LINK: Kim Asendorf
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Abstract landscapes created by Isabelle Arvers, possibly the most knowledgeable person on machinima on this planet. These videos were produced during Arvers' recent artist residency in Brazil (see below for documentation). As she writes on her blog: "In Brazil when I finally had some time between 2 workshops