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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Chaim Gingold Play Design: SimCity, Simulation, and Geology Stanford University Friday, March 13, 2015 12:00 pm, free and open to the public Shriram 104 room Chaim Gingold is a computer scientist and interactive designer by training. By trade, he is a computer game designer and digital toymaker. He studied
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Kim Laughton's "los_santos.obj" is a brilliant experiment in ludic post-photography. The artist took a series of photographs of Grand Theft Auto V's megalopolis, Los Santos and removed all the original textures, giving the urban landscapes an appearance of flatness. Considering that virtual
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Georgie Roxby Smith, Arcade game, 2015 Smith's new work will be presented at James Makin Gallery 67 Cambridge Street Collingwood, Australia Saturday 7 March from 2pm - 4pm "Gun in hand, the protagonist in Happy End Game – a feminist first person shooter game – firmly returns the power
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Raiford Guins Behind the Bezel: Coin-Op Arcade Video Game Cabinets as Design History Stanford University Friday, March 6, 2015 12:00 pm, free and open to the public Shriram 104 room Raiford Guins is a Leeds United Supporter. He is also an Associate Professor of Culture and Technology within the
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A new project from COLL.EO (Colleen Flaherty and Mattteo Bittanti): Arthur Rimbaud in Liberty City, also known as Grand Theft Rimbaud. It is a replay of David Wojnarowicz’ (1954-1992) photographic series Arthur Rimbaud in New York (1978-1979) developed within the virtual spaces ofGrand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games, 2008)
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Colleen Flaherty, outer space, oil on canvas, 2015. PATTERN RECOGNITION FEBRUARY 21- MARCH 18, 2015 RANDOM PARTS 1206 13TH AVENUE, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94606 OPENING RECEPTION: THIS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 3-7PM LIVE ACOUSTIC MUSIC WITH THE BAND UNCLE AT 4:30PM "In the seminal Understanding Media. The Extensions of Man
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Stanford University is organizing a series of events about interactive media and games. The seminars features an impressive number of game scholars from various schools (of thought) and institutions, including Henry Lowood , James Newman , Robin Hunicke, KatherineIsbister , RaifordGuinsand Chaim Gingold. The seminars began January 9th and run every Friday until
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A fascinating example of post-photographic practices by Hungarian artist Loránd Szécsényi-Nagy (b. 1984) aka SZNL. 0.43 megapixel was created with a GameBoy camera, an add-on for Nintendo's 1989 portable console. The camera specs are anachronistic: 4 tone (grayscale) black and white images and a resolution of 128
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Rockage: San Jose 4.0 is a three-day celebration of indie music + retro gaming on Feb 6-8, 2015 at San Jose State University Student Union Ballroom, presented by MAGFest and SJSU Event Services. The 2015 rockage line-up includes 40+ bands/DJs and 100 classic arcade/ pinball/ retro console games on
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Created by French artist Julien Borrel for the Second Edition of the Montpellier Game Convention, Run on Warcraft is "an endless loop, a vanity about this character rushing through different places in the game with no purpose. The total absence of user interface and the lack of controller, immerse
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Lindsay Grace and Paolo Ruffino are curating one of the hottest events at the upcoming Digital Games Research Association Conference 2015 which takes place at Leuph ana Universität Lüneburg in Lüneburg, Germany: The Blank Arcade: Games Out of a Joint. A follow-up to the highly successfu first iteration in Salt
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I am fascinated by artists' appropriations of Grand Theft Auto. Take for instance Gibson's Grand Theft Bicycle (2012). This mod features an interesting ensemble of "gangsters": Yasser Arafat, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, George Bush Senior, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Dick Cheney, Hillary