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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Birdly is a full body flight simulator and virtual reality machine in which the players embodies a bird, the Red Kite, with sensory-motor coupling. Visualized through Oculus Rift, soar through the virtual landscape of San Francisco with a 3D model from PLW modelworks, heightened by sonic, olfactoric, and wind feedback
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Hunter Jonakin has released "A walkthrough for Modern Flaneur", based on his 2013 interactive game Modern Flaneur (full title: Can You Hear Me Now? You'll Never Hear Me Again or Modern Flaneur: Extreme Wanderlust). Combining Charles Baudelaire with George Orwell, the Minneapolis-based digital artist redefines walking
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We lost one of the most eclectic artists of the 20th Century, German filmmaker, philosopher, and videogamer Harun Farocki. His contributions to Game Art were outstanding. I would like to remember him with Parallel (2012), a 17-minute video essay on the status of computer-animated images, and Serious Games (2009), a
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Brooklyn-based photographer and film director Casey Brooks has recently completed a photo essay on Grand Theft Auto V. Titled You Only Live Forever, it looks like this LINK : Casey Brooks Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (via Kotaku)
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Curated by Malcolm Levy, artist and curator, and Kimberly Voll, game designer and Isabelle Arvers, curator Evolution of Gaming is a retrogaming exhibition that will take place at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, Canada between August 1-10 2014. Specifically, Evolution represents the history of gaming from its roots
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I had the pleasure of having Mark Johnson in my GAMESCENES course at California College of the Arts in the Spring of 2014. This semester, Mark wrote a terrific essay on Pippin Barr titled "Art games About Art" which he has been kind enough to share with the
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Another stunning project from Chris Howlett. Unclassifiable from the very start: "his video piece lies somewhere between a document and a work in itself. It is not a documentary film, reality TV, or a film in the conventional sense. This moving image work can either be viewed as a
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Eddo Stern has released a series of teaser of his new project starring the one and only Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Intriguing, to say the least... LINK : Eddo Stern Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Kent Sheely and Null Ace remind us that the World Cup exemplifies everything that is wrong about Neoliberalism: massive exploitation of the dispossessed, marginalization of the underprivileged, celebration of the 1% through bloated advertising deals, social control via the Spectacle and other abominations. World Cup Conflict is a collaborative, interactive
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GAMERZ, one of the most important events dedicated to Game Art returns this Fall in Aix-en-Provence, France. Above is a video-recap of the previous edition, which features music from Postcoïtum. Below is a selection of artworks by Isabelle Arvers in the Machinglitch section. As always, GAMERZ delivers the very best.
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I love the fact that Irish-born, Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker David O'Reilly defined his new game, Mountain, as "Art Horror" (next to relax'em up - can horror be relaxing?). This is the birth of a new genre! As everybody knows, O'
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Red Shirts and Blue Shirts (The Gay Agenda) is another great example of in-game intervention from New York-based artist Angela Washko. As I recently discussed in Siena, Italy, there's critical play, but also critical players and Washko exemplifies the latter in her attempt to bring into the spotlight