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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Killer project from Rhizome, with a little help from the New Museum, which confirms that culturally speaking, New York is the true capital of gaming in the United States. This kickstarter project is not only about Theresa Duncan, but also about game preservati on, game history (or herstory), and technology.
EVENT
Thre e gaming luminaries - more like rockstars - Brenda Laurel, Janet Murray, and Anne Balsamo discuss games at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU). The video is from S eptember 2013, but in the age of GamerGate, this is as fresh as gelato. Highly recommended. LINK
GAME ART
A 6 minute reportage by Aldo Lee on game hacking first broadcast by ARTE in Europe, as part of the ongoing series Tracks. The video discussed the show "Obsolescence déprogrammée" which took place in Chevilly. LINK : TRACKS Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
A second blast from the past. Brody Condon's The Sims screengrab after Grand Canyon BBQ. LINK : Brody Condon Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME
Killer series of screenings @ MIX NY today in the Queer Wi-Fi: Do Trust Strangers show curated by Filipe Afonso. The guest curator writes that: "Spending time in front of screens, exploring and navigating virtual worlds has opened a path to swapping genres, creating new avatars, fantasies and anxieties. We
GAME ART
A blast from the past. Brody Condon's The Sims screengrab. LINK : Brody Condon Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
To create Tweet Shot, Canadian artist and Assistant Professor of Digital Art & Painting at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania Byron Rich modded a fictional game gun control device and connected it to a laptop computer. In Version 1.0, When the trigger is pulled by a visitor, an email
GAME ART
Developed in collaboration with Ian F. Thomas and Alex Derwick, Byron Rich's Autonomous Player Simulation (APS) is "designed to engage the hyper-real experience of communication-technology based interactions as exemplified by online gaming and military drones ". Rich invesitages the growing separation between physical experience and the immateriality
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Professor Lisa Nakamura talks about racing and games at Meaningful Play Conference 2014. The event was sponsored by the Quello Center at Michigan State University and served as the opening event for the conference. LINK: Meaningful Play Conference 2014Submitted by Matteo BIttanti
3D ANIMATION
Cuban Artist Rodolfo Peraza's new project is titled JailHead: The Internet Prison, and it is based on Presidio Modelo Prison, is a former “model prison” of Panopticon design, located on the Isla de la Juventud in Cuba, built between 1926 and 1931, during the repressive regime of Gerardo
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Cable Griffith, Wall Pattern (installation detail), 2014, acrylic on panel, 8 x 10 inchesCable Griffith: Domestic LandscapesThursday, November 13 @ Two Shelves 212 11th Ave E, Apt 202 Seattle, WA 98102 7 - 10 PM Domestic Landscapes is a site-specific installation by Cable Griffith for the Seattle in-home gallery, Two Shelves
GAME ART
An excerpt from Rewell Altunaga's new machinima, Psychedelic War. LINK: Rewell Altunaga Submitted by Matteo Bittanti