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.
DANCE
lamegame, STREETfight performance in Hamburg, 2013Irresistible street performance by Kathleen Rappolt and Nils Deventer, directed by Stefanie Rejzek and Gwendolin Lamping aka lamegame, whose goal, motto and mantra is to invent "low tech/no tech streetgames and performances" (my kind of games). Rejzek and Lamping met at the
ART GAME
On June 16, 2014, Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti were invited to participate to an international workshop on GAMING, ART, AND CULTURE in Siena, Italy organized by Professor Pier Luigi Sacco and Nicola Tripet. The event took place in the Bibliotechina of Santa Maria della Scala, located in Piazza del
GAME ART
A new, insane video by Sandra Araújo featuring music by João Mascarenhas and guest voice & lyrics by Rafael Dionísio. Mastered by Pedro Costa, the video is from Uma Desgraça Nunca Vem Só, released on June 5 June, 2014. It features Pikachu, a horse jockey, an howl, Miles Cyrus, a
GAME ART
Not quite Game Art, but genius, nonetheless. Guitar Hero is a "wearable musical device which is sort of in between a guitar and a keyboard. It translates finger gestures into signals and play out different notes." Developed by Yen Chen Chang as his graduation project for the Design
3D ANIMATION
A showcase video featuring a series of projects created with CryEngine, Unity and other game engines by Venezuela-born artist Victor Morales. Stunning work. LINK : Victor Morales Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
Australian artist Chris Howlett was kind enough to share his latest work, New Dawn, a 4-channel unsynched video which he presented at Boxcopy gallery in Brisbane, Australia in 2013. As Howlett explains, New Dawn explores the mysterious nature of reality in the objects and the mediatized spaces that surround us
ART GAME
Art in Video Games, Los Angeles is a 13-part documentary about the convergence between age and videogames produced by Kurt Mattila and Alexander Dervin for MOCA TV, MOCAtv is a contemporary art video channel, developed as a digital extension of the education and exhibition programming of the Museum of Contemporary
GAME ART
New project from COLL.EO: GRAND THEFT SAMO, a modded version of Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games, 2008), GRAND THEFT SAMO is an in-game performance, a series of videos (machinima), screengrabs, and digital prints featuring the avatar of Jean-Michel Basquiat. As COLL.EO explain:"GRAND THEFT SAMO is
ART GAME
Benjiamin Poynter's latest project is titled Story Generating Apparatus , a indie game project which was originally conceived as a Master's thesis. Poynter describes as "an exploratory narrative with definitive game mechanics to be implemented for the Oculus Rift hardware." This video showcases a hybrid
3D PRINTING
GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this artworld. Our goal is to document and discuss both the origins and evolution of a phenomenon that
ART GAME
In 2013, Florent Deloison (b. 1983 in Amiens, France) developed Quand les hamsters régnaient sur la terre (When Hamsters ruled the Earth), as part of a residency in Cergy, outside of Paris. This interactive installation is set in a fictional universe where hamsters took control of the planet and reduced
ART GAME
Another interesting event about the future of the game medium and its artistic implications, ramifications, and subversions takes place at the iam8bit gallery in Los Angeles, from June 10 until the 22nd. The gallery is located on 2147 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Full details below: Industry Luminaries