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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Wow, "Cory Arcangel" and "Louis Vuitton" in the same sentence. Game Art has come a long way. I love the ALLCAPS press release, by the way: ALL THE SMALL THINGS, 2014. EXHIBITION VIEW, HERNING MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, HERNING, DENMARK, MARCH 21–SEPTEMBER 21, 2014. PHOTO:
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Untitle (version 2015). (Detail) Machinima/Installation, Black & White, No sound Cuban artist Rewell Altunaga's Untitle is a machinima created with Driver I and II, which will be included in the upcoming exhibition COOL WAR in Havana, Cuba between May 18 - June 18 2015. The machinima features gameplay
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(Re)Sounding the City is an interactive performance on body language and the psycho-geography of urban spaces presented by Masters students at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts. The performance uses "Kinect for Windows to project the performer’s body onto the screen and visually convey
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Copresented by Rhizome and the New Museum, the Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs is an online collection featuring the artist's early CD-ROM point-and-click adventure games, all produced between 1995 and 1997, are now accessible and playable online in any browser: Chop Suey (Magnet Interactive, 1995, co-
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Let's Play (Images courtesy of ARTE) Let's Play is a new documentary about the European indie game scene produced by ARTE France and Darjeeling. Created by journalist Laurent Checola and filmmaker Thomas Kimmerlin, the five-part documentary features interviews with developers, journalists, and festival organizers (including
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Gamerz, one of the best European festivals dedicated to Game Art and New Media Art, takes place this November in the beautiful city of Aix-en-Provence, France. Below is the Google-translated call for proposals for non-French speaking readers. Imminent deadline : April 30, 2015. LINK : Gamerz Submitted by
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For non Spanish-readers, here's the Google-translated news of the call for proposals. GAME ON is one of the best Game Art exhibitions/festivals in Latin America: The original p ost can be found here.LINK: GAME ON Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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New Alchemy - 2015 DANM MFA Exhibition Thursday, April 23, 2015 - Sunday, April 26, 2015 Digital Arts Research Center (UCSC) Presented by: Digital Arts and New Media All events are free and open to the public "In the Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program (DANM) at UC Santa Cruz,
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This abridged talk took place on April 13, 2010. Patrick Lichty (Man Michinaga and Andy Rembrandt) discusses, among other things, Joseph DeLappe's Gandhi in Jail Release Hootenanny, Gazira Babeli's iGods and Eva and Franco Mattes, 0100101110101101.org's 'synthetic performances'. The institions involved
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Carlos Monteiro's new game pays homage to Giorgio de Chirico. In SURREALISTa, the player must solve puzzles in environments modeled after the Italian artist' oneiric artscapes. The alpha version currently features 5 levels and the full game will be released in November 2015. Monteiro was born in
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This new short video of Eddo Stern's game Still Life with Putin (2014) shows the control interface. Developed in collaboration with artist Cyril Kuhn (b. 1970 in Zurich, member of the artist-run cooperative c-level from 2001-2004), Still Life with Putin puts the player in the
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The Tetris effect (or Tetris syndrome) is a well documented psychological phenomenon. The Doom Dream, however, is a completely different experience, an experience which has been documented in art-game form by Ian MacLarty, the autor of Action Painting Pro , a Jackson Pollock's simulator. As the Artist writes,