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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Harun Farocki's Parallel Thaddeus Ropac, Paris January 15 – February 15, 2014 From the press release: "Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents its fourth solo exhibition by Harun Farocki (b 1944), video artist and essay filmmaker living in Berlin. In 2007, Harun Farocki, whose work has had a decisive influence
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No, it's not the trailer for a new episode of Nintendo's Wave Race. Orion Beach is the official complementary short film and official music video for the song Orion Beach, written and performed by D/A/D from the album The Construct. The author is Cambell
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GameScenes recommends: SOUTH KOREAN PRO-GAMERS State of Play is a 2013 documentary about South Korean StarCraft professional gamers written and directed by Steven Dhoedt, now available for download and streaming. Trailer below: CHIPTUNE DOCS Anders Carlsson aka Goto80 discusses chiptunes documentaries and provides viewing suggestions. His favorite one? Europe in
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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
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LINK: SaveMe Oh Related Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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NYU Game Center Lecture Series presents Clara Fernandez Vara The Art of World Building Thursday, March 6th, 7PM 2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor This sounds like a terrific talk. Free and open to the public. Additional details here. LINK : NYU GAME CENTER Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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A 30 minute lecture by Paolo Pedercini aka Molleindustria originally given at Indiecade East 2014, based on an essay included in the catalog of Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, an exhibition at FACT gallery in Liverpool. LINK : Paolo Pedercini aka Mollindustria Suvmitted by Matteo Bittanti
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More than a prankster: Born in Montpellier, France in 1975, Rémi Gallard is a modern day Alfred Jarry, a pataphysical performer challenging the arid logic of the machine with playful, always outrageous, at times sinister, public interventions. The result of elaborate planning and staging activities - often involving a group
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Franz Milec's new work is a playful take on "Conway's Game of Life and its evolutionary principles with its philosophical and religious predecessors" (Milec). Described as an art installation - the software runs on a tablet set on a vertical stand (hence the 2001-inspired
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"The Blank Arcade Understanding design as research, the DIGRA 2014 committee invites submissions of games that fill in the blanks. Games should ostensibly fill in the blanks of design or ludic experience, offering new game play experiences, highlighting spaces that are relatively uninhabited by other playful experiences or that
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Victor Morales' upcoming show at the Dixon Place in New York City on February 17, 2014 is titled "Electric Boogaloo Blues - the decay comes before the blues***". Morales describes it as "rough puppeteering using gamepad and ipad mashed with sound reactive shaders". Unmissable. LINK
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"A MAZE. / Berlin is an international platform for independent games that invites professionals and creatives from various fields to exchange their knowledge and visions, presenting their projects, playing, making contacts to collaborate on future projects. You can expect two days of inspiration, skill, celebration and play. " (A MAZE.