MACHINIMA
Game Art: SaveMe Oh's "Disappear for a while" (2014)
LINK : SaveMe Oh Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
Matteo
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.
GAME ART
Game Art: Georgie Roxby Smith's "99 Problems [WASTED]" (2014)
Georgie Roxby Smith's ongoing series explores violence and gender in video games. 99 Problems [WASTED] is an intervention in GTA V. Low quality/sample video. See the previous interventions here. LINK : Georgie Roxby Smith INTERVIEW Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
Game Art: Robert Hidgin' "Big-Eye Trevally" (2014)
Is this Ecco the Dolphin for Oculus Rift? Not quite. But almost. Considering that "immersion" is still the dominant metaphor for virtual reality, the idea of swimming in a digital sea of "20,000 to 40,000 big-eye trevally shoal as part of a mating ritual"
GAME ART
Game Art: Benoit Paillé's "GTA V Tryptique" (2014)
Benoit Paillé, Crossroads of Realities, 2014 Canadian photographer and digital artist Benoit Paillé is investigating the relationship between photography and virtual worlds. His visual exploration of Grand Theft Auto raises the bar in terms of game photography. Truly fascinating. LINK: Benoit Paillé Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
VIDEO
Video: Veiviev Limited' "Lucid Dreams V2" (2014)
More pornographic teasing from Suffolk-based company Veiviev Limited, whose intention is to bring back virtual reality sex and onanistic jouissance for the Oculus Rift age, or, as they state, "to create more enjoyable and pleasurable artificial liaisons." Their latest project, titled Lucid Dreams V2, is "[A] very
EVENT
Game Art: Diego Leclery's "Me Playing Civilization" (2014)
Artist Diego Leclery's contribution to the 2014 Whitney Biennial is a playful performance. The artist sits outside of the Whitney Museum, he plays Sid Meier's Civilization for severn hours a day, all week long, until May 25. The artist told Animal that Me Playing Civilization is
DOCUMENTARY
Doc: Javier Polo's "Europe in 8-Bits" (2014)
Opening titles of Javier Polo's documentary on the world of chip music: "The stars of this musical movement reveal to us how to reuse old videogames hardware like Nintendo’s GameBoy, NES, Atari ST, Amiga and the Commodore 64 to turn them into a tool capable of
GAME ART
Game Art: Returned Resident's "Góð öndun" (2014)
LINK : Returned Resident Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
Game Art: SaveMe Oh's "I'' Meet You on The Other Side" (2014)
LINK : SaveMe Oh Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME
Lecture: Frank Lantz's "Strange Love or the Relationship Between Game Theory and Game Design" (NYU, 2014)
LINK: Frank Lantz Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME
Lecture: Clara Fernandez-Vara's "The Art of World Building" (NYU, 2014)
LINK : Clara Fernandez-Vara Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
Game Art: Benoit Paillé's "Hyper Timelapse GTA V" (Crossroads of Realities) (2014)
Benoit Paillé, Hyper Timelapse GTA V (Crossroads of Realities), digital video, 2014Hyper Timelapse GTA V is a fascinating project by Canadian photographer and digital artist Benoit Paillé, part of a larger project about the relationship between photography and virtual worlds that includes a tumblr . Below is the artist's