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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This is as brilliant as Cory Arcangel's bots playing bowling. dekuNukem built a machine that finds and catches Pokemon creatures and it does not require any human input. Genius. This is Game Art at its best. Full description below: "Fully automated shiny hunt, breeding, cloning, releasing, and
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In November of 2013, Belgian artist and designer Kris Temmerman installed an 8-bit arcade game titled Invasion on his house window, inviting pedestrians to play for free. Temmerman developed a game in which "the world gets invaded by aliens and you have to fight your way to the end
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Anita Fontaine's new project is a "Looping video portrait of a family made inside videogame: The Sims". The first two episodes, DAD and DAUGHTER are available. In the former, "a failed rockstar has broken into the neighbors apartment to steal soda and watch TV as
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OPERAcraft is a brilliant project, developed by Ariana Wyatt; Tracy Cowden; Kelly Parkes; Katie Dredger; Ivica Ico Bukvic, Assistant Professor of Music in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, IMPACT Studio Head: "In December 2013, a group of Virginia Tech students along with local K-12
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From the Swiss collective and-or.ch (remember Discrimination Pong? What about Leichenberg (defect 3)?) comes nanorunners (defect 6), a multiplayer game about capitalism which has received a warm welcome at several festivals across Europe (example one, two and three). Full description below: "Nanorunners is a multiplayer race to the
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Curated by Isabelle Arvers, MACHINGLITCH is a killer screening of machinima works that will take place during the 2014 edition of VECTOR: GAME + ART CONVERGENCE. Full list of artists: Jupiter and Beyond the Blocks – Félicien Goguey & Benjamin Bartholet Machinhuma – Edouard Taufenbach Bitsplit – Florian Dieude Metropolis – Chris Hawlett Prepare to
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Michael Allison's new project is titled Shamanic Prosthesis - experiment 1 and uses virtual reality (Oculus Rift programmed in cinder), Microsoft Kinect, video, and audio processing effects "to induce a trance-like state in the user and enable introspection and contemplation of a possible spiritual connection to computation.
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"Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents. Fearing
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A new machinima trilogy by Victor Morales, inspired by Sidney Lumet's Network (1976). The first episode is now available, featuring a soundtrack by Pal Asle Andersen. LINK : Victor Morales related Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Mary Flanagan's IndieCade 2012 conference talk. LINK : Mary Flanagan Submitted by Matteo Bittanti via Furtherfield
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DELUXX FLUXX Arcade 2013December 3rd - 7th1604 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach Artist due FAILE (Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller) & street artist BAST plus Matthew Cooley, Eric Ishii-Eckhardt, Quin Kennedy, and Julio Terra have hacked, detoruned, and reinvented a series of old arcades and pinball machines just in time for
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After killing Jeff Koons, Jonakin has been busy reiventing one of Roland Barthes' most influential essays. The Author Must Die: Iteration 01 is a... "[V]ideo game/art project, which is loosely based on ideas presented in the essay, "Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes.