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Game Art: Mattie Hillock's "Game Over" (2013)
LINK : Mattie Hillock Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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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LINK : Mattie Hillock Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
INTERVIEW
Highly recommended: We Make Money Not Art's conversation with French curator Isabelle Arvers about the upcoming show GAMES REFLEXIONS. Here is an excerpt: "[Régine Debatty] Hi Isabelle! Why do you think that now is a good time to reflect upon gaming? And more particularly about the relationship
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Kudos to Urban Video Project - a multi-media public art initiative of Light Work and Syracuse University - for sharing an excerpt of Phil Solomon's "Still Raining, Still Dreaming" (2008, machinima, 12 ' 14""), a segment of his larger Grand Theft Auto series "
BOOK
Sensible Software 1986–1999 (2013) The wait is over! My most eagerly awaited book of the year, Sensible Software 1986–1999, goes to print today. Created by graphic designer, sculptor, music lover, and art director Darren Wall, the book is part of a new publishing project called Read-Only Memory, a
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Coll.eo, Racing After Richter, 2012 (from The Art of Racing series) Curated by Isabelle Arvers with the assistance of Pierre Corbinais (indie gaming) and Benjamin Fouquoire (retrogaming), GAMES REFLEXIONS is an upcoming exhibition focusing on the interplay between reality and simulation. The main theme is the self-referentiality of ludic
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© Photo by Melissa Richardson Banks www.downtownmuse.com (via TTDILA) Jonathan B from Things To Do in Los Angeles (TTDILA) writes about the new video game bar EightyTwo, which will open in the downtown arts district of LA in January 2014. Jonathan writes that "Art shows, special events and
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This looks like a fantastic event: Lee Tusman is curating the exhibition "Limits and Demonstrations: A Lula Chamberlain Retrospective" at Little Berlin Gallery in Philadelphia. It displays the artwork of Lula Chamberlain, a respected and well-known pioneer of new media arts, previously featured in Kentucky Route Zero and
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All images courtesy of SPIELSALON Stephan Richard Hanf, one of the organizers of the indie/game art event SPIELSALON, just sent us really good news about the upcoming second edition: "The SPIELSALON is the festival of author games. It represents the artistic development of computer games. New German and
DANCE
"What kind of process is a person running amok going through just before he is going to kill people? What kind of effects has a computer game like “Grand Theft Auto” on these people and the way they are observing reality? For his solo Fabien Prioville, former dancer of
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Developed by C arles F. Julià, Daniel Gallardo and Sebastián Mealla C., Waterdrops is a collaborative game for public spaces. The installation requires players to extinguish fire by using water flows controlled via tangible pipes on a tabletop interface. Players can control both the direction and intensity of the water
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LINK : Theca Lugano & Deceptive Perceptions LINK: Marco Mendeni Related
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Kieran Nolan is a lecturer with the Section of Creative Media at Dundalk Institute of Technology’s School of Informatics and Creative Arts, and a PhD researcher with the GV2 group and Arts Technology Research Lab at Trinity College, Dublin. He is also an external examiner for the MA in