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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"Artgame Sessions" @ GDC 2010: Wesley Erdelack (aka Iroquois Pliskin) discusses Jonathan Blow's Braid, Anthony Burch (aka Reverend Anthony) dissects Ubisoft Montreal's Far Cry 2 , Frank Lantz plays with Mark Essen's Flywrench and The Thrill of Combat , and Jason Rohrer deconstructs Terry Cavanagh
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Scott van Haastrecht describes this piece as "a split-flap display installation of emphatic visual communication". He elaborates: "The Space Invaders – in all their minimalist glory and retro nostalgia – have been born out of a technological limitation. Driven by the necessity to engage the player emotionally by anthropomorphizing
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Titled PLAY THE AESTHETICS, the latest issue of academic journal COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI (Social Communications, published by University of the Sacred Heart's imprint, Vita & Pensiero in Italy) features several contributions of Italian scholars focusing on the interplay between art and digital games. My essay - "Machinima As
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GAME SALON 2 Festival of Author Games November 27 - December 01, Kassel, Hermany Kassel Art Academy Dept. Cartoon Team GAME SALON Menzel 13-15 34121 Kassel LINK : GAME SALON (in German) - documentation (PDF, also in German) Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (Danke, Stephen)
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In his machinima trilogy, Sebastian Blank explores the relationship between art and society. "It's not about what art can do for society, it's about what society can do for art."(Sebastian Blank) A Dialogue between Art and Society I (top video) is about the
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Artwork: Modded version of Grand Theft Auto IV. Play as performance artist, architect, writer and philosopher Vito Acconci (b. 1940). Documentation: six videos of approximately 1 minute and 30 seconds of gameplay footage from Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games, 2008). Soundtrack: audio excerpt from Vito Acconci/Acconci Studio: Interiors.
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As I said before, the Oculus Rift is the new Kinect. Expect a lot of crazy, weird - or VRird - stuff. In this regard, Hodgin's demos, made with Cinder, are very promising. LINK : Robert Hodgin aka Flight404 Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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LINK: Bernard DeKoven Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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What can I say? Just reiterate that SaveMe Oh is pure genius. Loved the Eadweard Muybridge references. LINK : SaveMe Oh Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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A brief history of video game title design, created by Ian Albison for Will Perkins and Lola Landekick's presentation“Talking Titles: How The Language of Cinema Changed Video Games” @gamercamp.ca. Edited by Ian Albinson. Soundtrack: Anamanaguchi's "Endless Fantasy" LINK : Ian Albison Submitted by
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Anna Anthropy aka Auntie Pixelante @ UCLA GameLab on January 22, 2014, 6:00 pm Don't miss Anna Anthropy's lecture at UCLA GameLab on January 22, 2014. Anthropy is an "American video game designer and critic. She has developed a number of freeware games including Mighty
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If you happen to be in Wroclaw, Poland between November 13-15 don't miss Isabelle Arvers' workshop focusing on machinima, 8-bit aesthetics and demoscene. Arvers is giving a talk about the medium of machinima. As she writes on her blog, "I actually think that we can now