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.
MODDING
A new work by Portuguese artist Sandra Arajou, starring Super Mario: "Video games are emergent systems with their own particular internal relationships. This animation mashes up and deconstructs game spaces taking on a multitude of forms, from scrolling on one axis to several separate screens. The blocky 2D grids
ARCADE
Team Vector X VideoFag: Queer Arcade. July 27-28 @ VideoFag 187 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, Canada 12pm-10pm both days. "Queer Arcade is a curatorial collaboration between game art curatorial collective Team Vector and the Toronto exhibition space VideoFag, which addresses the theme of queerness in video games. On July 27-28, Queer
ART GAME
Curated by Stephan Schwingeler and Bernhard Serexhe, ZKM_Gameplay - − The Game Platform at the ZKM Start New Game! is a new exhibition organized organized ZKM -Media Museum ("the world's first and only museum for interactive art"). ZKM_Gameplay opened on Fridy June 21, 2013. ZKM_
EVENT
Pippin BARR All's Well that Ends Well 2011 Image courtesy of the artist Organized by the Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology of Brisbane (Australia), the imminent The Games of Art exhibition "will investigate artists who use gaming as a framework and medium for expressing social-cultural
GAME ART
This is quite different. Ice cream as a weapon of mass destruction. Digital games as weapons of mass distraction. Mission 67 by Wall Pushers is a peculiar FPS set in Palestine. The "67" in Mission is an obvious reference to the 1967 Six Day War aka 1967 Arab-Israeli
DOCUMENTARY
In this short video, the artist Cory Arcangel talks about video games, computers, and his piece Super Mario Clouds (2003). LINK : Cory Arcangel Submitted by Mateo Bittanti (via the Whitney Museum of American Art, footage by Code and Theory).
EVENT
A video excerpt from Impossible Backgrounds, "an improvised audiovisual performance for live electronics, sitar and game visuals" by Bob Meanza (live electronics), Filipe Dias De (sitar), and Marco Mendeni (Game Art visuals) recorded on 08/08/12 at Sowieso, Berlin.For additional information about Mendeni's practice
ARCADE
Curated by skot deeming aka mrghosty, The Ghost Arcade is an exhibition featuring "11 hacks/bootlegs/fan made games shown at the exhibition, with two of them being Pokemon: Project Creepy Black (a fan made demo of the Pokemon Creepy Black myth), and the fan made Polybius game. Alongside
EVENT
Image: Cory Arcangel Cory Arcangel: Po_er Points DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art 451 & 465 Saint-Jean (corner Notre-Dame, in Old Montréal) Montréal, Québec, H2Y 2R5, Canada Hours: _ednesday–Friday noon–7pm, Saturday–Sunday 11–6pm Free admission ___.dhc-art.org "DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art is delighted
ART GAME
Travis Chen's console, Photos by Jonathan B (Source: Things to Do in LA) Travis Chen's console, Photos by Jonathan B (Source: Things to Do in LA) Here's a gem via Things to Do In LA - kudos for their massive coverage of iam8bit Entertainment
GAME ART
Photo by Pak Han: Christopher James Cortez 410[GONE] is a new play by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig and directed by Evren Odcikin. It runs at the Thick House in San Francisco (1695 18th St., SF) through June 29th 2013. Heavily inspired by gaming aesthetics and Dance Dance Revolution in particular,
GAME ART
"A site specific installation created for the EXPLORA show in Tel Aviv in May 2002, RUNNERS: Wolfenstein recontextualized the a popular WW2 computer game allowing Israeli players to invade Nazi Germany and attack Nazi soldiers on three large projections. Three modified iterations of the war fantasy game “Return to