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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Developed by Orestis Lazos in 2011, Hellas Riots is a Counter-Strike mod that re-creates the clash between Greek protesters and police forces and it is based on the incidents that took place in several Greek cities, in December 2008. As Lazos writes, "The game is staged in Tsimiski Avenue,
3D ANIMATION
Do Computers Dream of Electronic Sheep?, machinima poster, 2013 French artist Benjamin Bardou's new video, produced by Data Films, is a meditation of simulation and virtual reality. Titled Do Computers Dream of Electronic Sheep?, the Philip K. Dick's homage aptly incorporates images from Grand Theft Auto
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Aram Bartholl's seminal piece Dust (2004) has been installed at Winter prison in Sherbrooke, Quebec, as part of the show Espace[IM]media co-curated by Jean-Pierre Aubé, François Quévillon, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, and Sébastien Pesot. As an in-site installation, Dust Excerpt 1 features 20 pixellated crates of different sizes
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Maya is installated on platform 1 at Bristol Temple Meads train station (image courtesy Luke Jerram) British artist Luke Jerram has created a life-size pixelated reproduction of her daughter Maya using Kinect and a 3D printer. The result is quite uncanny:"Maya is a sculpture which acts as a
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GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this fascinating artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the
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Brenda Brathwhite, Train, 2009, board gameHosted by the Museum of Design of Atlanta, Georgia, XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design pays homage to the work of women as game designers and artist. The exhibition opened on July 14, 2013 and will remain open until September 1, 2013. Among the 40+
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George Bolster, Conditioned, digital print, 2003 George Bolster, Deathmatch , digital print, 2003Born in 1972 in Cork, Ireland George Bolster explores the relationship between religion and society. These two images belong to the series "Under Certain Conditions" which was produced exactly a decade ago.LINK : George Bolster Submitted by
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A video-recap of the fourth annual No Quarter Exhibition, a gallery showcase featuring exclusive commissions from established and emerging independent game developers, organized by the NYU Game Center on May 3, 2013. LINK : NYU Game Center Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Georgie Roxby Smith, Peacekeeper [War Games] YouTube video collage of kids role-playing Call of Duty Multiplayer IRL (in real life), 2013 The eagerly awaited new body of work from Australian artist Georgie Roxby Smith is now available. The work, which references "the latest gun available in the multiplayer game
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Oliver Griem (b. 1964) was born in Germany but lives and works in South Corea. He "is part media artist, part professor of arts" at Hongik University in the visual communication design department - for more information, check out his 2012 TedTalkX performance. Several of his videos and
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LINK : Kent Sheely Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Jeremy Couillard, My Time in the Cult of Melting Ancestors, 2013, single channel, 19 min Jeremy Couillard (b. 1980, Livonia, Michigan) is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Michigan State University (B.A., 2004) and Columbia University (M.F.A., 2012), Couillard has created a series