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.
EVENT
Organized by Swissnex San Francisco during the Game Developers Conference 2013, the Game Gazer exhibition featured a series of games, playful installations, and applications. Curated by David Eliott, Sophie Lamparter, Andrea Müller, Daniel Sciboz, Douglas Edric Stanley, Eddo Stern, the show was organized in partnership with the Masters in Media
DESIGN
The rhetorics of cultural colonization, adorned with a series of paralogisms. Here is one: Games are Design (objects), Design is Art, therefore Games are Art. [And Art is Museums' property] Ouch. Museums is where videogames go to die."Museums, cemeteries! Truly identical in their sinister juxtaposition of bodies
BOOK
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3D ANIMATION
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
GAME ART
Daniela Masili received her Bachelor of Arts in Film Directing from Berlin University in 2009. Since then, she has been working on a series of interesting projects. The latest is "Zombienation", a new music video for hip hop band BND which remediates the aesthetics of Mortal Kombat. LINK:
GAME ART
Based in London, Michael Aubtin Madadi has received an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, and a BA in Illustration at University of Westminster. His latest project is titled Sefton's Dream, "[a] hurried journey through a dream sequence" created
EVENT
Baden Pailthorpe, 25 July - 18 August 2013 Martin Browne Contemporary 15 Hampden St Paddington NSW 2021, Australia LINK : Baden Pailthorpe related: Pattern Recognition Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
iam8bit Gallery, 2147 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026 Opening night on Friday, June 7, 7 - 11p.m (Exhibit to run through June 30) Featuring 80+ artists including Aled Lewis, Brent Kobayashi, Zac Gorman, Darick Maasen, Gianmarco Magnani, Jim Rugg, Jude Buffum and many more. LINK: iam8bit Submitted
GAME ART
Dan O'Neill created this series of motion scultpures using Cinema 4D, Vray, Xpresso and Thinking Particles. As he explains on his site, Dan edited the motion captures from this archive and used Microsoft Kinect as well. He tweaked the character models from Free 3D Models and obtained a
ART GAME
The Church Of Whatever is a new audiovisual band formed by Spanish artist Entter (ex-Meneo, nee Raúl Berrueco, 1977) and HISS, a young bleep-techno producer from Treviso, Italy. Berrueco i s widely known for his visual focus on retro arcade and low-fi gaming graphics from the Golden Age of home
FANDOM
At Visual News, Benjamin Starr writes about a huge collection of animated GIFs created by gamer/redditor RudeBootie. More than 125 images display beat'em up backgrounds from classic titles like Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Darkstalkers, and many more sans the fighting action. Conceptually, this project is on
FILM
Come see a one-night-only screening of the award-winning documentary The Space Invaders: In Search of Lost Time by Jeff Von Ward, a recent graduate of the M.F.A. in Writing program at California College of the Arts. Among other things, Jeff edits the popular City Lights podcast series, Live!