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.
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!
GAME ART
Mike Pelletier - who created, among other things, CuteXDoom (2009) with Anita Fontaine (an impressive series of art game mods based on Unreal Tournament 3) - has produced the most amazing Kinect-based art I have seen so far. These portraits make full use of the 3D scanning capabilities of Microsoft&
DANCE
Image credit: Handmade Studios "Space Maestro is an interactive Kinect experience that enables players to create their own musical universe through free-form movement in physical space. By spatially moving both hands like a maestro conducting an orchestra, players fuse gas clouds in space into stars. As new stars are
BOOK
Photo by: Håkon ‘Archmage’ Repstad, Mark Thomas ‘Aumtron’ Ross and Jake ‘Jellica’ Manley (source: Click Festival) Swedish 8-bit master-of-disaster Goto80 is about to unleash his book Computer Rooms to unsuspecting legions of geeks. Expect "A photo collection of private computer rooms, often featuring older machines. A rarely documented aspect
GAME ART
Marc Owen's Avatar Machine - first mentioned on GameScenes five years ago - "replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. The system potentially allows for a diminished
GAME ART
Phil Solomon; Empire, 2008-2012. HD video, 48 minutes Phil Solomon: Before and After the Falls @ Young Projects, Los Angeles (Part of Design Lab at the Pacific Design Center) Opening Thursday May 16th 6pm to 9pm Through August 2, 2013 "Known as one of the key filmmakers of the American
BOOK
If you read Italian, here's a book for you: An edited collection of essays on machinima featuring a variety of contributions on topics ranging from art to performance, appropriation and subversions. This is part of the ongoing Ludologica books series. Ttitle: Machinima! Teorie. Pratiche. Dialoghi. Edited by: Matteo
GAME ART
Roger Machado deconstructs vintage Atari games. Above: 1N=V4S10N. Below: Else_3rr0r. Both projects were released in 2012. LINK: Roger Machado related Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ARCADE
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
A video of Marcel Conrado's interactive installation for Monstros, an exhibition that took place between Oct 12- Jan 13 2013 at the MUMA (Museu Metropolitano de Arte de Curitiba) of Portão, Curitiba - Brazil. LINK: Marciel Conrado Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
I tragically missed the UCLA Game Arts Festival 2013 this year, but the mighty Jonathan B. at Things to Do in LA has unleashed one of his killer reports. The first episode can be found here. The second is here. Can't wait to read more. Sneak preview: "
GAME ART
A 25-minute video of Marco Mendeni's live piece that took place in Berlin on January 29, 2013. "I’m not playing" is an audiovisual performance the investigates the relationship between the videogame medium and the culture of simulation in the digital era. As Mendeni writes, "