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.
GAME ART
This amazing performance features real human beings as they fight for their life in combat-game simulation, Game On. The last artist who did something as daring, creative, and bold was Eddo Stern, in 2001. As Australian artist Michaela Davies writes: " Game On uses electric muscle stimulation (EMS) to
GAME ART
Kent Sheeley's "READY FOR ACTION" puts "video game characters at the mercy of public transportation."In all cases, the soundtrack of the original game(s) (True Crime, Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne and many more) has been blended with audio captured while waiting for
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Following Bit, 2013 (Images courtesy of Coll.eo) FOLLOWING BIT is a new project by Coll.eo. "I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. [...] The way I thought of pieces like Following Piece was, there’s a city out there. I attend
3D ANIMATION
A new groundbreaking series from Jeremy Couillard: One Minute Movies. 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 of acrylic paintings, kinetic sculptures,
GAME ART
Video documentation from Maria Lujan Oulton: " In August Game on! El arte en juego visited Cordoba city invited by Spain Cultural Center. The exhibition was accompanied by a series of activities like talks, workshops and the avant-premiere of Us and the game industry" (Oulton).Related: Interview with
ARCADE
Polybius, the latest video from Scottish artist and filmaker John Houston is a triumph of ludic retronostalgia. Julian Corries performs at the bottom of a pool, surrounded by joysticks, old consoles, monitors, and keyboards. Computer keyboards, that is. All those cables and wires remind me of a Manetas' painting.
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Waco Resurrection (2003 - 2004) All images courtesy of the artists A seminal piece of Game Art developed by Michael Wilson, Eddo Stern, Jessica Hutchins, Brody Condon, Peter Brinson and Mark Allen: "Revisiting the 1993 Waco, Texas episode, gamers enter the mind and form of a “resurrected” David Koresh through
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A video re-cap of one of the most exciting Game Art festivals in the US. More highlights below: LINK: UCLA Gamelab Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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This is quite phenomenal: " Super Mario world-record speedrun + Plumbing inspection footage = Frantic pipe exploration. Speedrun completed by Andrew Gardikis, December 15 2011" (Kent Sheely). This would be a good time to (re)watch Henry Lowood's 2010 talk, "Players are Artists Too": LINK: Kent
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Peacekeeper [Love is a Losing Game] is part of Georgie Roxby Smith's Call of Duty Game Intervention series and is the follow up to Intervention. Here's the documentation: LINK: Georgie Roxby Smith related: interview Submitted by Matteo Bittanti:
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Source: http://europein8bits.com/ Can't wait to see this! Europe in 8 Bits is the new documentary by Spanish director Javier Polo (Turanga Films), due in 2014. "Europe in 8 Bits is a documentary that explores the world of chip music and related art, that is growing
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Source: Yamil Burguener Argentinian artist Yamil Burguener's new installation, yo++ , was recently on display at Game on! El arte en juego . CCEC 2013. yo++ is a game without functional goals that simulates a conversation between the represented reality and the represented subject. The piece raises questions about identity