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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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,
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Roger Machado deconstructs Nintendo's seminal platform game. LINK: Roger Machado Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Australian artist Georgie Roxby Smith's latest project features Lara Croft performing a series of mundane activities. As Smith writes, "[F]or the first time in 2013 was re-imagined by a female writer, deeply conscious of finding a balance between “a man with boobs” and exploring areas
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Cable Griffith, World Two Overview (Night), 2013, acrylic on canvas, 58 x 40 inches CASCADIA May 31 - June 21, 2013 Reception: May 31, 5 - 9pm Collar Works Troy, New York Exhibiting artists include: Aja Rose Bond, Anna Fidler, Michelle Forsyth, Cable Griffith, Britta Johnson, Molly Magai, and Ryan Molenkamp. "
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"Dadaist Game Art: The Digital Ready-Made and Absurdist Appropriation." This game installation promises the "excitement, glamour, fear, violence and mayhem of a genuine Middle Eastern battle!" and features "the revolutionary Borgcycle™, a sensor equipped bike that allows/forces users to get a heart-pounding
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By far, one of the most exciting Game Art projects of the year. related: Ready for Action #1, Ready for Action #2, Ready for Action #3, Ready for Action #4, Ready for Action #5, Ready for Action #6, Ready for Action #7, Ready for Action #0 Bonus Round LINK : Kent
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"Ready, aim, fire: based on these three orders commonly used in video games, Tempo scaduto is an interactive installation which places the spectator in the paradoxical situation of having to take up position both physically as well as intellectually and morally, faced with an image and a story that
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Coll.eo, YOU ARE DEAD (2013) "YOU ARE DEAD is a commercially obtainable single line electronic display sign that Coll.eo has programmed to visualize a series of statements relating to death and its ramifications in video games. The statements take the form of quotes, judgments, and sentences. Overall,
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"In this video, artist Cory Arcangel and adjunct curator of new media arts Christiane Paul discuss Arcangel's work Various Self Playing Bowling Games (2011), on view in the exhibition Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools." (Whitney Museum) LINK: Cory Arcangel Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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More public transportation troubles for avatars. Part of Sheely's ongoing series, "Ready for Action". related: Ready for Action #1, Ready for Action #2, Ready for Action #3, Ready for Action #4, Ready for Action #5 LINK : Kent Sheely Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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GLG, an audio/visual piece, remiered at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) on April 25, 2013, as part of the "Music and Games" multimedia concert. Werner deconstructed a classic arcade game, Galaga and wrote a series of detailed posts to
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On one level, the video below shows a bug in the latest version of SimCity, released last March among much controversy. At the same time, this glitch is instant art. This creepy multiplications of garbage trucks reminds me of the horrors of Kaufman's Invasions of the Body Snatchers