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.
ART GAME
Christopher Flower is a Montreal-based artist. His multi-disciplinary art practice draws from a variety of sources: conceptual art, illusionism, do-it-yourself invention, and Wikipedia. Between 2007 and 2008, Flower created a series of playful installation: Streetari (2007), a two-channel video installation in the form of a ‘kinetic analog game’ which he
GAME ART
Performance by Christine Webster aka Wildo Hofmann: "LIMBIC is the third virtual 3D immersive sound composition i made in a game-like environement. Here we are on a Second Life simulation on Yuanjiao. The project was finished on January 2011and got the opportunity to be shown 3 month as a
ARCADE
Arcades are dead therefore they are cool again. In fact, all dead media are alive and kicking, in a zombie-like state. As Mashall McLuhan suggests, we live in the age of perpetual/pervasive revivals. Take the First Friday's Artcade initiative which resuscitated 30 arcade cabinets for a massive
GAME ART
Canadian artist Andre Elijah uses Maya to pay homage to the geometrical beauty of Mirror's Edge - another proof that digital games are environmental rather than narrative-driven. LINK : Andre Elijah Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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"The Technoculture, Art and Games Research Centre (TAG) at Concordia University presents ‘Gaming Beyond Screens,’ a public symposium and arcade featuring digital games focused on physical interaction, movement and space. The symposium speakers include game designers, Bart Simon (TAG/Concordia), Doug Wilson (Die Gut Fabrik), Kaho Abe (Eyebeam Art
FANDOM
Yet another selection of stills about glitched sims from simsgonewrong - As I mentioned before, I have a morbid fascination for this tumblr. It is much more intriguing than most of contemporary art I see in galleries (perhaps I am visiting the wrong galleries, mea culpa). Seriously: the grandma in
GAME ART
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
EVENT
Nikita Rokotyan is a Creative developer and Interactive designer from Yekaterinburg, Russi. V2V is a collaborative project developed by two teams - one American and one Russian - in Minecraft. As Rokotyan explains: "The idea of the project was to create an art object for Titanium Valley — recently established
ART GAME
Piet Mondrian is especially loved by artists using games as a means of expression and source of inspiration. Consider, for instance, Tembac, Coll.eo, Zephyru Zapedzki and Budget Boys , just to name a few. Now, Portuguese artist Ana Carina Figueiredo, an MFA student in Technology and Digital Art at the
ART GAME
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
ART GAME
A new meta-game from Pippin Barr (The Artist is Present, 2011) may be the best way to start the week. Tetris sculptures at the MoMa? This is fun. "Experience the exhilaration of making art you really believe in! Experience the agony of rejection by the curatorial team! Consider selling
INTERVIEW
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