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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Can somebody please fully develop this game, Yuppie Paradise? Till Nagel's students Florian Kohne, Hans-Peter Kadel, Hannes Hoepfner, and Ferdi Hansen began working on the project in 2009 while completing their degree at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany. The goal? "Players take on the
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The Itagaki Interface is the latest project by Daniele Hopkins and Kyle Duffield. The two formed a collaborative aptly titled Hopkins Duffield. The Itagaki Interface uses the artists' bodies to "challenge exaggerated representations of the human body in the fighting game Dead or Alive, created by Tomonobu Itakagi.
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Banopticon (or Banoptikon) is an online single-player 3D computer game developed by the media arts collective Personal Cinema addressing the issue of immigration to and within the European Union. Under development since January of 2010, the game will be released at the end of April 2013. Personal Cinema collective
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In Bren Watanabe's for(){}; a custom computer application with sound, projection mapped onto three wall mounted paintings, "there is no beginning or end to the game, just collecting and wandering, birthing and consuming, an arbitrary point system rising until your inevitable death and the birth of another
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Tacit Group's "Game Over" performance at the Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Tacit Group is a South Korean "audio-visual performance group established in early 2008 with vision of making new performance art while incorporating various disciplines like electro-acoustic music, contemporary visual
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Brighton-based Ithaca Audio took a " look back at 35 years of video game music (Space Invaders, released in 1978 was the first game to have a continuous soundtrack), picked some of our favourites and mashed them with other tracks we love." (Ithaca) Check out also the previous
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Coll.eo, Remote Play, four layouts, 2013 (Photographs by Kija Lucas) "Four layouts comprised of one diecast RQ-1 Predator drone replica produced by Maisto (as part of their “Fresh Metal Tailwinds” series) or one diecast replica of a Mattel Matchbox SB94 Drone United Alliance (as part of the
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"News report about the Battle of Aleppo, remixed with footage from a custom ArmA 2 campaign based on the Syrian Civil War." (Kent Sheely) This is absolutely brilliant. LINK : Kent Sheely Submitted by Matteo Bittanti Related articles Book: Kent Sheely's "First Person: War Stories from
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Image: Portal, Valve, 2007 Abstract: "The videogame Portal is an algorithmic exploration of human struggle against algorithmic processes that have superseded their original intended purpose. The game explores the search for freedom from such computational processes. The freedom presumed in the portal gun - which allows access where there was
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Video directed by Zachariah Lewis. Produced and edited by Summer Dunsmore. Not to be missed: Block x Blog: "Every Subculture event is based on a foundational piece of pop culture. For the Block x Blog Festival, we’ve found solace in the Arcade. 8-bit Sound. Analog experiences. Video
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"Game Art is a relatively new artistic practice that uses digital gaming as its inspiration or medium. In the last two decades, several artists have appropriated technological, aesthetic, and conceptual elements of electronic games to create artworks ranging from paintings to sculptures, repurposed games and site-specific installations. Among
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C64-demo by Hack n Trade 2013. Acid T*rroreast (graphics), Goto80 (sound), Mathman (code). Video by axiscascade. LINK : Raquel Mayers Submitted by Matteo Bittanti