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.
BOOK
Kent Sheely's new book is now available on Lulu: videogame narrative with a first-person point of view perspective. The title? First Person: War Stories from Gamespace. Additional information about Sheely's ludic performances can be found here and here. Below is the full synopsis: "Avid
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
GAME ART
Evan Roth, Angry Birds All Levels, 2012 An American artist based in Paris "who applies a hacker philosophy to an art practice that visualizes transient moments in public space, online and in popular culture", Evan Roth loves all sorts of games. Angry Birds All Levels "comments on
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
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
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
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
EVENT
"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 the
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 free economic
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