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
Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Maurizio Cattelan), machinima, playable car, 2012 The ninth automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a 2011 BMW X6, was appropriated by Maurizio Cattelan's assistants: "For this project, Cattelan appropriated a 2011 BMW XM6 and covered its otherwise otherwise pristine roof top with pigeons’
EVENT
CORY ARCANGEL: MASTERS November 3, 2012 – January 27, 2013 " MASTERS presents works that reflect Arcangel’s prolific career from roughly 2002 to the present, including five time-based videos, one modified video game, one modified flatscreen television, a wallpaper installation, and archival materials that touch upon an artistic practice that
ART GAME
Alex Myers and Jeff Thompson are ready to unleash a new edition of games++, "A free 12-hour game development event where participants build games from scratch over 10 hours, then put down their mice and pencils so the public can play their creations." games++ will take place on
DOCUMENTARY
Priceless. Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (via Talks at Google).
BOOK
Avid gamer/reader/artist Mike Ando worked on this project, a physical-digital replica of a linking book that exists only in thg Myst game series, for more than six years. The outcome is very, very meta. His website chronicles his amazing achievement. As he explains: "This is a “working”
BOOK
A video reportage of Assassin's Creed Art (R)Evolution, a recent exhibition on the art of Assassin's Creed hosted by the Leonardo Da Vinci National Museum of Science in Milan, Italy. In Italian. The book/catalog is available here. LINK : Assassin's Creed Art (R)
GAME ART
Shelter Serra, Mario, 2009, oil on canvas, 18”x24” inches Born in Bolinas, California, Shelter Serra graduated in 1994 from University of California at Santa Cruz, California and receive dhis MFA in MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design in 1996. Yes, he is Richard Serra&
GAME ART
Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Barbara Kruger), machinima, playable car, 2012 The eight automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a 1988 BMW M5, was appropriated by Barbara Kruger's avatars "It should not come as surprise that women are blatantly underrepresented in the BMW Art Cars initiative. After all,
DOCUMENTARY
"Let’s Play Max Payne" is the third installment of the DVD Dead Drop project by German artist Aram Bartholl, which will be unveiled at the Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, NY 11106) between October 30 –December 3, 2012. As Bartholl writes on his
ART GAME
"…moi non plus is an interpretation of Serge Gainsbourg's song "Je t'aime moi non plus" in the form of an audio game. By operating the joystick, the human components of the song can be controlled according to selected preferences." (Martin Bircher ) Swiss
GAME
Simon Mitchell, Unblinking, Installation, 2012 (?) Simon Mitchell's new installation, “Unblinking”, was "created from seven columns of directed light which can rotate to track the viewer, or even those just walking by." (Mitchell) The Watch Dogs wikia adds that "The inspiration came from a trip to
GAME
Joy Ndidi Adebayo, You Are What We Say, Installation, 2012 (?) Joy Ndidi Adebayo's new installation, “You Are What We Say”, is comprised of several large LED screens connected to a camera array. The screens replicate how people are behaving in front of them, somewhat like a large digital