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
"'The Art of Ping Pong' is the outcome of a brief by Jono Sandilands to encourage more people to play table tennis and received commendation at 2008/09 YCN annual student awards. The Art of Ping Pong records where the ball makes contact with the table during
ART GAME
Eye-Machine III (Courtesy of Neural) Three must read articles and features on Game Art: Regine Debatty reviews the latest edition of GAMERZ (We Make Money Not Art). Harun Farocki interviewed by Daphe Dragona (Neural). Coaching Ludique (Art Game Week 3) (Ecriture Videoludique, in French). Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Machinima Interactive Film FestivalNovember 8 - December 8 2012iam8bit studios - 2147 W. Sunset, Los Angeles, CA 90026 The Machinima Interactive Film Festival (MIFF) is a collaboration between Machinima, uber-gallery and publisher iam8bit, and some of the best and brightest machinimakers around. The exhibit ion/festival will run from November 30th
GLITCH
Robert Petrosino, Identiy Crisis, 2010, installation A graduate of The College of the Holy in Worcester, Massachusetts Petrosino is working on his B.A. in Sudio Art. As Petrosino explains "This art work was created by opening the console and connecting pins of certain chips within the motherboard of
ESSAY
Another sublime essay from Douglas Edric Stanley. A tour de force that begins with William Higinbotham's invention... "In 1958, the American physicist William Higinbotham created what is one of the first instances of what we would today call a modern “video game”. The game, named Tennis For
ART GAME
Alex Myers just shared this cool photo gallery documenting the recent event games+++. Check it out here LINK : game++ (more info: Games++_release) Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
EVENT
"A live art gallery event to commemorate the completion of the [now] 900 hour game project In a Permanent Save State. This was the same day as the removal from the Apple store (Oct. 12 2012). A very thick atmosphere of censorship, politics, and art juxtaposed with the beauty
ART GAME
LINK : PLAYING THE GAME 2012 See also: Photo Gallery. Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (Courtesy of VJ VISUALLOOP aka Paolo Branca)
ART GAME
"The Cat and the Coup is a documentary videogame in which you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall. As a player, you coax Mossadegh back
COLLAGE
Mark Wagner, Game Over, 2011, Currency collage and mixed media on panel 12 × 16 inLINK: Mark Wagner Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
Game On! 3. Art is a game October 25 - November 11 2012 CCEBA (Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires) and Cultural San Martín The new edition of the exhibition looked both independent videogames as art, installations and interactive platforms developed by artists specializing in new media and Game-Art
GAME ART
Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Yayoi Kusama, machinima, playable car, 2012 The tenth automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project was appropriated by Yayoi Kusama's bots: "This project is an integral part of Kusama’s entrepreneurial art making collaboration for global brands, including KDDI Corporation (handbag-shaped cell phone)