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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Games by the Book: An ExhibitCurated by Clara Fernández-Vara & Nick Montfort MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Ave. Building N51 Cambridge, MA 02139 "People can't get enough of stories--we're always seeking to re-experience them, in different forms and versions. Myths have been transformed
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Graphic designer, sculptor, music lover, and art director Darren Wall is launching a new publishing project called Read-Only Memory, a series of books on classic and not-so-classic videogames and their makers. This monograph series, which joins Italy's Ludologica, will feature cutting edge design and pixel-
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"Artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand talks about how computer games have influenced his painting and will describe his process, from sketching virtual still-lifes using game engines, landscape generators, and 3-D software to the finished painting. He will also tell how his pictures inspired by pixel art ended up in
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Arse Elektronika 2012 will take place in San Francisco between September 27-30. This year's theme is "4PLAY: Gamifuckation and Its Discontents". Full schedule (and tickets) available here - among the others: Joseph Delappe, Paolo Pedercini, Pietro Righi Riva, Anna Anthropy, Mattie Brice, Eleanor Saitta, Kitty Stryker
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Marie Sester is a French-American media artist whose work "Questions the perspective of the West, and the meta-state of a New World Order". As she writes on her website, Sester employs "archetypes and referents as starting points" reconfiguring "already-existing data or phenomena,
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Kenton Sheely, dust 2 dust, machinima, 2012 There are no "real" characters in the virtual fighting arenas of Counter-Strike. The player is a gun. The gun is a player. Sheely's latest performance illustrates the cycle of life and death in the most iconic CS map.
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Venue: Rock Paper Scissors Collective Address: 2278 Telegraph Ave, Oakland CA Date: September 9 2012, 6-9 pm "Come explore sound synthesis and visuals through game play. Open play time for the new video game, deciball – an arcade music instrument! Also enjoy the sonic landscapes of Bryan Von Reuter
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Tembac latest artworks were presented at CROMA in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The young Argentinian artist is the author of Avantgarde, Vestigios, Psychedelic Experiments and Simphorophilia among other things. Additional details on his website. Enjoy this chromatic over-stimulation: Images courtesy of TembacLINK: Tembac Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Pavilion of the Voltaic Arts Microsoft New England Research and Development Center 1 Memorial Dr Cambridge, MA 02142 November 3 2012 Free Entry "Avant-garde heralds of the videogame art uprising, Zoe Quinn, game developer and founder of Dames Making Games, and Courtney Stanton, game producer and founder of
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Joseph Delappe, Taliban Hands, 2012 Objet Connex 3d Prints "Taliban Hands" is the title of Joseph Delappe's latest sculpture project. Depicted above are the 3D prints of the polygonal sculptures that he produced last year. As Delappe's explain on his website, these are "
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Complete playthrough: EXO is Tabor Robak's new project. Synthetic meditation that mixes Samsara's like visuals with demoscene techniques, EXO is a visual feast. A first-person experience reaching transcendental levels, literally and metaphorically. Available for both PC and MAC. Born in Portland, Oregon, Robak lives in
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Peter Lu's "THE SLAB" is a custom game controller for Mark Essen’s fighting game NIDHOGG. What is this beauty made of? "Surface made from solid cast cement and finished with a beeswax and olive oil mix. A sealed mdf framed was used as a