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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Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy, has produced a 3D room installation featured Pac-Man for the recent Babycastles Summit at the Museum of Art and Design. As Kotaku explains, "3D Pacman was created by Dr. Clement Shimizu for Keita Takahashi's Babycastles Summit. Immersive 3D projection system
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Game Play Festival 2011, The Brick Theater Williamsburg Photo: Marjorie Becker/chiptography.com via foci + loci foci + loci is Tamara Yadao and Chris Burke, a Brooklyn based game art duo. They have performed/exhibited at Babycastles, Diapason Gallery, Handmade Music at Culture Fix, Front Room Gallery, Secret Project Robot, The
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David Blandy "ODYSSEYS" solo show Lighthouse, 1-23 September 2012, Brighton Digital Festival 2012 Private View: 6-8pm Friday 31st August Phoenix Brighton, 10–14 Waterloo Place, Brighton, BN2 9NB From the press release: "David Blandy's new exhibition, Odysseys is a visual mash-up of
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Scandinavia is the most exciting place for Game Art as "Heart Games. A celebration of gaming culture", a new exhibition organized by the Östergötlands museum confirms. The event is scheduled for September 22 2012 and features a killer list of contemporary artists engaging with gaming culture, technology, and
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Chris Collins, The Waiting Game, digital game, 2012 Chris Collins' new game is about time wasting. Aptly titled The Waiting Game, the game can be downloaded fro free from the artist's website. Available for Mac and PC, it requires the player to procrastinate endlessly: "Tap your
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Swiss artist Ueli Alder's (1979-) "Detonations" series combines photographs of "real" spaces with virtual elements, specifically, explosions found in war themed videogames. These photoshopped collages are created by mixing various images collected on the internet. The idyllic natural landscapes are juxtaposed with the sheer
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Alan Kwan, a fresh graduate from the City University School of Creative Media in Hong Kong, shares with GameScenes his latest project, Bad Trip, "an immersive interactive system which enables people to navigate my mind using a game controller". Bad Trip combines elements of lifelogging, personal tracking, and
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Here's the full lineup for the Blip Festival Tokyo 2012 music event which will take plance at Koenji High in Tokyo on October 20 and 21. The ARTISTS line-up features Bit Shifter, Nullsleep, Batsly Adams, Sulumi, Bud Melvin, Covox and NNNNNNNNNN, among others. Blip Festival Tokyo 2012
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As a reminder, Babycastles is launching a three day series of talks, exhibitions, and events around the theme of game playscapes at the MAD museum in New York. By the way: Saturday August 25 is all about Japanese shoot'em ups: "Japanese Shmups and the Ascension of Bodshiva
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The insanely juicy Jean Claude Van Jam took place at the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center on August 19 2012. The mighty Ida C. Benedetto was kind enough to post the final presentations online. The event was organized by Babycastles. Enjoy! LINK: Jean Claude Van Jam Posted by Matteo Bittanti
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Francesco Solmi presents Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth Luis de Jesus Los Angeles Gallery SEPTEMBER 8 - OCTOBER 20, 2012 2685 S LA CIENEGA BOULEVARD / LOS ANGELES, CA 90034 Official website Artist's reception: Saturday, September 8th, 6 to 9 p.m. Press release: "LUIS DE
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The Box. 99x99cm. Oil on canvas (2011) link: K. Zetterstrand Kristoffer Zetterstrand. Uncanny Valley. Solo show. August 23 - September 29 Opening August 2 Peter Bergman Gallery, Torsgatan 41, Stockholm. Press release (Swedish only) LINK: Kristoffer Zetterstrand related: GameScenes interview (2010) Submitted by Matteo Bittanti