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.
EVENT
To celebrate the 1/4 of a century anniversary of iconic beat'em up Street Fighter, the losangelino art arcade collective Iam8bit is launching a massive 50+ artist exhibition aptly titled "Combo Attack". The gig will run August 3rd through August 19th. The fighting bonanza will be
GAME ART
Julian Fong, Street Fighter LEGO, 2012 Built by custom LEGO builder Julian Fong, the Street Fighter mini-fighters took more than 12 months of work. LINK: Julian Fong Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
Bientôt l’été by Tale of Tales Dear Esther by Dan Pinchbeck J.S. Joust by Die Gute Fabrik Lifeless Planet by Stage 2 Studios Memory of a Broken Dimension by XRA Thirty Flights of Loving by Brendon Chung TRIP by Axel Shokk Zobeide – Robert Yang These are the games
ART GAME
Developed by Thi Binh Minh Nguyen and Robert Frentzel, two students in the VR Design Program at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, The Gaudy Woods is a real-time VR stereoscopic game that uses an innovative kinetic controller composed of four tires (!) to guide a series
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Kent Sheely, "Ready for Action: #4: True Crime", digital video, 2' 07", 2012 In the fourth installment of Sheely's "Ready for Action" series - a set of machinima focusing on the daily life of thugs from notoriously violent videogames, from Grand Theft Auto
GAME ART
Aled Davis, Street Fighter Art, digital print, 2012 From Left to right: "Button Basher", "Bros for Life", "Beat’Em Up AKA: Fist of Fei Long Street Fighter prints created for iam8bit’s Street Fighter 25th Anniversary art show, Combo Attack, by Aled Lewis LINK: Aled
GAME ART
The latest A Maze event in Berlin curated by flux and Matthias Löwe: A Night of Machinima IX takes place on Saturday, 28. Juli 2012, Kino K18 in F-Hain @ Kreutziger Str.18 Berlin – Friedrichshain (Entry: 2 euros). Full description: "Together, A MAZE. Night of Machinima and MUTANTENKINO present
GAME ART
"This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. Creating music through motion is at the heart of this creation and uses the power of the Kinect to capture movement and translate it into music which is performed live
ART GAME
TRIP is a 3D exploration art experiment created by Axel Shokk: "There’s not much to it, apparently, just wandering around exploring a world, checking out some animals. But what a world this is. It’s like an acid trip sat down and learned how to program in Unity.
GAME ART
You might remember Stephan Schwingeler's interview on GameScenes. Recently, the German scholar and critic gave an engaging talk about Game Art at ZKM Karlsruhe (in German). Titled "Das digitale Spiel als künstlerisches Material", the video lecture is available via iTunes U (you will also find a
GAME ART
Nicola Traversoni, Loveline, 2012, Mixed technique, 70 x 50 cmNicola Traversoni, Motel, 2012, Mixed technique, 70 x 50 cmNicola Traversoni, Memory, 2012, Mixed technique, 70 x 50 cmNicola Traversoni, Tsunami, 2012, Mixed technique, 70 x 50 cmNicola Traversoni, Old People Home, 2012, Mixed technique, 70 x 50 cmNicola Traversoni, born
DEMOSCENE
"Although existing art media have been transformed in the digital age, the advent of computers has brought new art forms into being. In the past, visual arts and music required both intellectual and physical skills, but in the present, computer programming permits people to make art just by using