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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Casey Reas, Chronograph, 2011 "Next Tuesday will be our last LAVA meeting of 2011, and we look forward to welcoming Casey Reas, the co-founder of Processing, and Xárene Eskandar, the author of ‘vE-”jA: Art + Technology of Live Audio-Video. Casey will be presenting his latest generative visual work at
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"Rhizome New Silent Series event: The Kill Screen Dialogues When are games more than games? When they are communicating with others? Although videogames are bigger than ever, they are often perceived as cultural silos and not in conversation with other art forms or cultures. In conjunction with videogame arts
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A great video reportage by Nicolas Tilly about Game Story, the new exhibition about the history and aesthetic development of videogames @ the Grand Palais of Paris. Game Story. Une histoire du jeu vidéo Grand Palais, Galerie sud-est, Paris, France 10 novembre 2011 – 9 janvier 2012, curated by Jean-Baptiste Clais related
ART GAME
"A game not about fighting, but a game about already having lost. Houses of the Holy is a large scale media arts project which infuses vintage programming techniques, stylized visuals, and an abstract narrative to create its whole. Installed in a gallery space, there is no definite end to
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Game Story. Une histoire du jeu vidéo Grand Palais, Galerie sud-est, Paris, France 10 novembre 2011 – 9 janvier 2012, curated by Jean-Baptiste Clais "Apparu au début des années 1970, le jeu vidéo est un média jeune qui n’a cessé d’évoluer et de se perfectionner jusqu’à devenir
DOCUMENTARY
"Les images de guerre sont omniprésentes sur nos écrans. Elles sont diffusées en un flot interrompu qui finissent par émousser notre pouvoir d'empathie : elles deviennent banales. A tel point qu'on ne les voit plus, qu'on ne cherche plus à en saisir la portée.
ART GAME
"Artist Olle Essvik presents "Waiting for" a videogame based on Beckets play Waiting for Godot. Besides a short presentation of the game and its principles, the audience got a preview of the next installment, EndGame, which is in the works." (Matesz Pozar) Video and editing by
ART GAME
"Mary Flanagan is an artist, author, educator and designer. As Professor in Digital Humanities she’s associated with the Dartmouth College in New Hampshire (US). Flanagan is the author of Critical Play: Radical Game Design." (strp.nl) Link: Mary Flanagan Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
"Moshé Elimelech’s abstract bas-reliefs propose that art, like life, is a game of intention and chance. His Cubic Construction Series sport industrial looking forms and surfaces that, despite their perfection, undermine the certainties of Cartesian logic. Playing with and against the grid as a matrix linked to concepts
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Tom Sachs' "Space Program 2.0: Mars". Showing at NYC's Park Avenue Armory, May 2012. Sachs uses a variety of tools to simulate space exploration in his performance, including Atari's Lunar Lander (1979), briefly seen in the trailer. From May 18 through June
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"A rad night of gaming, music, art and booze AND gourmet hotdogs this time, too... Which, let's face it, drastically improves pretty much any scenario." (Aaron Hobbs) My kind of party. I love the mix and the vibe. This format is becoming increasingly popular all over
ART GAME
VOXATRON by Lexaloffle Games WAY by Coco & Co AT A DISTANCE by Terry Cavanagh PROTEUS by Ed Key and David Kanaga CHASING AURORA by Broken Rules CROSSOUT by Coconut Island Studio These are the games that will be on show at the next Lunarcade: Indie Games Circus event in