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.
FILM
"This latest addition to the gamer-doc genre tracks down the top world-record-holding Tetris players as they prepare to compete in the 2010 Classic Tetris World Championship. Witness the Masters as they reveal their secrets, recount their decades-long obsession with the game, and enter the transcendental
GAME ART
"It's a video game in a box! Using a Teagueduino and a few inputs and outputs, we put together a physical side-scrolling video game. To control it, there's a knob on the side. As time advances the game gets faster and faster -- can you
VIDEO
"A conceptual art video made using snippets of game footage and user content." (Dan McGarry) Link: Dan McGarry Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
MUSIC
"An extract from the A/V performance "TILT - bit - NOISE" by Alessandro Ragazzo (music) and Valerio Valerio Veneruso (video). "TILT - bit - NOISE" was performed during the final exhibition of a workshop in new media arts by Klaus Obermaier. Player 1: Ableton Live 6 + Yamaha Audiogram
VIDEO
"A young man finds an old Nintendo system but it only has one game, Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!! Though one of the hardest, most brutal games around he starts obsessively playing it only to see the world around him slowly starting to turn 8 Bit. Guided by
MACHINIMA
Baden Pailthorpe's "Formation (difference and repetition) III", 2011 Link: Baden Pailthorpe Related Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
DOCUMENTARY
Link: Jon Rafman Link: A conversation on Rhizome Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
EVENT
Ecriture Videoludique's Nicolas Tilly photo reportage of 8-bit Champions. Link: 8-bit Champions @ Ecriture Videoludique Link: 8-bit Champions Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
Defiant Development, Warco, Digital game, 2011 (in progress). The game casts the player in the role of a war correspondent. link: Warco link: Warco on WIRED Italy Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
EVENT
Link: Copenhagen Game Collective Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
- Keith Stuart talks to Jason Nelson: "Operating somewhere in between all of those is digital poet and artist Jason Nelson. Born in Oklahoma but now based on the East coast of Australia, Nelson has been producing thought-provoking and anger-baiting interactive works for years, the best known examples
PHOTOGRAPHY
"Nintendo, in partnership with the prestigious agency Magnum Photos, organized the first photo-exhibit in 3D without glasses, on a portable video game console, the Nintendo 3DS. Being the only handheld to take and view pictures in 3D without the use of glasses, the Nintendo 3DS was given to