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.
CFE
key information * Submission deadline: 19 February 2026 (free to enter). * Exhibition dates: 18 August–11 October 2026. * Venue: Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo. * How many proposals: up to three projects per applicant, with works produced in the last three years (2024–2026). FILE — the Electronic Language International Festival, has opened
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Amant’s autumn programme gives Lu Yang a New York institutional solo framed explicitly around iteration: birth, death, reload. DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe runs in Brooklyn from 18 September 2025 to 15 February 2026, unfolding across Amant’s spaces at 306 Maujer Street. The exhibition centres on DOKU, a
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Chloé Desmoineaux presents Deviant Game Space , a space-time that brings together creators and amateurs around an alternative video game factory. Saturday, January 17, 2026, 2-4 p.m. Espace Pluriel Jeunes d'Istres, Istres Media Library, NEXUS – virtual reality space and Micro-Folie d'Istres with the OutLows Gaming association,
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Machinimentary: 1993, San Andreas. digital video, color, sound, 1 hour, 43 minutes, 33 seconds, 2023, various (possibly: Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, China and Switzerland). created by Pastinaca Videotapes Plantation (PVP) introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org Machinimentary: 1993, San Andreas. is a feature-length pseudo-documentary that treats the snowbound streets of Grand
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A Brief History of Technology & Art in China, Chapter One: Computer-Based Art December 26 2025–26 January 2026 Chongqing Contemporary Art Museum No. 108 Huangjueping Zhengjie, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, China. Hours 9:00–17:00, last entry 16:30, closed Mondays (free admission) Chongqing Contemporary Art Museum is currently
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Erwin Wurm: Life Beat Soft Melt Digital Twin Edition Ludwig Museum Koblenz Kuratiert von Prof. Dr. Beate Reifenscheid und Jérôme Sans Digital Twin Edition und AI Art Mediation: Walter’s Cube Erwin Wurm’s Life Beat Soft Melt, shown at Ludwig Museum Koblenz from 5 September to 23 November 2025,
BOOK
Photography, Video Game, Landscape (Editions IDPURE, 2025), 128 pages, 30 × 22.5 cm, 76 photographs, French/English; with contributions by Claus Gunti and Matteo Bittanti, plus a conversation with Nadine Franci. Pascal Greco’s new monograph, Photography, Video Game, Landscape, extends a practice that has steadily shifted in-game photography away
GAME ART
Vojtěch Luksch’s new solo exhibition, Artefacts, takes place at Okraje Gallery (Žižkova 250/2, 390 01 Tábor, Czech Republic) between November 28 2025 and January 7 2026. The first thing Vojtěch Luksch shows you is a weapon. A first-person shotgun rises from the lower edge. Bodies leak into snow.
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Monument Valley: The Trilogy National Videogame Museum Castle House, Angel Street, Sheffield, S3 8LN, United Kingdom 19 December 2025 – 4 January 2026 This December, the National Videogame Museum (NVM) turns its galleries into a walkable thought experiment, hosting Monument Valley: The Trilogy, a showcase devoted to ustwo games’ celebrated puzzle
GAME ART
What stays with you is the noise. The image? Not so much. After all, most of the screen is occupied by negative space: a 16:9 slab of black, as if the monitor had nodded off, punctured by a few pale specks that resolve, if you pay attention, into bodies.
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Side Quest for the Real: live action, art, and social fictions in Geneva December 3–21, 2025 Curated by Christian Bili and Samuel Wagen-Magnon Le Commun, Geneva, Switzerland For the Win (FTW) presents the second edition of Art, jeu & société, an ambitious initiative dedicated to artistic practices engaging with
PAINTING
A dark-skinned avatar, seen from behind in a white tank top, sits exactly where the polished concrete floor meets a painted horizon. In front of him the city has slipped its grid. Freeway ramps float at odd angles, billboards hang without supports, staircases rise into nothing. Between fragments of stucco