ART GAME
Art Game: Kaspar Manz' "ID: Ich, Du (und alle anderen)" (2011)
Link: Kaspar Manz Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
Matteo
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.
ART GAME
Event: My Life The Video Game @ The Lab (San Francisco, June 3 2011)
The Lab 2948 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Featuring: Brienne Hong, Shaye Hong, Anthony Truong, Kim Daniel - Richardson, Brendan Conklin, Glenda Maxine Zhu, Sloane Zhu, and Tatiana Ariza Friday, June 3, 6 - 9pm Please join us for the one-night exhibition, potluck, and celebration! "My Life: The
ART GAME
Art Game: Douglas Edric Stanley's "Nyan Cat Therapy" (2011)
"Inspired by the Ludovico Treatment for moral reform, Nyan Cat Therapy uses a camera-enabled Macintosh to fully couple the human gaze to the rainbow-riding Nyan Cat. In order to maximize the full effect, subjects are required to download, decompress and exectute the accompagnying application and position themselves face-forward before
ART GAME
Game Art: Matt Davis' Kinect Hack (2011)
"Matt Davis hacks a Kinect using OpenNI & Max/MSP. With it mapped to Ableton live and Henry Strange's MIDI to DMX Laser Control System, Matt demonstrates this fun a/v control system." (Matt Davis) Link: Matt Davis aka Name The Machine related: TEDx_usc Submitted
GAME ART
Game Art: Max Capacity's "Super Toxic Freakout" (2011)
Max Capacity, Super Toxic Freakout series, 2011- LInk: Max Capacity Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
PIXEL ART
Game Art: Max Capacity's new "Cityscapes" (2011)
Max Capacity, Cityscape series, 2010-2011 Link: Max Capacity Related Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
BOOK
Books: LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age
"Valentina Tanni, Random, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011. Soft cover, 114 pages, Italian / English, € 12.00, ISBN: 978-1-4477-1182-7 Miltos Manetas, In My Computer, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011. Soft cover, 102 pages, English, € 12.00, ISBN: 978-1-4477-1939-7 Buy / Download The LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age is proud
TOOL
Tools: Google Theft Auto IV
It is now possibile sleazy streets of Grand Theft Auto IV's take on Liberty City via browser, thanks to the Gargantuan efforts of GTA's most dedicated fans that collected more than 80,000 screenshots. GTA4.net have created custom Street Views of the whole of Liberty
INSTALLATION
Game Art: SixFt12's "Virtual Running with Grand Theft Auto IV" (2010)
"If this were built professionally, I'm sure this would be done electronically instead of mechanically. Figuring out how to make it turn left and right was the most difficult problem because as the elliptical machine handles move forward and back, the distance changes constantly between your hand
ART GAME
Game Art: Jörg M. Colberg's "American Pixels" (2009 - 2010)
"American Pixels’ series is a pixel experiment created by Jörg M. Colberg in (2009 – 2010). ‘Image formats like jpeg (or gif) use compression algorithms to save space, while trying to retain a large fraction of the original information. A computer that creates a jpeg does not know anything about
MODDING
Game Art: dipdop's "Depixelating Mario" (2011)
"Depixelating Mario: this is what video games look like when you round up the vectors… A new algorithm to create smooth vector graphics from pixel art, by Johannes Kopf and Dani Lischinski. Here's their paper." Related: Depixeling Pixel Art Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (via Rhizome, via
EVENT
Interview: ITALIANS DO IT BETTER!! @ Digicult (English - unabridged interview)
I recently discussed the ITALIANS DO IT BETTER!! exhibition with Mathias Jansson. The resulting conversation was published in (abridged form) in Italian on the June 2011 issue of new media art magazine DigiCult. Below is the uncut, unabridged exchange, in English: "Mathias Jansson: At the 2011 Biennal di Venezia