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
"Dave embodies the fantasy of the banal. He lives in a world of paperwork and office politics not demon slaying and magic. Dave is the fantasy character's fantasy. He doesn't have to worry about warring factions or situations of life and death. Like many Americans,
GAME ART
Photo by Andrew Ho "80s nostalgia vs 80s nationalism. Digital Recording of Atari 2600 ROMs. Bombs ¬ROMs is based on my conflicting feelings toward the 80s. My art is influenced heavily by video game nostalgia. Yet I have, up until now, blissfully ignored the political climate of the era
GAME ART
Matteo Bittanti, Growing avatars, digital photograph of 3D prints, 2011 link
EVENT
"Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools, an exhibition of new work, revolves around the concept of “product demonstrations.” All of the works featured in the exhibition—ranging from video games, single channel video, kinetic sculpture, and prints, to pen plotter drawings—have been created by means of technological tools with an
ART GAME
VJ Visualoop, "Italians Do It Better - Biennale di Venezia", Official trailer, 45", 2011 Italians Do It Better!! is an exhibition curated by Matteo Bittanti & Domenico Quaranta as part of the NEOLUDICA EVENT - ART IS A GAME 2011-1966 at the 2011 Venice Biennale of Art
ESSAY
ThriXXX, Kinect demo game, 2010 "Among the many ways to combine Kinect and sex, the most controversial was a game developed by ThriXXX, a software company based in Austria, who released a demonstrationvideo in December 2010. In the video, the player moves his disembodied “hand” (detected by Kinect’s
ART GAME
Eva & Franco Mattes, My Generation, installation, 2010 "Our world is now defined by digital technologies and communication in ways that we've never experienced before. Therefore, if an artist is to be truly contemporary, he or she must come to terms with that language and transform it
ART GAME
"Interactive game with real physics and kinect motion control. Presented at Design & Reklama exhibition 4-7.04.2011. concept: eps, antokhio; programming: antokhio; bullet physics engine & kinect plugin for vvvv: mr. vux" Link: [in]visible studio Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
"Sometimes it seems as if I were looking at myself from the outside. As if the imaginary camera eye moved away from first person view to third person view. I think it is an error in perception. Brain creates reality in itself after all and senses are only reference
FILM
"This art installation was exhibited in Brorsons Kirke in Copenhagen April 2011. It is a 3-way projection warp (using a Unity3d game engine) on a 120 cm sphere. The title is 'Another Place' and it shows a strange planet with shy lifeforms that tries to get away,
FILM
DESERT III (2011), Vidéo HD, 00:16:20, Production: Arte "Des espaces inhabités, villes et marécages, forêts et routes, des objets et des mots qui disparaissent les uns après les autres, une jeune femme qui se livre et pleure sur Youtube. Inspiré de "La route" de Cormac
ART GAME
Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture (2011) "Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, andBattlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users