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
"A project based on the "detournement" of the game "Super Mario Bros." and the keyholders "Soundrop". Concept: The Soundrops are similar to a musical instrument and the pre-recorded video to the score. The players use the eight Soundrops of the Super Mario Bros.
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Marieke, Pole Position, installation, 2010 'Pole Position is a racing video game released for the Atari in 1982. In this game, the player controls a Formula One race car. Pole Position was the leading game in arcades worldwide due to its relatively realistic graphics for the time. The game
GAME ART
Klaus Thejll Jakobsen, PSOne, paper, 1999 Link: Klaus Thejll Jakobsen Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
"WIWTFBO is an upcoming free PC game inspired J.G. Ballard's infamous short story, "Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan" (1970). From one of the creators of "We Want YOU". Credits: "Washington Post March" (public domain recording). "Southern Cross&
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FIDELITY is a dance and digital art collaboration between dance artist Natalia Brownlie and digital artist Rodrigo Carvalho. The performance is based on a hacked version of Microsoft's Kinect. Link: Fidelity Link: Rodrigo Carvalho Sumbitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
Chris O'Shea, Air Guitar prototype, 2007-2011 (more information here)" In 2007 I attempted to make a simple Air Guitar prototype using a stereo camera (watch video). Unfortunately it didn’t work very well. You had to stand very still and the depth image wasn’t as clean
GAME ART
Arno Coenen, Rob Coenen, Rene Bos, "Output: 62.500 materialized pixels", installation / floor mosaic "The mosaic is made out of 62.500 pieces of glas. Each piece represents on pixel of a low resolution digital image (measuring 250x250 pixels). The pixel image shows Lara Croft, the virtual
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link: normunds ozols Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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"To commemorate the 25th Game Developer's Conference, iam8bit was invited to conceive of something swanky that would engage festival-goers. An art installation plus social experiment, PAINTING WITH PIXELS is a tribute to the perseverance of the pixel through several decades of gaming culture. Despite polygons prevailing in
ART GAME
Interactive pinboard - Kinect Hack - presented at Transmediale 2011. Link: Achim Kern Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
"SIDE EFFECT is an installation art with one table, many white cubes and a shiny ball. The game is easy: a ball, a hole - the ball has to be navigated into the hole. Just how? And that's what the visitors have to find out themselves. SIDE
GAME ART
"Ancient Pixels is a current work in progress where lo-resolution video game graphics, Andean textile art and psychedelic poster art are merged produce the visual aesthetic and the grammar blocks (via Andean symbol interpretation) of a multi-channel interactive video installation depicting scenes of an imaginary Inca temple. The installation