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.
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In 1998, Austrian collective Netbase t0 organized an exhibition about the potential of the emerging hyperspace called “Synworld”. “Synreal: The Unreal Modification” was part of the main exhibition, and it is now remembered as one of the first collective shows where artists were invited to create Game Art-based installations, in
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Making Things, Breaking Things: Digital DIY Exhibition: Zero Gamer 25-28 Nov Zero Gamer presents games that play themselves, video documents of in-game performance, game engine experiments and challenging documentaries on gameplay. Lecture: Wednesday 25 November 7pm - Corrado Morgana Workshop: Sat 28 Nov 11.00-3.00 - Dorkbot, Bristol -
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FILE - Electronic Language International Festival presents FILE 8 BIT GAME PEOPLE, an event related to FILE GAMES RIO 09, that will be held at Centro Cultural Oi Futuro, from December 02nd to 18th, 2009, from Tuesdays to Sundays, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m and FILE Hypersonica RIO
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Avatar Machine Design Museum - Designers in residence 2009 from MARC OWENS on Vimeo. Thanks to Marc Owens' “Avatar Machine”, we can now behave in real space as if we were playing a third person videogame. This platform replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the
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"Games, a creative form “older than culture,” according to Johan Huizinga, have served humanity in such diverse ways as entertainment, education, exercise, conflict resolution, ritual and self-expression. But not until the 20th century did games and the play experiences they provide start to be perceived as an art form
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GAMERZ 05 festival Association M2F Créations presents the multimedia festival GAMERZ, in Aix-en-Provence, from November 26th until December 4th 2009. Festival opens on Friday November 27th, at 6.30 p.m. GAMERZ 05 tour: _Fondation Vasarely _Seconde Nature _L'Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence _L'
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Nowadays, several artists use videogames for purposes that include political and artistic expression. Examples that come to mind are Gonzalo Frasca’s celebrated September 12th, a Flash-game about terrorism in the world post-911 or Escape from Woomera, a modification of Half-Life, about a refugee camp in Woomera, Australia… The list
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Tobias Bernstrup, Palle Torsson, "Museum Meltdown" (1996) In 1996, two Swedish art students created what is now considered the first example of an artistic modification of a videogame in Scandinavia, if not in the world. Palle Torsson and Tobias Bernstrup started their artistic career with a scandal and
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Gta-Mission, akvarell, 120x280cm. [Image courtesy of the artist] Finnish artist Petri Hytönen (1963-) spent one year in the virtual world of Grand Theft Auto (GTA). He enjoyed the freedom of movement in Rockstar Games' virtual world. Fascinated by the characters and narrative of the virtual metropolis, Petri learned about
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Garnet Hertz's OutRun (2009) Image courtesy of the artistFrom the Project Description page: "This project attempts to combine the real world and OutRun, an arcade driving game released by Sega in 1986. This project features the following components: Cabinet-Car: The car-shaped sit-down arcade cabinet of OutRun is
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Output: 62.500 Materialized Pixels (2000) Virtual Fairytale (2003) Virtual Fairytale 2.0 (2007) [All images courtesy of the artist] If you visited the exhibition Alien Intelligence (2000), right at the entrance to the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, you could literally walk right over Lara Croft. The
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Workspace Unlimited - Invitation Novembre 2009 PERSONNAGES VIRTUELS et effets de presence 6 & 7 Novembre 2009 - UQAM, Montreal. Theme: Personnages virtuels et effets de presence Direction: Louise Poissant et Renee Bourassa Les personnages virtuels médiatisent notre présence dans les mondes du cyberespace ainsi que dans les environnements interactifs