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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A HAND IN THE GAME digital video, color, sound, 35’ 08”, 2017, Sweden Created by Hillevi Cecilia Högström January 7 - 20 2022 vral.org introduced by Matteo Bittanti A hand in the game is a video essay documenting the artist’s experience with SimPark (1996), a simulation published by
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The latest project by Jordy Veenstra, one of the most talented filmmakers working today with the medium of machinima, is titled Experience, a visual study of a virtual fairground from a multitude of perspectives. Veenstra used Virtual Rides III, a funfair simulation game developed by German studio pixelsplit in which
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Why don't the cops fight each other? digital video, color, sound, 9’ 41”, 2021, United States of America, 2021 Created by Grayson Earle Made with support from Media Art Exploration and Akademie Schloss Solitude vral.org Why don’t the cops fight each other? is a desktop documentary
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The MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL is an annual event showcasing audiovisual non-interactive works produced with video games otherwise known as machinima. The fifth edition will take place between March 21-27 in Milan, Italy. The call for submissions is open until December 15 2021. Check out the past editions: MMF 2021, MMF
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Ask not what the metaverse can do for your art, but ask what your art can do for the metaverse. Check out Serpentine R&D platform's briefing for more insights. LINK: FUTURE ART ECOSYSTEMS: ART x METAVERSE,
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Artist and filmmaker Gina Hara, the recipient of the 2021 Milan Machinima Festival's Critics Choice Award among other things, will deliver At the end, her residency presentation at Ada X, a feminist artist-run center based Montreal with a focus on media arts and digital culture tomorrow, Thursday, December
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Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 Berlin December 15-18 2021 Livestream on 18.12. “Quadrat Sampling E-Ecologies” will consist of two different sessions: In an “introducing workshop” the game and its environment are explored. This will be done through a series of field research tools that have been converted for a digital
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HTTPGSAB_Desktop Runthrough by Peter Basma-Lord Event: SCREEN\DOORWhen: Thursday December 9 at 7PM ESTHosted by: Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, New York, USA)LINK: SCREEN/DOOR In-person at VSW and streaming online, curated by swampbabes SCREEN/DOOR will feature several members and friends of the swampbabes community across the earth
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THE STRUGGLE IS REAL is curated by CLUSTERDUCK Live Commentary by WADE WALLERSTEIN Hosted by GREEN CUBE GALLERY The first artist tournament set in Fondazione Spara — an online survival multiplayer video game by Riccardo Rudi and Superinternet — taking place in the context of this fall Green Cube Gallery’s new
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> LIPSTRIKE live recording of online performance digital video (1280 x 720), sound, color, 10’, 2021 [2016], France Created by Chloé Desmoineaux vral.org Originally created in 2016, Lipstrike is an online performance in Counter-Strike that uses an unusual device as a weapon: a lipstick. Each time the artist applies
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This looks phenomenal: an immersive non-fiction visual work by artists Mariam Natroshvili and Detu Jincharadze is a 20-minute virtual tour entitled The City Was Asleep and It Had a Dream. In their creation, Natroshvili and Jincharadze provide an accurate and penetratic portrait of the urban architecture of Georgia's
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Virtual Realms: videogames transformed Guest Curator: Tetsuya Mizuguchi Associate Curator: Patrick Moran Curatorial Development: Chloe Wood Singapore (June 2021 – Jan 2022) Perth, Australia (March 2022 – June 2022) Melbourne, Australia (Oct 2022 - March 2023) Virtual Realms: videogames transformed is an immersive, multi-sensorial exhibition that transports videogames from the screen to