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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The Fields of Algorithms Curated by David Blandy Thursday 13 May 2021, 8PM Online event The One Minutes Series for May and June explores how video games turn gamers into filmmakers with The Fields of Algorithms, a mixtape of poetic machinima, curated by David Blandy. The British artist will stream
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In 1987, Italian photographer Fabio Ponzio embarked on a photographic odyssey across Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. He began his journey in Istanbul, Turkey and later made his way through Romania, Hungary, and other countries, equipped with a Leica, three Nikons and 100 rolls of film, as the
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Florian Hofnar Krepčik Is it real Love? Of course not! April 30 - May 13 2021 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org Is it real love? Of course not! is a unique film entirely shot with/in Driver: San Francisco, a 2011 video game by Ubisoft set in the Bay
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Press release: The WORLD AT PLAY summer school is a part of a Voluptas research project into the intersection between game design, architecture and ludic pedagogy. “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work
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Press release: The One Minutes Series of May/June is ‘The Fields of Algorithms’ and is curated by David Blandy. ‘The Fields of Algorithms’ is a mixtape of poetic machinima lasting exactly one minute. The 23 selected videos were sent in from Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United
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LAN PARTY NOTES digital video (1280 x 720), sound, color, 10’ 20”, 2013 (United Kingdom) Created by Mateus Domingos VRAL Introduced by Riccardo Retez LAN Party was an installation originally created by Vanilla Galleries in collaboration with Arc-Vel and Dexter and Finbar Prior, at the Two Queens art gallery in
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Image: Keiken, Battle of Reality, 2021, Commissioned by Daata and The Bass Image: Bob-Bicknell Knight, We've been here before, 2021, Commissioned by Daata and The Bass We’ve Been Here Before, 2021 is a new CGI film by Bob Bicknell-Knight, concerning the boundaries between public and private space,
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Alan Kwan and Allison Yang Jing recently completed the experimental game Forgetter in collaboration with DSL COLLECTION. In the game the player works for a tech company that cleans all the trauma or dark memories in dead artist brains, and then recycles and sells these artistic brains to parents who
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Dyson & Womack, public art curators, are working with the State of California to select artists and artworks to be included in the Digital Art Call for Entries for the Public Art CA collection. Public Art CA is a contemporary art collection commissioned for the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA)
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Michael Samyn, Compassie, 2021 (screenshot) Artist, designer, and professor Michaël Samyn has just released Compassie, an artistic software program for tethered VR. Compassie is a virtual reality diorama with the theme of pietà. The player takes the place of the holy virgin holding the lifeless body of Christ. And she
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In this short machinima, Ewan Wilson examines the notion of asphyxia via Tomb Raider (1996). This work was originally featured in the second issue of video art magazine Emerge, As Wilson writes: Two of the most common symptoms of anxiety and stress are shortness of breath and feelings of suffocation.
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Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra continue his bold investigation/reinvention of Quake III Arena (id Software, 1999) with another machinima (1920 x 816) that redefines the very boundaries of the medium. With IGNIIITION, Veenstra portraits a 1-vs-1 'Tournament' style duel within Quake III Arena, representing the three