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
The latest project by Russian visionary artist and designer Mikhail Maksimov, Crowd Sign: Emission, is now available on itch.io. Players can draw signs and watch the action unfolds while exploring a monochrome, dreadful desert world in first person. Behind the relatively vague premise, Crowd Sign is a powerful commentary
3D ANIMATION
36,000 feet Digital video, color, sound, 7’36”, 2021, Switzerland Created by Matthieu Cherubini February 4 - 17 2022 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org 36,000 feet is a video game set aboard a commercial plane flying over Afghanistan. As a passenger returning to his country from a holiday
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Minor Daemon, 2021, video still. Courtesy the artist Jon Rafman ₳Ɽ฿ł₮ɆⱤ Ø₣ ₩ØⱤⱠĐ₴ Opening February 10, from 6 – 9 PM Feb 11 – Mar 26, 2022 Wed – Sat, 2 – 7 PM, and on appointment info@ordet.org press@alpha-bravo-charlie.com press release: The word egregore originates from
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Wolfpath.exe digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 4’ 04”, 2017, Turkey Created by Kadir Kayserilioğlu January 21 - February 3 2022 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org Updating a traditional origin myth through video game aesthetics, Wolfpath.exe is a meta-commentary on contemporary Turkey from the perspective of
FLIGHT SIMULATOR
Sebastian Schmieg Lights Will Guide You Home (Takeoff) Panke.Gallery, Berlin, Germany Friday January 21 2022 7-10 pm On Twitch and YouTube, gamers stream how they fly over a digital copy of our world using flight simulation software - some curious, others dutiful, and quite a few in the service
3D ANIMATION
"Dance when the booster gets down": this is where we are now. The virtual alter-ego of Oscar Wagenmans - a Dutch theatre director and actor - SaveMe Oh is an infamous character in Second Life, where she is often labelled as a troll, griefer and even virus. The artistic
EVENT
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 Californian
3D ANIMATION
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
EVENT
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
3D ANIMATION
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
METAVERSE
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,
EVENT
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,