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.
BOOK
Eddie Lohmeyer Unstable Aesthetics Game Engines and the Strangeness of Modding Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 Description: Throughout the 1990s, artists experimented with game engine technologies to disrupt our habitual relationships to video games. They hacked, glitched, and dismantled popular first-person shooters such as Doom (1993) and Quake (1996) to engage players
GAME
OTOGARDEN is a musical game about free improvisation designed by Costantino Oliva. Players can explore their musicality in a Japanese garden atmosphere, control a mischievous kappa, a traditional yokai spirit, and feel the musical possibilities of your surroundings. The game was created for research purposes as a tool to demonstrate
GAME
Participatory Worlds was launched in 2020 thanks to an effort by Bournemouth University in the UK and supported by Arts Council England. The project is led by José Blázquez. "This project investigates three creative practices (‘machinima’, in-game photography and gamics) performed by audience members, normally end-users, which make use
ART GAME
Angela Washko Point of View February 18–April 25, 2021 STUK — House for Dance, Image & Sound Naamsestraat 96, 3000 Leuven, Belgium STUK.BE Curator: Karen Verschooren, STUK STUK is delighted to present the first European survey exhibition of American artist and interventionist Angela Washko (b. 1986). Angela Washko is
GAME ART
REASONABLE_3 digital video (1920 x 1080), sound, color, 3’ 33”, 2020 (United States/Italy) Created by COLL.EO VRAL February 12 - February 25 2021 Introduced by Random Parts Volatile. Fiery. Flaming. Heated. In flames. Sizzling. Gleaming. Alight. Ignited. Automobile. Car. Wagon. Truck. Van. Law Enforcement. Siren. Horn. Warning.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Excellent essay on the practice of in-game photography by EuroThug4000. LINK : EuroThug4000
MAGAZINE
Essential piece on art, video games and photography by Gideon Jacobs on the February 2021 issue of ARTFORUM. A key passage: But it’s possible that a better approach to the issue removes technology from the equation entirely. Instead of Hershel, we might refer to the pragmatic definition offered by
3D ANIMATION
True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films A new online series on e-flux Video & Film, programmed by Lukas Brasiskis The series will include a live discussion with some of the participating artists and other guests (date to be announced). Online, various dates Part One | Simulations and (Hyper)Reality
3D ANIMATION
Dear Eidolon Digital video, color, sound, 5’ 58” (United States of America) Written, Filmed, Narrated, and Scored by Carson Lynn Made for the ArtCenter College of Design Graduate Fellowship - Fall 2020 Online exhibition ArtCenter College of Design 950 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena, CA 91105 Dear Eidolon is a machinima
GAME
Hugo Montembeault has just started a new postdoctoral game design research-creation project at the Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) laboratory of Concordia University, Canada, funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et Culture (FRQSC). Montembeault's project is entitled Bug Hunter. Mapping Glitches Trajectories in Game
GAME ART
FEATHERFALL Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 10’ 21”, 2019 (Austria) Created by Total Refusal VRAL January 29 - February 11 2021 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Originally conceived as a video installation, Featherfall is presented on VRAL as a single channel machinima. Adopting the format of the video essay,
COLLABORATION
EVERYDAY DAYLIGHT The Hyperreal Normality of Video Games Interactive in-game lecture performance von Total Refusal & Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis January 14 2021 at 7PM Watch it on Twitch Together with Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, Total Refusal does art in video games, and this time they explore the city of Los Santos