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.
ANIMAL CROSSING NEW HORIZONS
Huidi Xiang, my playbench in the workground, 2021 Huidi Xiang's sculptures are based on the life-simulation game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a video game that achieved huge popularity during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Xiang' combines the idea of “personal paradise” the game
CALL FOR ARTWORKS
The fifth edition of the MACHINIMA FILM FESTIVAL will once again take place at IULM University (Milan, Italy) during the Milano Digital Week, which celebrates the driving forces that are reshaping art, culture, and technology of Italy’s most vibrant city. Filmmakers and video artists engaged in the practice of
3D ANIMATION
Eduard Tucaković, Monolith As part of our ongoing series of conversations with practitioners using game-based technology to make art, we chatted with Eduard Tucaković, a 25 year old artist from Croatia who has been using the Source Filmmaker in unexpected ways, because "the street finds its own uses
AI
Cory Arcangel /roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ Let's Play: HOLLYWOOD Greene Naftali Gallery, New York March 5th - April 17th, 2021 "/roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ (pronounced like "Rodeo" in "Rodeo Drive") is a one of a kind Deep-Q machine learning super computing system which can play, and learn as it
ART GAME
10th International Games and Playful Media Festival from July 21 – 24, 2021. Award submissions are open now, until April 30, 2021. HYPER Birthday, A MAZE. / Berlin! Press release: One of the few things that are sure this year? A MAZE. / Berlin is celebrating its 10th birthday with a Hyper Hybrid
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Pioneers in Machinima: The Grassroots of Virtual Production by Tracy Gaynor Harwood (De Montfort University), Ben GrussiVernon Press, 2021This important new work focuses on the pioneers in machinima, considered to be the grassroots and beginnings of virtual production. Machinima’s impacts are identified by the community, supplemented by Harwood and
COLLABORATION
In 2021, the Game Arts International Network organizes the The Game Arts International Assembly, a "stretched symposium for game art curators and game community organizers." In 2021, it is organizing a flotilla of events, including nine sessions spread over two months with 35 people participating as speakers and
ART GAME
YuliyaKozhemyako aka Supr has just released a minimalist abstract game titled On a Clear Day, based on the eponymous graphic series of artist Agnes Martin. Here's a more detailed description: On a Clear Day is the name of one of Agnes Martin’s works where she first introduced
ACADEMIC COURSE
Carina Erdmann, a researcher at LUCA, research unit 'Inter-Actions' in Brussels, is the catalyst behind this phenomenal series of online symposia: "This is an invitation to conspire. The series of online workshops conjures synergies between the fields of performance, LARP, game design and media theory. The
ART GAME
NOW PLAY THIS! A Festival of Experimental Game Design March 25-28 Online "This year, Now Play This explores the relationship between play, games and the climate crisis. Due to the pandemic, we are once again running a fully online festival. Join us for a four-day programme of
3D ANIMATION
MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL MMXXI: FROM VIDEO GAMES TO VIDEO ART March 15-21 2021 Online event Milan, Italy An official event of the Milan Digital Week, the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL showcases audiovisual non-interactive works produced with video games otherwise known as machinima. This year, the retrospective will take place
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