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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Total Refusal Sons and True Sons Sat 17.5.2025, 19:00 / HAU2 Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin, Germany Part of “A MAZE. / Berlin 2025 – 14th International Games and Playful Media Festival” Part of “IETM Berlin Plenary Meeting 2025” press release In Sons and True Sons, the Viennese media guerrilla
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The Way of the Future Single-channel UHD video (color), 2-channel sound, 8’ 02”, 2025, Palestine created by Firas Shehadeh May 9-22 2025 vral.org Set against the hauntingly desolate backdrop of The Last of Us video game, The Way of the Future follows a lone figure traversing a decayed territory
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Against the Will, Against Staying StillEsto Association 24 Zaimi str. 10683 Athens GreeceMay 15 - 18 2025curated by Babak Ahteshamipour featuring Erifili Doukeli, Matthew D. Gantt, Berenike Gregoor, Nichole Shinn, Captain Stavros, and Pauvre Terre Against the Will, Against Staying Still is a group exhibition curated by Babak Ahteshamipour that
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press release (MIAMI, FL — April 30, 2025) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is thrilled to announce its inaugural open call for digital art commissions from the crossroads of the Americas. The museum’s first-of-its-kind program offers financial support to produce experimental digital artwork across South Florida, Latin America, the Caribbean,
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Screenshot from Anthology of the Killer (2024) by Stephen GillmurphySEQUENCEBREAK// March 20 - June 28 2025 Curated by Nilson Carroll Visual Studies Workshop 36 King Street Rochester, New York 14608 From March 20 to June 28, 2025, the Visual Studies Workshop presents SEQUENCEBREAK//, a wide-ranging, genre-subverting arcade of experimental games
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Stairway To Melon: Video Works by Viktor Timofeev May 27, 2025, 7pm e-flux Screening Room 172 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205 USA press release Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, May 27 at 7pm for Stairway To Melon, a screening of works by Viktor Timofeev, followed by a
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untitled (archive) 16mm, color, 3’, 2024, United Kingdom created by Douglas Dixon-Barker vral.org untitled (archive) is a machinima sui generis that transposes the residual memory of a videogame into the granular materiality of 16mm film. Framed as “an imperfect archive”, the work embraces degradation not as failure but as
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Many Ghosts, Many Shells David Blandy and Petra Szemán; John Powell-Jones; Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Curated by Rebecca Edwards Seventeen 1st – 31st May 2025 PV 1st May 6pm 270-276 Kingsland RoadLondonE8 4DG t. +44(0) 207 249 7789 press release Many Ghosts, Many Shells debuts new collaborative work by Petra Szemán and
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Gameplay. Playing for Impact curated by Agnė Kuprytė, Laura Schmidtù MO Museum Pylimo str. 17, Vilnius, LT-01141 press release The fact that digital games have developed into a leading medium is nothing new. The social and aesthetic significance of this interactive and multimedia form can no longer be overlooked. Over
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SATELLITES PRADA AOYAMA 18 April - 25 August 2025 5-2-6 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan Monday to Sunday: 11am - 8pm “Satellites” is an exhibition conceived by Danish movie director Nicolas Winding Refn with Japanese game creator Hideo Kojima, presented at Prada Aoyama Tokyo from 18 April to 25 August
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Call for short films – KO(O)RTS 2025 Deadline: 1 May 2025 | Festival: 26–27 September 2025 | Enschede, NL Sickhouse invites filmmakers, artists, and experimental creators to submit their work for the 2025 edition of KO(O)RTS, our short film festival celebrating bold, poetic, and unconventional storytelling. Whether you’
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Amir Yatziv’s Peter is Back 16/4/2025 and 17/4/2025, both at 8 pm Liquid Studio, Wassertorstraße 62 (4th floor) 10969 Berlin Germany Peter Is Back: A Machine-Performance is a one-hour piece places me in dialogue with an artificially intelligent avatar, inspired by Franz Kafka’s 1917