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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MONOMYTH: GAIDEN/RETURN Created by Petra Széman June 19 - July 2 2020 VRAL Introduced by Gemma Fantacci Monomyth: gaiden / Return (2019) is the third installment in the ongoing Monomyth: gaiden series (2018-). Structured around the trope of the hero’s journey, it investigates how real life might be experienced
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Ian Williams uses a traditional medium, painting, to redefine and rethink the aesthetics of gaming. His work is the outcome of a complex process involving three-dimensional computer modelling and paint, screens and canvases. His process is simultaneously simple and complex: the artist extract elements from a video game and removes
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TV is generally crap. One notable exception is Franco-German killer kombo Arte.tv. After devoting an entire episode of The Art of Gaming to in-game photography, Tracks profiled two of the most groundbreaking artists working with/against video games: Austrian artist Leonhard Muellner (the outspoken member of Total Refusal collective)
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For the past 3 and a half years, Carlos Martorell has been scanning vegetation and terrain models around the world, from botanic gardens to backyards, beaches, natural spaces to create a special kind of collage with Unity 3D, possibly the most popular tool for game development. The outcome is Ecosystems,
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The MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL may be over, but machinima keeps growing and evolving pretty much everywhere. Curated by Andrew Michael Davis, La Filmoteca Española introduced a new program titled La imagen renacida, which "explora los profundos cambios en la cultura audiovisual del siglo XXI y el papel del cine
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REGRESSION (TRILOGY) June 5 - 18 2020 Created by Jordy Veenstra VRAL Introduce by Matteo Bittanti Several cinematic productions of the 1920s and 1930s became known as city symphonies. Some, like The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) by Dziga Vertov or Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927) by
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Possibly the best renactment of the year. Akihiko Taniguchi is a Japanese New Media artist who also teaches at Tama Art University and Musashino Art University. He creates diverse works consisting mostly of installations, performances and video works using self-built devices and software. Recently he started making internet art and
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Jon Rafman, Remember Carthage, 2013 The MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL may be over, but machinima keeps growing and evolving pretty much everywhere. Curated by Andrew Michael Davis, La Filmoteca Española introduced a new program titled La imagen renacida, which "explora los profundos cambios en la cultura audiovisual del siglo XXI
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COLL.EO, REASONABLE_3, machinima, digital, color, sound, 2020, 38" ...And just like that, the third installment of COLL.EO's ongoing series, REASONABLE, materializes online. LINK: COLL.EO
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The 2020 MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL is now live! Between May 25-30 2020, the work of 25 different artists from 13 nations will be available online in 6 different programs. Most of these works have never been presented in Italy before. The third edition of the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL was originally
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IN BETWEEN IDENTITIES digital video, color, sound, 8’ 50”, 2015 Created by Aleksandar Radan May 8 - May 21 2020 In an ersatz Los Angeles permeated by a pervasive sense of dread, mysterious figures confront their own meaninglessness. Scantily dressed, completely naked or donning fur coats, men and women seem
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Eddie Lohmeyer, Scrolling Landscape in 34 NES Games #3, digital video/machinima, color, 4' 04", 2020 Eddie Lohmeyer's archeological approach to gaming and machinima is exemplified by his third installment on the congoing Scrolling Landscape series. A the artist writes: Scrolling Landscapes (2020) is a three-channel