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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SCREEN WALKSA series of online streams with artists and researchers using the screen as their medium. Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery have invited selected artists to perform guided explorations of specific online and digital spaces in which their core artistic research and practice takes place. Each video stream is
ART GAME
Studio Oleomingus is on fire. Their latest project - The indifferent wonder of edible places - is an iteration of an artwork that was developed for an exhibition at Phoenix gallery in Leicester in 2019 and later displayed at the Videogame Art Gallery in Chicago at the Notes in the
ART GAME
The 2020 edition of NOW PLAY THIS: A festival of experimental game design at Somerset House in London curated by Marie Foulston features all kinds of artworks looking at games that relate to a theme of ‘Breaking Point’. “Games are the aesthetic forms of systems, and we were looking at
3D ANIMATION
Veronika Švecová is an artist based in Prague, Czech Republic. Her practice includes video and installations using ludic tropes and themes, where organic creatures merge with technological entities. DREAMOBOROS is a trailer for a fictional video game set in a post apocalyptic dystopian universe where players fight "with their
GAME ART
Softcrash is part of an ongoing series made using BeamNg.drive, a video game known for its ability to produce realistic car crashes. By pushing the limits of the engine, Smith forces the game to visualize situations that would be impossible in the real world. The software often produces wild,
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Hail the new futurists! Hail Mikhail Maksimov, an artist, director, and designer creating games that operate like "a sanatorium for artists". In his latest work, Moscow Modern Art Massacre (MMAM), players can destroy art and burn down entire museums, like F.T. Marinetti recommended. You have sixty seconds
ART GAME
Eight years ago we shared on GameScenes Alan Kwan's groundbreaking project Bad Trip in which the artist connected a small camera to his glasses in order to develop a videogame about my virtual memories. It remains one of the most inventive project at the crossroads of technology, gaming,
GAME ART
Machinima in quarantined times. SaveMe Oh is just one of the several virtual alter-egos created by Oscar Wagenmans, a Dutch theatre director and actor. An eclectic figure inside and outside the virtual space, Wagenmans began his career as an actor in 1983 performing with youth theatre groups, subsequently as a
GAME ART
Eddie Lohmeyer, Scrolling Landscape in 34 NES Games #2, digital video/machinima, color, 8' 15", 2020 Eddie Lohmeyer's archeological approach to machinima is exemplified by his second installment on the congoing Scrolling Landscape series. A the artist writes: Scrolling Landscape in 34 NES Games #2 (2020)
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Here's an update on ARTSPEED, Akihiko Taniguchi's racing game featuring conceptual artworks competing on the art circuit (no, really). The game is looking increasingly polished and avantgarde. Alas, R.T: Mutt aka Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is not doing great and Umberto Boccioni's
COLLABORATION
Another formidable work by foci+loci, Bouncing Moon is an algorithmic music device built in LittleBigPlanet 3. Truly avantgarde. As the Brooklyn-based duo explains: The user trigger emission of a triangle in any of four rows- percussion, droplets, bass and piano- by pressing buttons on the controller. Each triangle has
GAME ART
An ironic take at deep existential concerns. Forty seconds shot with GTA V's Rockstar Editor. Antonio M. Abate is filmmaker and film critic based in Milan, Italy. LINK: Antonio M. Abate