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.
COLLABORATION
Alan Kwan and Allison Yang Jing recently completed the experimental game Forgetter in collaboration with DSL COLLECTION. In the game the player works for a tech company that cleans all the trauma or dark memories in dead artist brains, and then recycles and sells these artistic brains to parents who
ANIMATION
Dyson & Womack, public art curators, are working with the State of California to select artists and artworks to be included in the Digital Art Call for Entries for the Public Art CA collection. Public Art CA is a contemporary art collection commissioned for the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA)
ART GAME
Michael Samyn, Compassie, 2021 (screenshot) Artist, designer, and professor Michaël Samyn has just released Compassie, an artistic software program for tethered VR. Compassie is a virtual reality diorama with the theme of pietà. The player takes the place of the holy virgin holding the lifeless body of Christ. And she
3D ANIMATION
In this short machinima, Ewan Wilson examines the notion of asphyxia via Tomb Raider (1996). This work was originally featured in the second issue of video art magazine Emerge, As Wilson writes: Two of the most common symptoms of anxiety and stress are shortness of breath and feelings of suffocation.
3D ANIMATION
Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra continue his bold investigation/reinvention of Quake III Arena (id Software, 1999) with another machinima (1920 x 816) that redefines the very boundaries of the medium. With IGNIIITION, Veenstra portraits a 1-vs-1 'Tournament' style duel within Quake III Arena, representing
3D ANIMATION
DEAR EIDOLON digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 5’ 58”, 2020 (United States of America) Written, filmed, narrated, and scored by Carson Lynn April 2 - April 15 2021 VRAL Introduced by Luca Miranda In a place where players and avatars coexist in apparent harmony, noticing the constraints and constrictions
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