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.
CALL FOR ARTWORKS
Open Call: The Fields of Algorithms by David Blandy For poetic machinima lasting exactly one minute. Send in your One Minute video! Deadline 1 September 2020 theoneminutes.org/participate David Blandy is an artist working with pop-cultural spaces such as video games, tabletop RPGs and Twitch streams. He lives in
BOOK
Well Played Journal Special Issue Cfp: Playable Theatre Edited by Celia Pearce & Nick Fortugno The rising popularity of immersive theatre works such as Third Rail’s Then She Fell and Punch Drunk’s Sleep No More, has given rise to new hybrid forms of live entertainment that combine aspects
ANIMATION
The 2020 edition of the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL will be followed by the release of a printed bilingual (English and Italian) publication later this year featuring critical contributions on the state of machinima. The book/catalog will be edited by Matteo Bittanti and Gemma Fantacci. Contributors do not necessarily need
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We are delighted to announce the full program of the 2020 MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL. The event takes place between March 09-13 2020 at IULM University in two separate locations: the Contemporary Exhibition Hall and the Sala dei 146, both located in the IULM Open Space building. Both venues are open
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When it comes to bold, daring, unique, and unclassifiable game-based experiences, there's simply nothing comparable to the visionary, WTF stuff that the students of Eddo Stern's UCLA GameLab create. Point in case: check out the trailer for Elsie Wang's Game Lab Fellow Intimacy. LINK
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A collaborative project between artists Carson Lynn and Grace Grothau, Parched Earth examines the ecological tensions embedded in contemporary video games. As Carson writes: Both artists have dealt with global warming in their respective practices, so they sought out to create a speculative fiction film depicting a dystopian future where
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Jenny Jiao Hsia, Consume Me, 2018System Link: Video Game as Memoir Curated by Brice Puls January 24 - April 25, 2020 Opening Reception Friday, January 24 2020, 6-9pm VGA Gallery 2418 W Bloomingdale #101 Chicago, IL 60647 Video games have historically been a product catered to the player. A focus
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Now Play This 2020 – Open Call Now Play This is returning to Somerset House in London from April 3rd – 5th as part of London Games Festival. Ahead of this year’s festival we’re once again opening up a call for playful makers and creators to tell us about their
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Jon Rafman, Open Heart Warrior, Three-channel HD video, sculptural installation, 13:30, 2016 In Rafman's Open Heart Warrior, virtual landscapes evoking the iconography of fantasy play on three screens, while unsettling and disturbing images from violent computer games enter and exit the frame, often in the viewer’s
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As if we needed proof further proof that Akihiko Taniguchi is a staggering genius... In his latest project, the ultra realistic racing game Art Speed, artworks on wheels - Gabriel Orozco's La DS (1993), Umberto Boccioni's Forme uniche nella continuità dello spazio (1913), and R.T.
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Juan Obando, Pro Revolution Soccer, 2019Game Changers: Video Games & Contemporary Art February 22 to April 19 2020 Free entryMassArt Museum (MAAM) Sandra & David Bakalar Gallery Free and open to the public621 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 United States Curated by Darci Hanna, this group exhibition explores artists working
FILM
The theme of the 2020 MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL is The Weird, the Eerie, and the Unreal. Inspired by Mark Fisher’s last book, The Weird and the Eerie (2017), the theme tries to capture the essence of machinima, like the previous two, Aesthetics of game-based cinema (2018) and Uncanny (2019)