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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The Garden of Earthly Delights is an online chatroom for the creatures living within the world of Age of Empires II created by SCRNPRNT, that is Neilson Koerner-Safrata (Virtual Virtual Reality, Dustnet, Irrational Exuberance among others) and his twin brother Milan (Heart, Puzzlegami, Alien Garden among others). Gloriously absurd,
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FORWARD, UPWARD, IN ALL DIRECTIONS digital video (1980 x 1080), color, sound, 19’ 16”, 2018 (Ukraine) Created by fantastic little splash Introduced by Matteo Bittanti VRAL Both poetic and prosaic, Forward, upward, in all directions is a psychedelic trip inside VRChat, a free-to-play massively multiplayer online virtual reality
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London Film Festival Expanded October 7–18 A new strand of XR and immersive art and virtual exhibition space Official link Press release: LFF Expanded is BFI London Film Festival’s new dedicated strand of XR and immersive Art. Using cinema as a jumping off point, LFF Expanded features virtual
GAME ART
Weaponizing Courtship is a virtual performance-for-video created by Angela Washko for Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich, Switzerland), 2020 as part of SITUATIONS / STRIKE, curated by Marco De Mutiis. As Washko explains, Weaponizing Courtship traces a brief history of how military vision and technology have been incorporated into computer games and
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SaveMe Oh does Diana Ross in this diabolic video about covidiocy. 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
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Edwin Lo Crucifixion and Epiphany October 2 - October 15 VRAL Introduced by Luca Miranda vral.org A follow up to Those Who Do Not Remember The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It (2020) and The Rupture of Promised Land (Or We Can Never Get There) (2020), Crucifixion and Epiphany is
ANIMAL CROSSING NEW HORIZONS
the wulf. is an experimental collective featuring Lil' Jürg Frey, Liam Mooney (a.k.a. lmoo, 266437144916648607844), a composer, performer, and instrument maker based in Los Angeles and Isaac Schanklerand. Among other things, they make experimental music with video games. In their latest performance, they reimagined and reorchestrated the
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A Lament for Power: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy Tuesday 6 October 2020 2-7pm Art Exchange Art Exchange University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ United Kingdom The exhibition is open from Tuesday 6 October - Sat 14 November A Lament for Power is the outcome of a nine-
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ANIMAL CROSSING: ALL MINE digital video, color, sound, 7’ 05”, 2020 (United States) Created by Brent Watanabe VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Conspicuous consumption is the implicit goal of innumerable video games, but Animal Crossing: New Horizons is, by far, the most shameless celebration of capitalism. Released in March 2020,
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Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra has recently released Pixelation, an experimental machinima consisting of three Quake III fragmovies originally made in late 2010. As Veenstra explains, "All movies were created at the time to familiarize myself with the Q3MME mod and cinematic camera paths and not so much
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NVIDIA is introducing a new app called Omniverse Machinima which "enables gamers across the world to easily master the art of storytelling by using 3D objects, animated by NVIDIA AI technologies." Specifically, Through NVIDIA Omniverse, creators can import assets from supported games or most 3rd party asset libraries
GAME ART
Landscape photographer Pete Rowbottom creates real-life photos inspired by Death Stranding''s incredible in-game photo mode. LINK : Pete Rowbottom (Thank you Kieran!)