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.
GAME ART
The most powerful in-game photography tool ever? That's Eric Adams' main argument in his long video essay: Thanks to its fast "slew mode" and clever drone functionality, it allows users to move through the earth precisely, and to set up scenes with their preferred
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Neïl Beloufa's Screen Talk is set in a world affected by a respiratory pandemic (sounds familiar?). The project was originally conceived in 2014 as Home Is Whenever I'm With You. Since then, Beloufa ha shared several iterations. The latest was created during lockdown and rebranded as
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The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University is pleased to announce Shall Make, Shall Be, an exhibition of playable works centered on the individual amendments in the US Bill of Rights. Ten artists and game makers will receive $5,000 commissions to create playable works addressing
GAME ART
Petra Széman, Monomyth: gaiden/ Master of Two Worlds, 2020, digital video, color, sound 10' 40" Petra Széman's monumental Monomyth: gaiden series has reached its destination. With the latest and last installment Monomyth: gaiden/ Master of Two Worlds, Széman's the meta-referential, self-reflexive series
3D ANIMATION
THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW Digital video, color, sound, 7’ 01”, 2020 July 17 - July 30 2020 Introduced by Luca Miranda Things are different now (2020) is both a variation of The Soft Crash (2020 – ongoing) and a complementary, consequential conversation with Brenton Alexander Smith’s other works I Feel Like
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PLAY SOCIETIES: WOLVES, LYNX AND ANT (JUNE 16–SEPTEMBER 9, 2020, HYUNDAI MOTORSTUDIO BEIJING, BEIJING, CHINA ) Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, E-1, 798 Road 798 Art Zone, Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District 100015 Beijing, China Hours: Monday–Sunday 10am–7:30pm motorstudio.hyundai.com.cn T +86 10 5394
CONTRIBUTION
Press release: Opening of the real virtual DIGAREC In-Game Photo Gallery (Online Event) Photo: Sebastian Moring, 2016 (physical gallery, via Twitter) July 16, 2020, 6 pm CET in Mozilla Hubs (best access via Firefox / Chrome, no login required) and on Twitch We have the pleasure of inviting you to
3D ANIMATION
Kim Heecheon, Sleigh Ride Chill, single channel video, 17' 27", 2016 In the 2016 single channel video Sleigh Ride Chill, Kim Heecheon combines three different aesthetics and themes a live-streaming session of a video game play, an online suicide club and a cautionary tale of a leaked
MACHINIMA
Inspired by Operation JaneWalk by Leonhard Müllner and Robin Klengel (a tour of New York through its representation in the videogame The Division 2), Vin Diesel’s Alternative Guide To Barcelona is a video essay providing an accurate account of the history and culture of the Spanish city through the
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If you have not had the chance to check out GAME PLAY VIDEO GAME CULTURE, you have until August 30. This excellent exhibition organized by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain (an extended adaptation of Gameplay. The Next Level, designed by and first presented at the ZKM Center
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Petri Levälahti aka @Berduu is making super short photo mode tutorials for The Last of Us Part II on Twitter. Check'em out! Petri Levalhati currently works at EA DICE as a Screenshot Capture Artist. You may remember his brilliant machinima that we covered a few years ago. LINK:
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The compare-and-contrast reality vs simulacra trope is one of the most popular in game photography and The Last of Us Part II does not disappoint. Robert Robinson is remapping Seattle by juxtaposing photographs from the real thing and the game. The result looks, oddly, like an episode of