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 Walk with Alan Butler on 22nd April 2020 at 6 pm UK time / 7 pm CET (on Zoom) Free event. Join artist Alan Butler in a live-streamed online expedition Alan Butler will lead a tour of the game environment of Grand Theft Auto V, focusing on topics of
ART GAME
As always, Paolo Pedercini is ahead of the curve. oMOMA is a playful lo-fi multiplayer online gallery of art installations. Unmissable. LINK : oMOMA (screenshots by Paolo Pedercini)
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The team behind the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL is launching VRAL, a uniquely curated game video experience, available for free on the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL website offering screenings of machinima created by artists and filmmakers whose work lies at the intersection of video art, cinema, gaming, and other visual practices. The
ART GAME
Utopias: Navigating Without Coordinates is a videogame network comprising nine different worlds, each one developed by a member of Berlin-based AAA collective.As they explain on their website, Each world in Utopias is a site of crystallization where our ideas and how we work as a group have gathered
ART GAME
Inspired by James Turrell's work, A Constant Move Forward is a playful experience designed by the French collective One Life Remains that goes from boredom to frantic interactivity and back. The collective, funded more than a decade ago by Roy Brice, is inspired by hardcore gaming as well
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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 Margins of
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,
ART GAME
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,