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.
GLITCH
A new machinima work by Eddie Lohmeyer: Maps is an experimental machinima film that uses composited gamespaces to generate seductive forms of abstraction. Created through appropriated game footage of map walkthroughs, the film produces colorful swirling and gyrating game fragments by blending the dynamic motion of avatars as they traverse
ARCADE
GAMEPLAY. Video Game Culture 19 December 2019 - 3 May 2020 Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona Inauguration 18 December 2019 - 19.007.00 pm Audiovisual performance by Alba G. Corral & TutuDates and hours 19 December 2019 - 3 May 2020 From Tuesday to Sunday, 11.00 - 20.00 Curated by
GAME ART
Vertige is a relatively rare example of a machinima created by combining gameplay footage from different games - Downward (Caracal Games, 2017), No70: Eye of Basir (Oldmoustache Gameworks, 2017), Rememoried (Vladimir Kudelka, 2015), Stairs (GreyLight Entertainment, 2015), Superhot (SUPERHOT Team, 2016), The Beginner's Guide (Davey Wreden, 2015), The Tape
3D ANIMATION
An in-depth look at Kristoffer Zetterstrand's practice. The Swedish painter has been exploring the boundaries between art and paintings for more than a decade. As he explains on his website, For some years I have experimented with virtual still lifes, often in the form of stage design
GAME ART
Karl Munstedt's Grand Theft Homo is an ongoing project comprising mods, hacks, and queer-ings of Grand Theft Auto V intended to subvert and obscure the hetero-masculine tropes embedded within the algorithms of the game. New mods are added to an online repository, which will augment the
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A few months ago, Duncan Robson released a two hour cut of his monumental project Hours Played, a video game... remake... homage... remediation... (?) of Christian Marclay's The Clock (2010). Robson's project qualifies as truly maddening and insane, thus genius. It's the mother of all
ARCADE
Steven Paul Judd, Invaders, 2018Indigenous Futurisms: Explorations in Art and Play Gorman Museum at University of California, Davis Oct 2, 2019 - Jan 31, 2020 One Shields Ave., Davis, California Open Mon-Fri, noon-5 p.m., and Sun 2-5 p.m. Admission is free. Website: gormanmuseum.ucdavis.edu. Indigenous
GAME ART
Jacky Connolly, Ariadne, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 50m13s.Last Summer, one of the most prominent video artists working with the video game aesthetics, Jacky Connolly, released her new monumental work, Ariadne. Like her previous projects, Ariadne was shot with/in The Sims. It was exhibited at Down and Ross
COLLABORATION
Total Refusal, How to Disappear, machinima, 2020, 20:06 A game video essay on the nature of war - both "real", that is, unmediated, and its remediation through ludic means - How to Disappear. Deserting Battlefield is a profound, moving, and enlightening meditation on topics ranging from the weaponization of
ANALOG
Seamus Gallagher, falling in love with whatever loves me first, pigment print, 44” x 66”, 2017 I'm in love with Séamus Gallagher's a space and place all for us, a triptych featuring images created digitally using 3D modeling programs like Blender, as well as Unity, a
DOCUMENTARY
Jona Kleinlein, Hidden Conflicts, machinima, 23' 05", 2019 Jona Kleinlein is a multi-media artist working with film, video and installation living and working in Norway. He is interested in exploring the increasingly porous boundaries between filmmaking, video games, and simulation. Hidden Conflicts is Jona's new
FILM
Andy Hughes' monumental Plastic Scoop examines the relationship between virtual environments and ecological issues though the filter of GTA V. Created using the Rockstar Editor, Plastic Coop mixes images from the videogame with found footage and archival moving image. The video opens with the soothing atmospheres of an ocean