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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This project does not qualify as Game Art, no matter how elusive the definition is. Nonetheless, it is one of those performative fringe activity that take place within a video game that evoke many of the attributes of the artistic gesture. There's video, there's photography, there&
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Click the above image to read a great article by Dia Lacina on in-game photography. Lacina mentions, among others, Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama to suggest that a camera is a tool, but a naturalized way of seeing. A very insightful commentary on a fringe practice in gaming that has now
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Matter is a first-person platformer set in a mystic and expressive world by Concrete Games, a small indie studio located in Brittany, France. As the Thomas Rougeron, Corentin Derbré, and Mathieu Labelle explain We wanted to make this game in a short production process - three months from prototyping to
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Stefano Gualeni's new game is an interactive exploration of the notion of indexicality, the idea that the meaning of a certain sign can depend upon the context in which it occurs. The game challenges its players to engage with- (and be puzzled by-) the philosophical notion of indexicality.
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In this short video essay, Polygon's contributor Clayton Ashley describes the relationship between the Hudson River School style of landscape painting and the vistas of Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2. It's more about ideology than aesthetics: art is not neutral. He discusses light and
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New from COLL.EO: the second machinima in the ongoing series, REASONABLE developed with Grand Theft Auto V. The duration is four hours and thirty minutes. Artist statement below: COLL.EO is a collaboration between Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti established in 2012. COLL.EO currently operates in San Francisco
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IN A GAMESCAPE. LANDSCAPE, REALITY, STORYTELLING AND IDENTITY IN VIDEO GAMES An exhibition co-curated by DOI Nobuaki and TANIGUCHI Akihiko December 15, 2018–March 10, 2019, 11:00am–6:00pm NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A Tokyo, Japan OFFICIAL WEBSITE Among other works, video games as a form of contemporary
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Parallel Worlds 2019 – A Conference on Videogame Design and Culture Friday 25 January 2015, 10:30 -17:30 Victoria and Albert Museum, London Tickets £35 full price, £30 concessions, £15 student Parallel Worlds, the V&A’s conference dedicated to videogame design and culture, will be back for more
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Alex Sewell, Control Panel, 2018, Oil on linen over wood, 3.5” x 6”Alex Sewell (b. 1989) is an artist and painter from Lynn, MA living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He is represented by TOTAH located at 183 Stanton St. in New York City's Lower East
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Theodore Darst & Collin Leitch, All Manner Of Things Shall Be Well, 2018, 2-Channel HD Video, 9.45 minutes, Dimensions Variable All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Theodore Darst and Collin Leitch is a vertical video framed across two HD televisions about religion's aesthetics and ideology.
3D ANIMATION
Not your typical short. Glucose is a surreal journey through the dream of video game character who has been K.O. during a match, featuring low-poly and glitch-art aesthetics. It was awarded the top prize at the 2018 Sundance film festival in the Animation category by a jury comprised of
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Kara Gut's Wayshrines is a video essay about exploration, navigation, and getting lost in virtual worlds, constructed as a video essay/manifesto via split-screens and multiple windows. A fascinating assemblage of appropriated media, screen recordings, and performance in digital environments about the function (and dysfunction) of bodies that