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 lapse in time set in Los Santos by São Paulo-based artist and DJ Màrcio Vermelho, aka VIDEO-SISTEMA. His work has been presented at several events and exhibitions in Brazil and elsewhere, including the multimedia festival LAÇO. LINK: Màrcio Vermelho
LECTURE
A terrific short lecture by Marilyn Roxie, given at the 10th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. Roxie is an experimental digital media artist working with video collage, photography, webcams, Second Life and more. She is also a recent graduate of San Francisco State University with a
ART GAME
Mexican artist Oscar Nodal (who was featured, among others in the 2016 GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY exhibition in Milan) is having his first show at the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. Titled Simulación Y Rutina, the show explores the relationship between games and reality, simulation and
GAME ART
From top to bottom:María Isabel Vargas, Floating Islands, acrylic on canvas.María Isabel Vargas, Clouds and flowers, acrylic on canvas.María Isabel Vargas, Mountains and trees, acrylic on canvas. For more than seven years, Colombian artist María Isabel Vargas painted video game landscapes, mostly taken from Nintendo's
GAME ART
Roy Ananda, Thin Walls Between Dimension, installation, 2018 Photograph: Saul SteedRoy Ananda’s massive sculptural tribute to Dungeons and Dragons represents the chasm between an imagined world and a real one. The work premiered at the Adelaide Biennial of Australian art. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Ananda is a graduate
EVENT
CLICK HERE TO REGISTERMILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL March 16th 2018 From 6.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. IULM Open Space (IULM 6) Via Carlo Bo 7 20143, Milano Free and open to the public, upon registrationmilanmachinimafestival.orgThe aesthetics and politics of video game cinema: IULM University hosts the
CONCEPTUAL
On The Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time was created by Shane Flores, a student enrolled in the New Mexico Highlands University Media Arts and Technology Program. It is a machinima “reboot” of Guy Debord’s seminal 1959 Situationist film of the same name
MACHINIMA
I'm speechless. LINK : Hugh Hancock
ART GAME
Krista Wortendyke (re):media, 2008Gun Ballet: the Aestheticization of Violence in Video Games March 2 - June 3, 2018 VGA Gallery 2418 W Bloomingdale #102 Chicago, IL 60647 Opening Reception: Friday March 2, 2018, 5-8pm Chicago's Video Game Art Gallery presents Gun Ballet, an exhibition that identifies the
ART GAME
GAME TALKS 2018 IULM University Via Carlo Bo, 2 20143 Milan, Italy LINK Presented by the Master of Arts in Game Design at IULM University, GAME TALKS are six lectures, presentations, and performances on the art of game design that will take place on Wednesdays at 6 pm between April
INSTALLATION
File under: slow (slower) machinima. Pedestrian, but non in that sense. A documentation of a walk inside a videogame that can be experienced with a virtual reality handset adorned with grass fibres and scenic lichen: an oxymoron that makes perfect sense. Peripatetic action in installation form. Bob Bicknell-Knight, Mountain Walk,
DEVICE ART
An Interaction Designer working in Product Innovation, Roger Ibars specializes in Natural User Interfaces, from the social and technical explorations to defining the syntactics and semantics on early prototyping. With the aim to explore game controllers and gesture interaction, in 2002 he began building "hard-wired devices" to create