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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Written, directed and edited by Matt MacDonald, Not Normal is one of the most sophisticated and polished GTA V machinima of the year. A story of obsession and alienation with a twist, Not Normal is a (relatively) large machinima production featuring an original soundtrack by Simon Stevens and sound design
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Yuliya Kozhemyako and Margarita Skomorokh are currently working on Overseas Digital, collection of short art games. "Each game is a completely independent world with its own rules and its own kind of weirdness. Nevertheless, all worlds are joined together by a common interface — a mysterious place resembling a spaceship.
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Yuliya Kozhemyako (Supr) is organizing an Unreal Engine 4 Game Jam. These are the rules; * create a game using Unreal Engine 4 for any platforms Windows and web is preferable; * use only engine content and engine tools; * can’t use other programs like 3d editors, audio editors, anyThingElsE editors or
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I know, instagrammification is a terrible neologism, but bear with me for a sec. At CES 2018, nVidia introduced a feature called NVIDIA Freestyle for its GeForce Experience that basically adds instagram-like functionality to gaming practices, with obvious implications for both game photography and machinima. Specifically, right from the in-game
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Angela Washko Plays The Game: The Game Wednesday, January 10th 2018 at 7pm Museum of the Moving Image, New YorkVideo Screening Amphitheater Event WebsiteExhibition WebsiteFacebook Event Museum of the Moving Image will present the world premiere of Angela Washko’s The Game: The Game, a dating simulator that pits players
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Jakob Kudsk Steensen's AQUAPHOBIA is a stunning achievement, both on technical and conceptual levels. Created with Unreal Engine, AQUAPHOBIA is an immersive experience which allows the viewer to navigate through five different environments or "levels" seamlessly connected. These spaces form an ecosystem and include simple to
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Nicholas O'Brien's latest project is a narrative-driven, first person, essay game with a score by Seth Cluett. The game's main theme is the sudden closure of a public transportation system in a fictional Rustbelt American city. Available for Windows PC, Mac OS X, The
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I rarely feature vernacular machinima on this site. Not because I don't find it interesting, but because fandom operates on a completely different register than video art/contemporary art. Nonetheless, tomayto_tomato's appropriation of the ultra-violent game Arma 3 to create a contemplative, ruminative visual experience
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Claire Hentschke, Driver On The Highway, digital image, 2017 Claire Hentschke, Avatar Above The Sea, digital image, 2017 Hentschker captures the sublime using photographic practices in gaming, and specifically in Grand Theft Auto V. At the same time, she is remediating the medium of painting: In this series of works,
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Is there anything that Paolo Pedercini can't do? His first Let's Play video is a brilliant work of investigative journalism, Game art criticism, and sincere homage to John O'Neill, "one of the first artists working with computer games". As Pedercini writes: "
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VGA Reader Call for Papers—Issue 2: SURVIVAL STRATEGY "IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS." - Old Man, The Legend of Zelda In an era of ecological, social, and political crisis, when contemporary media inundates us daily with apocalyptic scenarios, video games can act as a
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Kerich's DKS is one of my favorite projects of the year. It's a cross between Arman and Ant Farm, in a digital space. Phenomenal: "This project, inspired by the YouTube series Car Boys, involved the creation and destruction of kinetic sculptures in the driving game