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.
ART GAME
Polina Lobanova and Josef Seidl are a Berlin-based artist duo whose work challenges the standardized, boring, flat aesthetic of modern computing by exploring the tactile and intimate dimensions of digital devices. Their practice moves beyond the conventional interfaces of contemporary technology, instead creating artifacts that evoke personal engagement, ambiguity, and
COLLABORATION
Lea Van Hall, There are some things about places you just don’t realise until you leave them, 2024 ceramic, video game; sound: Éléa Brando, typography:Tigran Saakyan, installation view; photo: HFBKLea Van Hall, There are some things about places you just don’t realise until you leave them, 2024
3D ANIMATION
Leyuan Li, Half Day Tour, video installation, 2024, installation view, photo: HFBK Hamburg Leyuan Li, Half Day Tour, video installation, 2024, screenshot, photo: HFBK Hamburg Half Day Tour is a video installation by Leyuan Li, derived from a game he developed and recorded. In this work, the artist assumes the
GAME ART
Rabu Rabu digital video, colour, sound, 18’ 18”, 2024, Hong Kong. created by Hou Lam Tsui vral.org Rabu Rabu (meaning lovey-dovey in Japanese) reimagines and subverts the conventions of Japanese dating simulation games, known for their focus on interactions with attractive young female characters. Instead, it presents a fictional
PAINTING
Tadić’s approach bridges the gap between painting and digital culture, translating the semiotics of video games into oil on canvas. His insistent use of HUDs (heads-up displays) and interface elements does not merely reference gaming nostalgia but interrogates the gamification of contemporary urban life, where financial instability, physical exhaustion,
ACADEMIC COURSE
Video Games: Past, Present, and Future BCNM 20th Anniversary Special Event This special event, part of the Berkeley Center for New Media’s 20th-anniversary celebration, brings together scholars, archivists, and industry professionals to explore the transformative impact of video games. Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies,
EVENT
Lisa Broms and Vanja Ivarsson: Save Points Galleri Redan February 7 - March 15 2025 Amiralsgatan 9, Malmö, Sweden Lisa Broms and Vanja Ivarsson, two Malmö-based artists, operate within a post-internet aesthetic that fuses digital iconography with a tactile, painterly sensibility. Their work is characterized by acidic color palettes, fluid,
3D ANIMATION
Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices curated by Rafael Fajardo January 9 - February 23 2025 Vicki Myhren Gallery 2121 E. Asbury Ave. Denver, CO 80210 press release The Vicki Myhren Gallery is proud to present Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices, curated by DU’s own Rafael Fajardo, Professor of Emergent Digital Practices.
CONCEPTUAL
Awaiting Oblivion digital video, colour, sound, 20’ 23”, 2024, Russia created by Natalie Maximova World premiere vral.org Awaiting Oblivion interrogates the collapse of simulated reality in The Last of Us Part II, uncovering spaces where the boundaries between representation and existence dissolve. As the digital world fractures into glitches
LARP
Reinis Hofmanis, Britta Hoyer as Youa the Manwolf, LARP series, 2011. Courtesy of ArkDes. © Reinis Hofmani s Worldglimpsing Role Play and the Design of Alternate Realities October 3, 2025–August 16, 2026 ArkDes Skeppsholmen Exercisplan Stockholm Sweden Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am-6pm, Tuesday and Friday 10am-8pm press release ArkDes and Nieuwe
3D ANIMATION
𝔃𝓮𝓻𝓸𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 Student Final Work from ART 250: Between Worlds, Video Games and the Physical @ University of Illinois Chicago Friday, January 24, 2025 6:00 PM 9:00 PM VGA Project Lab 2233 South Throop Street #843 Chicago, IL, 60608 United States curated by Jared Kelley-Hudgins, UIC ART 250 Instructor Eleanor Schichtel,
INTERVIEW
Ida B. Wells: A Red Record digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 39’ 34”, 2020, United States of America created by Harrison Wade Reishman Ida B. Wells: A Red Record is a biographical machinima that examines the life and contributions of Ida B. Wells, a trailblazing African American journalist