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.
ARCADE
Oliver Payne, 2017. Photo: Curtis BuchananCONTINUE? The Philosophy of Japanese Arcade Culture Wednesday May 31, 2017 7:30PM Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Free entry and open to the public Parking: Under the museum, $6 flat rate after 6 p.m. Cash only. "Having recently collaborated with Japanese Pop art
CONCEPTUAL
HYPE Solo show by/Mostra personale di Marco Mendeni May 29 - June 17 2017 Curated by/a cura di Matteo Bittanti Project economART Preview Day: May 29, 2017 6:30 pm The gallery is open from Monday to Friday between 10-13; 16-19 Saturday and Sunday by appointment only AMY
3D ANIMATION
The new project by Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Primal Tourism (2016), is an impressive multimedia tour-de-forc e featuring a virtual reality art work, a series of prints, and a complete walk through. The recently created Island (2017) is an installation based on Primal Tourism, a virtual reality art project,
EVENT
Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, Finding Fanon 2, 2016, UHD Digital Video screenshot The Finding Fanon TrilogyWednesday 24th May 20177-9pm, Tate Modern, London The Finding Fanon trilogy (2015–17) by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy blends personal histories, pop culture and post-colonial theory to examine how we navigate the digital
DANCE
A phenomenal dance choreography inspired by videogames and digital technology, Within Time's Grip is divided into four acts. My favorite is ""World III: Game-on", featuring Jennifer Petuch in collaboration with Bridget Close, Scott Lindenberg, Andre Lumpkin, Ryan McMullen, and Samantha Scioneaux. The soundtrack includes "
3D ANIMATION
Ragtime is a 2015 computer simulation by British electronic arts duo Gibson and Martelli. Created through the process of procedural animation (commonly known as ragdoll), the video shows the contortions of a dying figure. The artists created an endlessly collapsing ragdoll character. Gibson/Martelli, Ragtime, 2015, physics simulationLINK : Gibson/Martelli
GAME ART
Australian artist Chris Howlett's new project is an ambitious machinima tetralogy titled Tutorialized I-IV. The first video piece, Tutorialized I: Guns & Ammo, has been released online in preview form. Howlett describe the project in these terms: These video works examine the complicit nature of online pedagogy and
GAME ART
A fascinating machinima by Bob Bicknell-Knight depicting a textual conversation between the artist and a bot within the architectural spaces, post-natural landscapes, and urban vistas of the Mass Effect video game series. The result - an interior monologue that doubles as an exercise in futuristic interior design - is captivating
VIDEO
A recursive interactive artwork from Japanese artist Akihiko Taniguchi: the main screen displays Super Mario Bros. playable with the NES controller, but when the player "jumps" by pressing a button on the joypad, the screen shows a previous jump, enacted by the artist. This creates a powerful ludic
ART GAME
From Benjamin Poynter comes a video game inspired by the theories of Canadian media guru Marshall McLuhan . As Poynter writes: Fusing the serious genre, hi-tech surrealism, and fundamental game design, this new game title tells a story of paranoia. The player will come to feel what it means to be
DOCUMENTARY
"Professional gamers Melek Balgün and Trinity invite artists, scientists and enthusiastic gamers in each episode of ART OF GAMING to play and discuss computer games. Which emotions do computer games provoke? What is special about games compared to other art forms? What do we feel when we play?
GAME ART
Sylvain Entressangle, Video Gaming Landscape, 2013. French photographer and musician Sylvain Entressangle (b. 1970) works with analog, digital, and virtual cameras. Among other things, he produced an extensive body of work shooting urban environments in video games such as Mafia 2 and then manipulating the screenshots with a black and