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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GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners active in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this artworld. Our goal is to document and discuss both the origins and evolution of a phenomenon that
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Jonathan Vinel, Martin Pleure, 2017, previewJonathan Vinel's latest film, Martin Pleure (Martin cries) was created with Grand Theft Auto V and debuted at the 2017 edition of the Berlin Film Festival. Film screening in Berlin, February 2017 The film, which centers on loss, longing, grief, and the meaning
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Kent Sheely's new machinima is a critical examination of the increasing militarization of US police forces. Bodycam was created with SWAT 4. Expect massive doses of police brutality and procedural incompetence: Hit the grandma with the taser! Arrest the prisoners! And more... Recommended/contextual viewing: Craig Atkinson'
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Robert Wetzer's Lost Worlds is an ongoing photographic exploration of "natural" video game landscapes such as "lush rainforests, icy mountain ranges, rushing waterfalls and barren deserts." As the artist notes on his website, what "used to be cardboard backdrops" have now become
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Borders is a political art game created not only to exhibit video games as an art form but to portray the dangers Mexican immigrants face in order to give the next generation a better future. Players attempt to cross the border while avoiding La Migra (border patrol) and staying hydrated.
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Data viz porn: GameSpace is a playable visualization of 16,000 videogames grouped on the basis of common features and displayed in 3-dimensional space like a vast galaxy of games available for exploration. I ts based on an analysis of all the articles about specific games found on Wikipedia. A
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Cura ted by Isabelle Arvers and Chloé Desmoineaux-comme Des-moineaux, ART GAMES DEMOS is a B4 (before party) entirely dedicated to video art, video games and prototypes as well as performances. It will take place each month in bars, art spaces, book shops, alternative spaces around France. ART GAMES DEMOS is
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Jeffrey Moser is a video artist that works with the cinematic image. His videos are inspired by the analog to digital transfer from physical film to virtual representation. His long term project , cinematicfixations.com, is a visual database of film. The goal is to create a complete visual record of
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Artist and game designer Ramsey Nasser appropriated id Software’s open-source Wolfenstein (1992) assets to produce Dialogue 3-D, which subverts the original violent approach, turning each interaction into a text conversation. An encounter with a Nazi soldier prompts the player to re-evaluate her approach and examine possible ethical consequences. Players
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In 1978, experimental director Craig Baldwin (b. 1952 in Oakland, California) made a 16mm film deconstructing the ideology of cowboy masculinity, cultural imperialism, and capitalism. Finally available on YouTube, his 20-minute video collage includes images and sounds culled from various sources, including commercial, TV series and news, films, cartoons, and
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Verstärker means amplifier in German. This interactive sculpture design by Olaf Val consist of a PSOne controller, a light bulb, a microcontroller and a pedestal. As Val explains: In the works "Rückkoppler", "Automatic Loop Unit", and "Bubbles", I focused on the development of instruments,
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Matthew Keff is an artist based in New York who graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2007. His practice consists in experimenting with game engine software to create visuals a nd interactives. T he result is a bubble gum explosion that can be unseen. Think FPS paintings. Phenomenal