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
Isla Hansen's latest project is titled Demolition One and it's a virtual pinata game in which players are invited to destroy a pitch black cadillac limo - i.e. the vehicle used by the 45th - by interacting with a plush physical toy version of the car. This
ART GAME
Link Center for the Arts of the Information Age has just released How To Play Eddo Stern, a critical monograph on the avantgarde artist and game designer Eddo Stern written by critic, curator, and writer Domenico Quaranta and co-produced with Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel.The digital version can
3D ANIMATION
Hybrid Layers June 3, 2017–January 7, 2018 Opening: June 2, 7pm ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Lorenzstr. 19 76135 Karlsruhe Germany T +49 721 81000 F +49 721 81001139 info@zkm.de zkm.de Facebook / Instagram / YouTube The group exhibition Hybrid Layers explores the diverse aspects of
AI
"Our AI friend here, Charles, is a convolutional neural network that learns to drive through deep learning. At the moment, Charles learns and takes all actions based on single frames at a time, and bases his decisions on just pixel data. Charles only sees exactly what you see. In
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
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
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
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
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