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.
GAME ART
Jacky Connelly, Hudson Valley Ruins, 2016 (excerpt). Video, color, sound, 30". Hudson Valley Ruins, Connelly's new, ambitious machinima created with The Sims, i s now online at Vdrome . Full description below: Depicting various domestic spheres of a suburban north American context, Hudson Valley Ruins is a machinima
GAME ART
A poetic meditation by Kent Sheely on the virtual pedestrians of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas whose existence is both irrelevant and meaningless, instrumental and expendable. The prolific artist writes about the precarious lives of these characters: "Sometimes they encounter another person & immediately strike up a conversation we&
ART GAME
IP Yuk-Yui reinvents a classic work of existentialism, Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus, a s an experimental video game which invites the player to rethink the meaning of action, free will, and human intentionality. This contemporary, interactive version consists of two related but autonomous versions: S for Sisyphus
GAME ART
More waiting, more absurdity in Kent Sheely's new video, Put it on my tap. Former detective Max Payne awaits drinks in various bars he's just shot up. LINK : Kent Sheely
3D ANIMATION
Jeremy Couillard's new project is a first person video game titled Alien Afterlife. Developed with the Unreal Engine 4, Alien Afterlife is set in a limbo world "invaded by aliens who steal the machine you need to reincarnate". It looks like this: Alien Afterlife will be
CONCEPTUAL
A multi-channel video installation that examines the misogynistic gameplay of Cover Girl Strip Poker, a 1991 MS-DOS computer game, (Hohum)...it's gonna be a looong game deconstructs the crude embodiments of male desire which integrates the objectification of the female body with disfiguring early computerized graphics and interactivity.
ESSAY
This is phenomenal. In the 1989 adult-oriented computer series, Leisure Suit Larry wanders the jungle of a colonized village searching for love, which he finds, after a multitude of failed romantic interactions, with Passionate Patti, a perfect and unattainable woman. In an act of cathexis, Larry's energies concentrate
GAME ART
Kent Sheely's latest project mixes reality and virtual reality: this machinima features a conversation with John Draper aka Captain Crunch, a pi oneer of phone phreaking" which paved the road for modern-day computer hacking. The video was show from inside a payphone in the recently released game
GAME ART
Kasem Kydd is a visual artist born in Queens, New York. This is his first machinima, developed with 2K Sports' popular basketball game series. He attended the Cambridge School of Weston and is now enrolled in the Fine Art Program (BFA) at Carnegie Mellon University. Play The Game Before
machinima
Four quadrants action! CCTV-like aesthetics. A visual meditation on "the repetitive nature of video game mechanics" (BBK). "The work that I’m currently producing looks at a lot of aspects of what life simulation games actually do, putting you in the position of a God-like figure, all
AR
Hado is both an augmented reality game and a virtual reality game developed by Japanese startup Meleap that transforms the mystical, new age concept of hado (a free-form energy, popularized by Masaru Emoto) into a game that evokes Dragonball-like fireball shots and Street Fighter combat. The equipment needed is conspicuous.
ARCHITECTURE
Virtual flaneur Rob H. Dylan aka Robert What continues his exploration of mundane corporate space in the game INFRA. A mix between performance and architectural critique, this is in-game photography documentation at its best. It also indicates a possible way for critics, artists and game developers to engage in a