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
Hand Eye Society Ball curated by Sagan Yee and Jim Munroe September 24, 2016 Toronto, Canada Tickets available here "LESS THAN TWO WEEKS TO THE 3rd ANNUAL HAND EYE SOCIETY BALL! And have we got some news for you: After hours of playtesting submissions from local artists and curators,
AR
ENTER THE GAME In collaboration with Associate Professor Manthos Santorinaios and the “MA in Art and Virtual Reality” of the Athens School of Fine Arts and Université Paris 8. “Enter the Game” is an artistic approach to the world of gaming and an allegory on space, seen through the perspective
3D ANIMATION
"SUPERNOVA presents a thoroughly unique and intellectually engaging program that reflects the important and ongoing influence that gaming culture is having on digital animation and contemporary art amongst some of today's most pioneering talents from across the globe. SUPERNOVA Outdoor Digital Animation and Art Festival taking place
GAME ART
COLL.EO, INTERVALLO IV, 2016, HD video, sound, color, 3' 33" "INTERVALLO (literally, Intermission) is a series of short machinima paying tribute to a popular Italian TV program produced by RAI. The videos showcase thematically arranged screenshots of Forza Horizon 2 (Microsoft, 2014) collected by fans, uploaded
GAME ART
Robert What, Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst – off map, virtual photography exhibition, 2016 Notes (excerpt): "– rich mannequins with dead soulless eyes, standing around and pretending to live – wishing you could kick that “hey you, runner – over here” guy in the face repeatedly – the irony of building sites in an unfinished
ART GAME
Numerik Games c/o Maison d’Ailleurs Place Pestalozzi 14 1400 Yverdon-les-Bains Switzerland Cool indie game selection: * Blök Quest (Joël « Zapped Cow » Lauener) * Cheat’N’Teach (I3 Game Jam Fribourg) * Don’t Kill Her (Wuthrer) * Eur (Sarah Bourquin, Etienne Frank & Antoine Tuloup) * Everblind (Digital Kingdom) * Hell’Eluya (Oniroforge) * Looking
ARCHITECTURE
CITY | SPACE | VIDEO GAMES A series of talks exploring the relationship between video games, history, art and architecture. Curated by Foteini Aravani Museum of London 150 London Wall London EC2Y 5HN The Museum of London is programming a series of talks around our video games collection in September-November 2016. The
ART GAME
Angela Washko is debuting her new work at Transfer Gallery: a meta-game about the pick up artist scene. Genius: ‘The Game: The Game’ is an immersive installation and platform to experience the first chapter of a video game presenting the practices of several prominent seduction coaches (aka pick-up artists) through
VIDEO
No, this is not How can you love one child more than another? VR EDITION. This is the VR update of Dead or Alive 3: Extreme for the PlayStation 4. More info here.PS Jon RafmanHow can you love one child more than another? 201318 Dakimakura body pillows94 × 235 × 30
ART GAME
Highly recommended: "Towards an Art History for Videogames" By Lana Polansky at Rhizome "Die Entscheidung: A Matter of Life or Death" By Martin Hieslmair @ ARS ELECTRONICA Artificial Ecology: Ian Cheng on the Strange Art of Simulating Life, and the Conceptual Merits of Pokémon Go by Dylan
INSTALLATION
Described by Bredenberg as a "Dyst-ironical speculative fiction machinima," Last Worker Standing is machinima about a multipurpose multitasking vacuum cleaning robot sweeping floors of ruined industrial loft premises of an abandoned startup company. As the artist writes: "Last Worker Standing shows one possible outcome of automation of
CONCEPTUAL
Intriguing project by conceptual game photographer Robert What consisting of "396 lightly customized snapshots of popular cs:go maps outside regular official play boundaries": this project conceives the voids between surfaces (and or surface-voids) not only as a postmodernist critique of digital architectures, but as a means to