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
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,
ANALOG
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,
3D ANIMATION
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
GAME ART
Liberty City Crawl is the latest installment of the Grand Theft Auto IV interventions series by COLL.EO, a project comprising mods, machinima, and in-game photography, starring the likes of Vito Acconci, Adrian Piper, and David Wojnarowicz. In Liberty City Crawl, the avatar of William Pope.L replays seminal
ART GAME
HACKING / MODDING / REMIXING AS FEMINIST PROTEST Curated by Angela Washko Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University Opening Reception: Friday, January 27th (6-8pm) Show runs January 28 - February 26 Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University Purnell Center for the Arts 5000 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 A new timely group
ART GAME
Don't miss Paolo Pedercini's keynote on April 20, 2017. Plus, Various urban games will be on hand and ready to be played at the conference for anyone who’s interested in experiencing the fun for themselves. These break-out sessions will be run by game designers
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Brent Watanabe's latest project is the follow up to his hugely influential San Andreas Deer Cam (2015-2016). The San Andreas Community Cam is a live video stream from a computer running a modded version of Grand Theft Auto V, hosted on Twitch.tv. Broadcast will begin on
GAME ART
COLL.EO's The Fregoli Delusions will be screened at foto_museum Winterthur, in Switzerland as part of Ludicious, Zurich Game Festival 2017 between January 26-29, 2017. The Fregoli Delusions is also part of SITUATIONS_RE-ENACTMENT, featuring Omer Fast, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Michael Riedel, and Morehshin Allahyari.
GAME ART
Aram Bartholl's appoem*, "dash clash rush crush smash crash", has post-futurist echoes and data mining aspirations. ("crush", pictured above). Each word comprising the poem refers to titles of games listed in the Google PlayStore. LINK: Aram Bartholl* poetry created with/within an app
GAME ART
Angela Washko's seminal series Free Will Mode consists of a series of videos in which the artists uses "The Sims to place human artificial intelligence into architectural situations which test the constraints of their ability to rethink the environments they’ve been placed in." Washko'
ART GAME
Cable Griffith, Wile (collaboration with Brent Watanabe) - installation detail, 2017, mixed media, custom computer application, video projection, 96 x 96 x 5 inches. Photo: Cable GriffithPUSH PLAY Curated by Melissa E. Feldman January 12 – March 4, 2017 Opening: January 12, 5-8 pm Hedreen Gallery (Seattle University), 901 12th Ave,
GAME ART
A merican artist Justin Berry is a prolific and talented game photographer. His series of virtual landscapes that began in 2012 is complemented by interesting game-based installations, including Offduty (2014), a three-channel video installation which appropriates the popular first person shooter Call of Duty by Activision. Berry'