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
Madrid-based photographer Javier Laspiur documented the history and evolution of game controllers with a series of photographs that he took in 2014. Laspiur photographed himself, sitting on a brown sofa, with each console he played over the years, beginning with Teletenis in 1983 and ending, three decades later, with
BOOK
An outstanding examination of what makes gaming truly fascinating by Stephanie Boluk (Assistant professor in the English department and Cinema and Digital Media Program at University of California, Davis) and Patrick LeMieux (artist, game designer, and assistant professor in the Cinema and Digital Media Program at University of California, Davis)
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A brand new book from one of my all time heroines: Anne-Marie Schleiner, The Player's Power to Change the Game. It's out now from Amsterdam University Press and it's a must read. It's a slim book (162 pages) but contains multitudes.
3D ANIMATION
Ian Cheng, Emissary Forks at Perfection, 2015–16. Collection Fondation Louis Vuitton. Courtesy of the artist; Pilar Corrias Gallery, London; and Standard (Oslo), Oslo. Ian Cheng EMISSARY FORKS featuring THOUSAND ISLANDS April 21–September 9, 2017 Espace Louis Vuitton München Maximilianstraße 2a 80539 Munich Germany Hours: Monday–Friday 12–7pm,
3D ANIMATION
"MoMA PS1 presents Ian Cheng’s (b. 1984) first US museum solo presentation, featuring the artist’s complete Emissary trilogy (2015–17), a series of live simulation works created using a video game engine. Described by the artist as “a video game that plays itself,” the works are comprised
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Joseph DeLappe, Liberty Weeps, 2015Joseph DeLappe April 15, 2017 2-4 pm Sonoma Museum of Art 551 Broadway Sonoma, California 95476 If you are in the Bay Area, don't miss the conversation between artist Joseph DeLappe and writer/editor/educator Dorothy R. Santos . Santos’ research interests include new
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Pippin Barr's latest project is an (in)direct homage to Harun Farocki. Barr adapted the first chapter of his monumental work Parallel (2012-2014) project into an interactive, virtual museum about digital water set in the Marfa buildings (read, the 3D models) used for his previous project v
3D ANIMATION
HyperPavilion A large scale exhibition during the 57th Venice Biennale (Arsenale Nord) Preview days May 9 – 12, 2017 Open to the public from May 13 – October 30, 2017 The upcoming Biennial of Art in Venice, Italy will host the very first HyperPavilion, focusing on the latest and greatest in digital
ART GAME
"DarkLight", Sarah Bourquin, Jessica Friedling, Valérie Pierrehumbert, Eun-Sun Lee © HEAD – Genève, Michel Giesbrecht "Penumbra", Margaux Charvolin, Isabel Viadest © HEAD – Genève, Michel GiesbrechtSALONE LUDICO @ Salone internazionale del Mobile di Milano Brera Design District c/o Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery Arte Contemporanea Via Goito 7, 20121 Milan, Italy
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I'm thrilled to announce the release of MACHINIMA. 32 conversazioni sull'arte del videogioco, a new book featuring interviews with international artists using video games to make art. MACHINIMA. 32 conversazioni sull'arte del videogioco expands, in print form, both the exhibition GAME VIDEO/ART. A
GAME ART
"What is real, what is artificial? The border between the two is beginning to fade. In the visual language of the advertising industry, the border between real photography and digitally calculated models is almost indistinguishable. This also applies to the film industry, where CGI (computer generated imagery) seamlessly blends
ART GAME
I wonder why it's titled "The" Franz Kafka Videogame as opposed to Franz Kafka: The Videogame. And no, it's not by Pippin Barr. LINK: Denis Galani