Beginning this semester, I will be teaching a Course titled GameScenes: Art in the Age of Videogames at California College of the Arts, in the Visual Studies Program. It is both a spin-off of this ongoing project but also a new point of departure. The first of a series of initiatives about Game Art @ CCA.
The abridged syllabus is available here.
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