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The fields of arts and games are continuously and progressively intersecting, creating hybrids and cultural frames, mutually influencing each other. This is not new; arts have been using games as subject and material for millennia from depictions of athletes in ancient Greek sculpture to Yoko Ono’s All White Chess
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X Virtual Gathering: Honey November 1, 2024–February 14, 2025 X Museum Chaoyang District Langyuan Station, E1 (Building 10), No.53 Banjie Tower Road Beijing China press release Although the Chinese pictograph and title of the project refers to “honey,” it also morphologically entails its originator, the “bee” and its
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Cao Fei, Oz, 2022Cao Fei: My City is Yours曹斐: 欢迎登陆 30 November 2024 – 13 April 2025 Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery Road The Domain Sydney NSW 2000 AUSTRALIA official website press release In the largest exhibition of her work ever seen in Australia, Cao Fei (pronounced tsow
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LIMBUS IV single channel video (UHD), color, sound, 8’ 27”, 2024, France created by Hugo Arcier Limbus by Hugo Arcier is an ongoing machinima series that explores inaccessible spaces within video games such as Rage, Grand Theft Auto V and now Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II through the use of
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Kent Sheely, Bridge Creek, from the series Impression of Play, 2024 By overlaying wireframe structures on top of long-exposure video game screenshots, Kent Sheely creates a visual language that reveals the hidden architecture of digital gaming, a layer that is usually invisible to players but fundamental to their experience. The
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Harry Bayley discuss Bram Ruiter and Martin Gerrits’s seldom-seen homage to Phil Solomon, Infinite Skies (2011), which was screened at the 2024 Milan Machinima Festival. The screening inspired this thoughtful and poetic critique by our occasional contributor and machinimaker, Harry Bayley. “Here may indeed be torment, but not death.
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Alona Rodeh Interzone November 9, 2024–March 2, 2025 Opening: November 8, 7pm Light performance: November 8, 8:30pm, The Mood Organ, on the façade of Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen Horster Straße 5-7 D-45897 Gelsenkirchen Germany Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm press release Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen is pleased to present to
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REASONABLE TOO digital video (3840 x 1632), color, sound, 10’ 03”, 2018 (2024), United States/Italy created by COLL.EO October 11 - 24 2024 vral.org The second in a series of machinima by COLL.EO examining social and racial tensions in the United States produced between 2018 and
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Set against the backdrop of the 1974 Bulldozer Exhibition, Bulldozer Exhibition by Russian artist Mikhail Maksikov revisits one of the most pivotal moments in Soviet avant-garde history. On September 15, 1974, outrider and underground artists from Moscow and Leningrad gathered in Belyayevo, a district of Moscow, to defy Soviet censorship
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press release GAMES @ BERKELEY Friday, October 11, 2024 9:00 AM — 5:00 PM Banatao Auditorium (310 Sutardja Dai Hall) Berkeley University History and Theory of New Media special event co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies with Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research and Development, Institute
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AUTOCONSTRUCCIÓN digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 13’ 52”, 2024, Mexico created by Malitzin Cortés (CNDSD) and Iván Abreu vral.org Originally conceived and performed as a live-coded audiovisual concert and real-time video game animation, Autoconstrucción was collaboratively created by Malitzin Cortés (CNDSD) and Iván Abreu. The project, executed
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26 GASOLINE STATIONS digital video (1920 x 1080), colour, sound, 4’ 23”, 2016, Ireland created by Alan Butler September 13 - 26 2024 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org 26 GASOLINE STATIONS is a digital homage to Ed Ruscha’s iconic 1963 photobook, 26 Gasoline Stations. Ruscha’s work famously