GAME ART
Yasururu Sororo is "an imaginary encyclopedia of Paraguayan history in video game format" created by video artist Daniel Milessi and presented in the Paraguayan pavilion of the 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. This revisionist history deals with the plight of a country from colonialism to
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Brent Watanabe, dispose( ), 2015, Computer-controlled installation A new collaboration between painter Cable Griffith and new media artist and programmer Bren Watanabe (after for(){}; in 2013), dispose( ); is an open world game that takes place on different media. It can be played on 24 acrylic on canvas paintings as well as
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Brent Watanabe, San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam, 2015-16studies for computer-controlled installation, Modified version of Grand Theft Auto V There's little doubt that Watanabe's installation is one of the most ridiculously brilliant Game Art projects of 2016. I find the San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam way more
3D ANIMATION
Lawrence Lek, Gravity's Folly, 2015Real-time architectural simulation; Three portrait full HD screens; GTX Gaming PC.Variable duration A new, mesmerizing installation by Lawrence Lek, Gravity's Folly is "a virtual world based on the tradition of the architectural folly: classical garden pavilions whose only purpose was
ARCADE
What happens when you crank up the Painstation to 11? You get War of the Currents, a one-a-kind "cabinet with custom-milled metal joysticks wired with real voltage, and a 1 on 1 fighting game featuring the masters of electricity." Electrocution has never been so much fun. War of
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A new project by Ansh Patel, Trialogue is "(A)n inter-media game performance that transforms the process of game creation, playing and experiencing it into a playful tug-of-war of control, caught in a cultural and economic system which seeks to reinforce the status quo." Trialogue is a multi-media
3D ANIMATION
A terrific work by Ian Cheng (b. 1984, Los Angeles) which appropriates videogame aesthetics to document the history of cognitive evolution, past and future. Described as a live simulation and story, Emissary in the Squat of Gods was presented by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy) between April 23 until
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Peter Buczkowski, a designer from Bremen, Germany, investigates the relationship between work and play in his latest installation, Current Times, which he describes as an update to Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). A meditation of gamification and neoliberal notions of "efficiency", Current Times is about players being
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Tommy Chain, Enduring Freedom, Mixed-media sculpture & video, Dimensions variable, video 4.05 min, HD video, stereo sound, Concrete, steel, extruded styrene, paint, c stand, TV, 2015 "Enduring Freedom is a discomix tableau that utilizes the form of a FPS computer game, a consumer media object with naïve political
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Dave Ball, I've Always Wanted to Drive Across America, 2016; (video documentation of) installation with playable 'Desert Bus' video game, accompanied by spoken-word soundtrack in which the artist describes from memory every overseas trip he has ever made. My comment is frankly redundant, but I'
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J.B. Wejman, Une table modifiée pour une machine qui génère un monde qui génère un personnage qui génère un voyage, 2014. Installation view The title of this installation can be roughly translated as "A modified table for a machine that generates a world that generates a character that
3D ANIMATION
Tabor Robak, Dog Park, two-channel video, self generative computer animation, 2015 A former graphic designer who used to design the billboards in Times Square, Tabor Robak has elevated videogame aesthetics into a new visual language that is, at once, proudly one-dimensional and shiny-slick. Dog Park remediates the computer screen saver