ART GAME
Experience detailed, true-to-life recreations of beautiful and diverse locations around the world. Trek through and explore environments to capture stunning vistas and landscapes with your fully-featured in-game camera. Each environment is filled with objectives to reward players that have a good eye for angles and perspectives, and hidden secrets for
3D ANIMATION
Matthew Earl Williams, Twentysix Gasoline Stations In Grand Theft Auto V, 2014-24, digital prints, Each 16 x 20 inches framed, © m. earl Williams, Courtesy of the artist.Just Playin' Aroundcurated by Nancy Downes-Le Guin and Theo Downes-Le GuinJanuary 21 - April 26 2025Jordan Schnitzer Museum of ArtPSU1855 SW BroadwayPortland,
MUSEUM
Matthew Earl Williams Indians from the Uncanny Valley January 25 – March 7, 2024 Ithaca College 953 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 1/25/2024 Opening Reception 5 – 6:30pm 1/25/2024 Artist Talk: 1:15p.m A Tintype is a one-of-a-kind positive image on a metal plate and a
ART GAME
Polina Lobanova and Josef Seidl are a Berlin-based artist duo whose work challenges the standardized, boring, flat aesthetic of modern computing by exploring the tactile and intimate dimensions of digital devices. Their practice moves beyond the conventional interfaces of contemporary technology, instead creating artifacts that evoke personal engagement, ambiguity, and
COLLABORATION
Lea Van Hall, There are some things about places you just don’t realise until you leave them, 2024 ceramic, video game; sound: Éléa Brando, typography:Tigran Saakyan, installation view; photo: HFBKLea Van Hall, There are some things about places you just don’t realise until you leave them, 2024
3D ANIMATION
Leyuan Li, Half Day Tour, video installation, 2024, installation view, photo: HFBK Hamburg Leyuan Li, Half Day Tour, video installation, 2024, screenshot, photo: HFBK Hamburg Half Day Tour is a video installation by Leyuan Li, derived from a game he developed and recorded. In this work, the artist assumes the
GAME ART
Rabu Rabu digital video, colour, sound, 18’ 18”, 2024, Hong Kong. created by Hou Lam Tsui vral.org Rabu Rabu (meaning lovey-dovey in Japanese) reimagines and subverts the conventions of Japanese dating simulation games, known for their focus on interactions with attractive young female characters. Instead, it presents a fictional
PAINTING
Tadić’s approach bridges the gap between painting and digital culture, translating the semiotics of video games into oil on canvas. His insistent use of HUDs (heads-up displays) and interface elements does not merely reference gaming nostalgia but interrogates the gamification of contemporary urban life, where financial instability, physical exhaustion,
ACADEMIC COURSE
Video Games: Past, Present, and Future BCNM 20th Anniversary Special Event This special event, part of the Berkeley Center for New Media’s 20th-anniversary celebration, brings together scholars, archivists, and industry professionals to explore the transformative impact of video games. Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies,
EVENT
Lisa Broms and Vanja Ivarsson: Save Points Galleri Redan February 7 - March 15 2025 Amiralsgatan 9, Malmö, Sweden Lisa Broms and Vanja Ivarsson, two Malmö-based artists, operate within a post-internet aesthetic that fuses digital iconography with a tactile, painterly sensibility. Their work is characterized by acidic color palettes, fluid,
3D ANIMATION
Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices curated by Rafael Fajardo January 9 - February 23 2025 Vicki Myhren Gallery 2121 E. Asbury Ave. Denver, CO 80210 press release The Vicki Myhren Gallery is proud to present Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices, curated by DU’s own Rafael Fajardo, Professor of Emergent Digital Practices.
CONCEPTUAL
Awaiting Oblivion digital video, colour, sound, 20’ 23”, 2024, Russia created by Natalie Maximova World premiere vral.org Awaiting Oblivion interrogates the collapse of simulated reality in The Last of Us Part II, uncovering spaces where the boundaries between representation and existence dissolve. As the digital world fractures into glitches