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Douglas Coupland, Deep Face, 2015, acrylic on B&W photograph, mounted on diabondElectronic Superhighway (2016-1966)29 January - 15 May 2016. Whitechapel Gallery, LondonCurated by Omar Kholeif, Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) explores the intersections of art and technology over 50 years of dramatic change, through over 100 works of
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Curated by Marie Koch and Vladimir Demoule, How To Build a Universe Which Does Not Fall Apart Two Days Later is a new exhibition at legendary art gallery La Mainson Populaire. The show features work by COLL.EO (Colleen Flaherty and M;atteo Bittanti), Eva Chettle, Côme Di Meglio &
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James Capper, TELESTEP, 2015, courtesy the artist, Hannah Barry Gallery, London and Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York The Imitation Game @ Manchester Art Gallery Saturday 13 February 2016–Sunday 5 June 2016 Free entry I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?… Are there imaginable digital computers that would do
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At Hand Eye Society, Jim Munroe reviews some of the most interesting Game Art events of 2015. Read more here.
DOCUMENTARY
A short documentary on circuit bending created by Greg and Tim Andresen of Greater Sirens with Nick Petterson and Thomas McColskey for one of their classes at Expression College. It features interviews with Dmitri SFC, Derek Sajbel (a.k.a. Dr. Rek, circuit bending documentarian), Erin and Mark Pauley (Sounds
ART GAME
First of all, the full title of this piece si Cos-Mo Cap Astrodrome America: Omnidimensional Abdigital Countergravitational Ectotemporal Live System for Hyperterrestrial Synthesized Telecomputational Motion Capture and it was a live multiplayer game performed on stage (the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, last November, that is). Hansen explains: As
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In case you've missed Jonathan B.'s killer coverage of the latest Game Art events in Los Angeles, here's quick reminder: DIG (Digital, Interactive & Gaming) (Los Angeles, December 4th)Indiecade 2015 part one and part two...and the best coverage on the UCLA GameLab
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Vector, one of the world's greatest Game Art festivals, has just opened its Call for Submissions. The 2016 edition will take place in Toronto, Canada between July 14-17 2016. If you are submitting work for just one Game Art festival, this is it. Here's the
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Queerness and Video Games: Identity, Community, & Design Tuesday, January 5, 2016, 12:00 pm, Free and open to the public Lane Hall, RM2 (Rodriguez Lecture Hall) Stanford University Video games represent today's fastest-growing and arguably most expressive digital medium, rich with the potential to tell stories
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Under the direction of Jeremiah Diephuis, an instructor in the Media Technology & Design and Interactive Media programs at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg several students have developed Game Changer Suite, a collection of multiplayer games that encourage cooperative and competitive game playing. The gamers moving about
INTERVIEW
Tracy Harwood & Tony Garry's new work is a critical examination of design fiction and futurity through machinima. Walker Family: Health & Wellbeing, Circa 2020 examines the role of technology in an hyper-connected world, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT), from the point of view
Hugo Arcier
A new, powerful work by French artist Hugo Arcier recreates scenes of terror and violence within Grand Theft Auto V. With 11 Executions, Arcier stages brutal acts in which men and women of different ethnicities, social classes, and ages slaughter innocent people on the beach, on the highway, in the