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THE NYC ARCADE curated by The Sheep's Meow January 15, 2015 at 6 PM Microsoft, 11 Time Square, New York, NY 10036 RSVP, FREE ENTRY Play the latest locally-developed games & interactive experiences with the creators! An insane number of independent games for otherwordly ludic experiences. Full list
BOOK
My new project is titled How to get rid of homeless. The medium of choice is print. Or, rather, post-print. A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013), How to get rid of homeless reproduces
ANALOG
A radical rethinking of Super Mario Bros.' scrolling feature. In Keith Lam's Moving Mario, a game mechanic becomes truly mechanical. This work received an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica 2008. As Lam writes: By grabbing partial concept and some of the key elements behind the TV game
GAME ART
Daniel Canogar, Game Over, 2014. discarded game boy pieces, wood, projector, multimedia playerPhoto and video credit: Daniel Canogar, Sofía Montenegro, John Berens, Martha Williams, bitforms Gallery. Born in Madrid in 1964, Spanish artist Daniel Canogar received an M.A. from NYU and the International Center for Photography in 1990. His
DOCUMENTARY
Now available on VIMEO Video on Demand. "A documentary exploring the story of the queer gaming community, 'gaymer' culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games. A lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise queer gamer has a higher chance of being mistreated in
ART GAME
From Swiss artist Simon de Diesbach comes a new project based on VR technology, OccultUS: "OccultUs is an installation that exploits the potential of the Occulus Rift technology and offers an absorbing virtual reality display. It immerses the user in a sensory experience that mixes two distinct realities: the
ART GAME
Addie Wagenknecht, Art Wars: You Slept With Your Curator, 2012 lambda print 31.5 x 39.3 in / 80 x 100 cm edition of 3 Art Wars is a series of prints derived from an online game, which allows players to vicariously experience all the thrills of the artist'
GAME
Fantastic Christmas gift from NYU Game Center: all the video lectures and presentations are now available for free. Film and/or video recordings of all entries can be found in the NYU Game Center archive. Below is Cara Ellison's lecture The Birth of the Gamemaker, which took place
GAME ART
Above is a one minute segment of Phil Solomon's 2008-2009 project Still Raining, Still Dreaming courtesy of Urban Video Project. The video, which has a duration of 12 minutes and 14 seconds, was screened in 2013 at Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse in December 2013. Still Raining,
GAME
With Idle Animation, artist Aaron Hynds documents his gameplay activity through a four-channel video installation. This work was presented at the Digital Perceptions Exhibition in 2014, which took place at the Willard Wankelman Gallery at Bowling Green State University during ArtsX 2014. Idle Animation uses footage from Kentucky Route Zero.
GAME ART
What happens to the body when it adheres to computational logic? With Glitching, artist Beverly Hood examines the movements of sports and action computer games and applies them to humans beings. Created with the use of a Microsoft Kinect 3D sensor, Glitching invites the viewer "to step into the
GAME ART
In this work by Robert Overweg from 2011, a sex worker from Gran Theft Auto IV is seen through the window of a "real" car (read: photo realistic) . Her Name is Candy has an interactive element: viewers can send a text message to the virtual character and receive