GAME ART
Game Art: Brody Condon's "Grand Canyon BBQ" (2001)
A blast from the past. Brody Condon's The Sims screengrab. LINK : Brody Condon Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Game Art: Byron Rich's "Tweet Show" (2014)
To create Tweet Shot, Canadian artist and Assistant Professor of Digital Art & Painting at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania Byron Rich modded a fictional game gun control device and connected it to a laptop computer. In Version 1.0, When the trigger is pulled by a visitor, an email
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Game Art: Byron Rich's "Autonomous Player Simulation v1.0 (APS)" (2014)
Developed in collaboration with Ian F. Thomas and Alex Derwick, Byron Rich's Autonomous Player Simulation (APS) is "designed to engage the hyper-real experience of communication-technology based interactions as exemplified by online gaming and military drones ". Rich invesitages the growing separation between physical experience and
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Lecture: Lisa Nakamura's "Racism, Sexism, and Video Games: Social Justice Campaigns and the Struggle for Gamer Identity" (2014)
Professor Lisa Nakamura talks about racing and games at Meaningful Play Conference 2014. The event was sponsored by the Quello Center at Michigan State University and served as the opening event for the conference. LINK: Meaningful Play Conference 2014Submitted by Matteo BIttanti
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Game Art: Rodolfo Peraza's "JailHead: The Internet Prison" (2014)
Cuban Artist Rodolfo Peraza's new project is titled JailHead: The Internet Prison, and it is based on Presidio Modelo Prison, is a former “model prison” of Panopticon design, located on the Isla de la Juventud in Cuba, built between 1926 and 1931, during the repressive regime of Gerardo
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Event: Cable Griffith's "Domestic Landscapes" (November 13, 2014, Seattle)
Cable Griffith, Wall Pattern (installation detail), 2014, acrylic on panel, 8 x 10 inchesCable Griffith: Domestic LandscapesThursday, November 13 @ Two Shelves 212 11th Ave E, Apt 202 Seattle, WA 98102 7 - 10 PM Domestic Landscapes is a site-specific installation by Cable Griffith for the Seattle in-home gallery, Two
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Game Art: Rewell Altunaga's "Psychedelic War" (2014)
An excerpt from Rewell Altunaga's new machinima, Psychedelic War. LINK: Rewell Altunaga Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Video: Veiview's "Pleasure Sandbox" (2014)
More post-human VR pornography from Veiview. This reminds me of Made in Heaven, Jeff Koons' series of billboards with Ilona Staler. Just a different decade (or maybe not, our collective imaginary is still stuck in the '90s) and a different medium. Developed with Unity for the Oculus
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Game Art: BOT LIVES IV: GTA PORTRAITS (2014)
With his ongoing BOT LIVES IV series, multimedia artist Iñigo Benito Molinero (b. 1987) aka Bonifacio explores the behavior of NPCs in Grand Theft Auto. This video was presented at the 2014 edition of NOKODEK festival. Bonifacio lives and works in Valencia, Spain, where he obtained an MFA (2012) in
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Game Art: Benjamin Meadows' "Hidden Voices: Homeless DonkeyKong" (2014)
Hidden Voices: Homeless DonkeyKong is an animated video produced by Benjamin Meadows at Salford University to be installed in the Wigan town center. Inspired by Nintendo's Donkey Kong, this community arts project was developed in collaboration with several homeless groups within Wigan. As Meadows explains, "Over the
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Event: Impakt Festival 2014 (October 29–November 2, 2014, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Impakt Festival 2014 October 29–November 2, 2014 Utrecht, The Netherlands Titled Soft Machines: Where the Optimized Human Meets Artificial Empathy, the The 25th edition of Imparkt features several Game Art events and screenings, including works from Brody Condon, Benjamin Nuel, and Jon Rafman. In addition to the curated program
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Event: Le Salon Ludique (October 16, 2014, Montreal, Canada)
Salon Ludique 1: SoundscapesOctober 16th. 7pm. $5.@Espace Fibre 2665, rue Augustin-Cantin, 2nd FloorMontreal (QC) H3K 3L12RVSPA brand new initiative from curator and critic skot deeming aka mrghosty, Le Salon Ludique is an interdisciplinary salon series at Espace Fibre, in Montreal, Canada, ready for its debut.The series is