GAME ART
Game Art: Ashley Anderson's "Our Lady of the Headshot" (2014)
Ashley Anderson, Our Lady of the Headshot, Ballpoint pen, 2014LINK: Ashley Anderson Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Event: Machinigirrlzzz @ GAMERZ 10 (October 2-12 2014, Aix en Provence, France)
Another spectacular event organized by Isabelle Arvers at Gamerz: a machinima mini-festival featuring works by Angela Washko, Anita Fontaine and Georgie Roxby Smith titled Machinigirrlzzz and hosted by the Fondation Vasarely. As Arvers writes:"Machinigirrlzzz is an exhibition of machinimas (movies created through video games), made by women
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Event: Machinima workshop at PLAY 14 (Sept 18–19, 2014, Hamburg)
French curator and critic Isabelle Arvers is organizing a two-day workshop about machinima to teenagers at the upcoming Game and Art Festival PLAY 14 in Hamburg, Germany. LINK : Machinima Workshop at PLAY 14 Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (via Isabelle Arvers)
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Event: No Quarter Exhibition (September 19-21, 2014, NYU)
Another killer No Quarter Exhibition organized by the NYU Game Center. The fifth in the series features four new games from established and emerging independent game developers and will be hosted at the new Waka Waka space in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. The games are Dog Park by
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Event: A MAZE. 2014 (September 10-13, 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa)
"Taking place in Braamfontein, A MAZE. / Johannesburg 2014 is set to become one of the hottest spots for games and playful media in Africa. Festival director and A MAZE. founder Thorsten S. Wiedemann says the A MAZE. 2014 programme is jam packed: “We are excited to bring together the
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Event: gameZfestival.ch 2.0 (September 19-21, 2014, Zurich, Switzerland)
Free entry! Mechanics Manifesto! What else can you ask for? Here's the 2014 event description: "gameZfestival is a festival for game design and games. The initial Festival was all about game mechanics. This year's dominant topic is "play together". The first video games
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Event: FAILE Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade (Edinburgh, August 1 - September 26, 2014)
In this short video, Patrick McNeil, 1/2 of FAILE, introduces the FAILE Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade Edinburgh 2014, an exhibition featuring specially programmed video games and pinball machines. The show, which debuted in December of 2013 at Art Basel Miami 2013, is based on the idea of audience participation.
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Article: Kent Sheely on WIRED
Kent Sheely, Ready for Action, grid #1, 2013. WIRED magazine published a compelling profile of Game Artist Kent Sheely. Here's an excerpt: "Today, in-game photography is a well-explored gaming off-shoot. The latest installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise actually encourages players to take
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Event: Lowtoy Festival #1 (September 25-27, 2014, Barcelona, Spain)
Lowtoy Festival #1 25-27/09/2014Festival Internacional de 8 Bit & DIY Electrònica de BarcelonaLocation: Fundació AAVC Hangar - Emilia Coranty 16 BarcelonaTime: 15:00 - midnightPrice: 7€ puerta/door - 5€ anticipada/advance"Lowtoy is glad to announce, the first 8 Bit & DIY Electronics Festival of Barcelona. It will
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Game Art: Max Rheiner's "Birdly" (2014)
Birdly is a full body flight simulator and virtual reality machine in which the players embodies a bird, the Red Kite, with sensory-motor coupling. Visualized through Oculus Rift, soar through the virtual landscape of San Francisco with a 3D model from PLW modelworks, heightened by sonic, olfactoric, and wind
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Game Art: Hunter Jonakin's "A Walkthrough for Modern Flaneur" (2014)
Hunter Jonakin has released "A walkthrough for Modern Flaneur", based on his 2013 interactive game Modern Flaneur (full title: Can You Hear Me Now? You'll Never Hear Me Again or Modern Flaneur: Extreme Wanderlust). Combining Charles Baudelaire with George Orwell, the Minneapolis-based digital artist redefines
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News: Game over, Harun Farocki (1944 - 2014)
We lost one of the most eclectic artists of the 20th Century, German filmmaker, philosopher, and videogamer Harun Farocki. His contributions to Game Art were outstanding. I would like to remember him with Parallel (2012), a 17-minute video essay on the status of computer-animated images, and Serious Games