ART GAME
All images courtesy of SPIELSALON Stephan Richard Hanf, one of the organizers of the indie/game art event SPIELSALON, just sent us really good news about the upcoming second edition: "The SPIELSALON is the festival of author games. It represents the artistic development of computer games. New German and
DANCE
"What kind of process is a person running amok going through just before he is going to kill people? What kind of effects has a computer game like “Grand Theft Auto” on these people and the way they are observing reality? For his solo Fabien Prioville, former dancer of
ART GAME
Developed by C arles F. Julià, Daniel Gallardo and Sebastián Mealla C., Waterdrops is a collaborative game for public spaces. The installation requires players to extinguish fire by using water flows controlled via tangible pipes on a tabletop interface. Players can control both the direction and intensity of the water
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Kieran Nolan is a lecturer with the Section of Creative Media at Dundalk Institute of Technology’s School of Informatics and Creative Arts, and a PhD researcher with the GV2 group and Arts Technology Research Lab at Trinity College, Dublin. He is also an external examiner for the MA in
3D ANIMATION
Notendo, Jon Baken, Josh Knapp, and Gabe Liberti, Membrane, 2013 The Oculus Rift is to 2013 what the Kinect was in 2010. That is: hundreds of artists will truly exploit its power while gaming companies will likely disappoint with boring VR variations of existing genres. One example is Notendo'
GAME ART
Kent Sheely's new Game Art project provocatively mixes the visuality of first-person shooters games with the aesthetics of another popular genre, YouTube tour videos. The result is a potentially lethal voyeuristic experience set in simulated spaces (Disneyworld, a truly dystopian-Escape from Toworrow kind of non-place), global mega-museums (Paris&
GAME ART
Jeff Donaldson, MTPO PRG ROM, 2013 (Photos by John De Cristofaro) The latest work from glitch maestro Jeff Donaldson aka Notendo is a 6x5’ knit blanket design based on the program ROM data for the classic boxing game Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!! released by Nintendo on the NES in
GAME
Jed Henry and Dave Bull re-imagine The Legend of Zelda and Donkey Kong in ukiyo-e style (source, via Hyperallergic) Andrew Webster (The Verge) on Atari 2600 games cover art. Rainer Sigl (Videogame Tourism) talks to Dan Pinchbeck (Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone To The Rapture). Jed Henry and Dave
Jon Rafman
Jon Rafman, A Man Digging, machinima, 2013 * * * * Installation view (images: Zach Feur Gallery, NY) From the press release: "In A Man Digging, a virtual flaneur undertakes an evocative journey through the uncanny spaces of video game massacres in Max Payne 3. In a re-visioning of the game, Rafman radically
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GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this fascinating artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the
3D ANIMATION
I admit it: I am super super late to the party. As always. Anyhow, thanks to McKenzie Wark, I have just "discovered" the work of SaveMe Oh, and I can't stop watching these incredible machinima. By the way, SaveMe Oh is a "dutch theatredirector with