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Photo (c) Fanny Candelaere Devant l'appareil enregistreur (Before the recording device ) is the title of Nicolas Tilly's latest performance focusing on facial architecture, motion scanning, simulation, and art as byproducts of digital gaming. For this project, the artist is wearing a paper mask made of 240
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The ninth edition of one of the world's best Game Art festivals will take place, once again, in beautiful Aix-en-Provence. More than 50 international artists will be exhibiting their works in five different locations: Donald Abad - Ewen Chardronnet - Renaud Bézy - Thomas Cimolaï - Colsonwood -
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Michal Rohal, a student at the Department of Visual Arts and Intermedia (FUTU, KVUaI), Nu-Media Atelier in Kosice, is the author of this ingenous virtual sound installation/game. Silent Box was exhibited @ MOS /Małopolski Ogród Sztuki, Krakow in 2013.LINK: Michal RohalSubmitted by Matteo Bittanti
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This amazing performance features real human beings as they fight for their life in combat-game simulation, Game On. The last artist who did something as daring, creative, and bold was Eddo Stern, in 2001. As Australian artist Michaela Davies writes: " Game On uses electric muscle stimulation (EMS) to control
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Kent Sheeley's "READY FOR ACTION" puts "video game characters at the mercy of public transportation."In all cases, the soundtrack of the original game(s) (True Crime, Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne and many more) has been blended with audio captured while waiting for
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Following Bit, 2013 (Images courtesy of Coll.eo) FOLLOWING BIT is a new project by Coll.eo. "I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. [...] The way I thought of pieces like Following Piece was, there’s a city out there. I attend
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A new groundbreaking series from Jeremy Couillard: One Minute Movies. Jeremy Couillard (b. 1980, Livonia, Michigan) is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Michigan State University (B.A., 2004) and Columbia University (M.F.A., 2012), Couillard has created a series of acrylic paintings, kinetic sculptures,
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Video documentation from Maria Lujan Oulton: " In August Game on! El arte en juego visited Cordoba city invited by Spain Cultural Center. The exhibition was accompanied by a series of activities like talks, workshops and the avant-premiere of Us and the game industry" (Oulton).Related: Interview with Maria
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Polybius, the latest video from Scottish artist and filmaker John Houston is a triumph of ludic retronostalgia. Julian Corries performs at the bottom of a pool, surrounded by joysticks, old consoles, monitors, and keyboards. Computer keyboards, that is. All those cables and wires remind me of a Manetas' painting.
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Waco Resurrection (2003 - 2004) All images courtesy of the artists A seminal piece of Game Art developed by Michael Wilson, Eddo Stern, Jessica Hutchins, Brody Condon, Peter Brinson and Mark Allen: "Revisiting the 1993 Waco, Texas episode, gamers enter the mind and form of a “resurrected” David Koresh
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A video re-cap of one of the most exciting Game Art festivals in the US. More highlights below: LINK: UCLA Gamelab Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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This is quite phenomenal: " Super Mario world-record speedrun + Plumbing inspection footage = Frantic pipe exploration. Speedrun completed by Andrew Gardikis, December 15 2011" (Kent Sheely). This would be a good time to (re)watch Henry Lowood's 2010 talk, "Players are Artists Too": LINK: Kent Sheely