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iam8bit Gallery, 2147 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026 Opening night on Friday, June 7, 7 - 11p.m (Exhibit to run through June 30) Featuring 80+ artists including Aled Lewis, Brent Kobayashi, Zac Gorman, Darick Maasen, Gianmarco Magnani, Jim Rugg, Jude Buffum and many more. LINK: iam8bit Submitted
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Dan O'Neill created this series of motion scultpures using Cinema 4D, Vray, Xpresso and Thinking Particles. As he explains on his site, Dan edited the motion captures from this archive and used Microsoft Kinect as well. He tweaked the character models from Free 3D Models and obtained a
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The Church Of Whatever is a new audiovisual band formed by Spanish artist Entter (ex-Meneo, nee Raúl Berrueco, 1977) and HISS, a young bleep-techno producer from Treviso, Italy. Berrueco i s widely known for his visual focus on retro arcade and low-fi gaming graphics from the Golden Age of home
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At Visual News, Benjamin Starr writes about a huge collection of animated GIFs created by gamer/redditor RudeBootie. More than 125 images display beat'em up backgrounds from classic titles like Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Darkstalkers, and many more sans the fighting action. Conceptually, this project is on
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Come see a one-night-only screening of the award-winning documentary The Space Invaders: In Search of Lost Time by Jeff Von Ward, a recent graduate of the M.F.A. in Writing program at California College of the Arts. Among other things, Jeff edits the popular City Lights podcast series, Live!
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Mike Pelletier - who created, among other things, CuteXDoom (2009) with Anita Fontaine (an impressive series of art game mods based on Unreal Tournament 3) - has produced the most amazing Kinect-based art I have seen so far. These portraits make full use of the 3D scanning capabilities of Microsoft&
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Image credit: Handmade Studios "Space Maestro is an interactive Kinect experience that enables players to create their own musical universe through free-form movement in physical space. By spatially moving both hands like a maestro conducting an orchestra, players fuse gas clouds in space into stars. As new stars are
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Photo by: Håkon ‘Archmage’ Repstad, Mark Thomas ‘Aumtron’ Ross and Jake ‘Jellica’ Manley (source: Click Festival) Swedish 8-bit master-of-disaster Goto80 is about to unleash his book Computer Rooms to unsuspecting legions of geeks. Expect "A photo collection of private computer rooms, often featuring older machines. A rarely documented aspect
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Marc Owen's Avatar Machine - first mentioned on GameScenes five years ago - "replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. The system potentially allows for a diminished
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Phil Solomon; Empire, 2008-2012. HD video, 48 minutes Phil Solomon: Before and After the Falls @ Young Projects, Los Angeles (Part of Design Lab at the Pacific Design Center) Opening Thursday May 16th 6pm to 9pm Through August 2, 2013 "Known as one of the key filmmakers of the American
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If you read Italian, here's a book for you: An edited collection of essays on machinima featuring a variety of contributions on topics ranging from art to performance, appropriation and subversions. This is part of the ongoing Ludologica books series. Ttitle: Machinima! Teorie. Pratiche. Dialoghi. Edited by: Matteo
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Roger Machado deconstructs vintage Atari games. Above: 1N=V4S10N. Below: Else_3rr0r. Both projects were released in 2012. LINK: Roger Machado related Submitted by Matteo Bittanti