MIXED MEDIA
Born in Athens in 1975, Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos uses videogames and other popular cultural artifacts as a source of inspiration - both on a conceptual and aesthetic level. The result of this interaction can be seen, for instance in the series The Great Golden Room, which he describes on his website
PAINTING
"Sim City" is a series of paintings about a virtual megalopolis imagine by Sim Chan (b. 1987) young Chinese artist living in Hong Kong, an obvious fan of Will Wright's urban simulation. The fact that Chan's first name is Sim makes this artwork uber-referential.
GAME ART
Australian artist Chris Howlett' latest project is titled Bushtalkers, "a Two Player Interactive Game Mod which used the Unreal Tournament 3 game engine to create a giant fantasy forest where two players could explore aimlessly without the capability to shoot their guns. Their only guide was a series
GAME ART
"The 2.0 version of This Is No Game, a new media performance piece created and presented in Montreal, May 2011. This Is No Game is a performance project where the public is invited to take control over the actions of two performers through a video game metaphor and
GAME ART
"Winter 1990. Everyone Around Me Was Hooked. Moments Went By Without Any Movement. GoodByeWinter" (Audio Visual) LINK : Audio Visual Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
Portuguese artist Sandra "s-ara" Araújo has created a series of impressive game-art mash-ups. "Tape Loading Error" is my favorite: "Animation exploring the visual culture of video games and the spread of popular gif files. The imagery of Magritte's surrealist paintings gives a working
ART GAME
"A problematization of Cory Arcangel's "I Shot Andy Warhol," which he created by hacking and rewriting the game "Hogan's Alley" for the NES." (Adam Rosenberg) LINK : Adam Rosenberg Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
Joseph Delappe, Work in Progress, 2012, (working title "The Terrorist Other"), polygon sculpture. Joseph Delappe is working on a new sculpture created from extracted Taliban avatar data from EA's Medal of Honor fps. As he explains on his website, "I've taken a Taliban
GAME ART
Dominic Hislop, Little Chance: Water Walk - DIY, Interactive computer game environment, 2012 German arist Hislop's "Adaptation of a reenactment of John Cage's 'Water Walk' - DIY" is an interactive audio walk in the virtual domestic environment of the artist's
EVENT
Raquel Meyers and Goto80 31st January Performance Paper / Transmediale 013 22:30 to 23:30 – Café Global stage – Haus der Kulturen der Welt "Mind the Volcano is a text-based TV-performance with a typewriter logic. All the visuals consist of text characters, based on words and images from books. The
GAME ART
"Untitled I-IV (After Dirk Skreber) is an iteration of After Cars (2012) inspired by Dirk Skreber's Car Crashes Sculptures. After creating a series of apocalyptic paintings of wrecked, impaled cars in desolated, apocalyptic environments (consider, for instance, the bewildering It Rocks Us So Hard Ho-Ho-Ho and It
EVENT
Via Eric Medine: 8-Bit Palimpsesta LAVA fundraiser "This January LAVA is going to Mexico City for the LPM festival, a three-day multimedia event featuring audiovisual performances, VJing, workshops, panel discussion, product showcases presented by hundreds of VJs, audiovisual artists, new media professionals and thinkers from around the world. For