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
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"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
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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
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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 apartment. As
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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
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"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-
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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
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At GameScenes we are mesmerized by Max Capacity's GIF series. The latest one pays homage to the classic SimCity. Pure love. LINK: Max Capacity Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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44th and Landis: Performance is a live sound art performance by American artist Margaret Noble. As she writes in her statement, 44th and Landis: Performance creates "an experimental narrative that blurs the lines between two distinctive time periods: 1980s urban culture and the Victorian era. Through music boxes, toys,
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"Bringing together the insights of assemblage theory, pragmatist aesthetics, and the sociology of art, this paper examines the cultural legitimation of ‘artgames’ as a category of indie games with particularly high cultural status. Passage (PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, 2007) serves as a case study, demonstrating how a diverse range
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Brown University's senior student Aimei Kutt's Sonata looks (and sounds) like a creative remake of Rez, but it's actually created from scratch in Java and OpenGL. This project was developed for a course titled 2D Game Engines in collaboration with Parker Porfilio. As Events
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Brooklyn-based artist Aaron Sherwood - who is also Artist in Residence at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, as well as a Masters Degree candidate at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program - has developed an interactive installation with the collaboration of Mike Allison. "A stretched sheet of spandex acts as