EVENT
"BLIP FESTIVAL NEW YORK 2011 Fifth Anniversary Edition May 19-21 2011 · at Eyebeam 540 West 21st Street · New York NY 10011 US Propelled forth from the forgotten abyss of yesterday’s future is Blip Festival NYC 2011. Co-presented by 8bitpeoples and The Tank, Blip Festival showcases the
EVENT
"An Interactive Installation for a Large Group of Viewers, 2010 Technical Direction and Art Direction : Keyvane Alinaghi 3D Infography : Simon Lebon (Meconopsys) Dedicated software development : Damien Marchal With support from the DICREAM, the EnsadLab, as part of the school’s research program on relational set-ups. Additional support from
Digital Print
"A series of interactions with Kinect's infrared structured light With these images I was exploring the unique photographic possibilities presented by using a Microsoft Kinect as a light source. The Kinect - an inexpensive videogame peripheral - projects a pattern of infrared dots known as "structured light"
GAME ART
from the digital video "LAST DAYS IN A LONELY PLACE" by Phil Solomon (2007) "In Last Days in a Lonely Place, Phil Solomon transforms the virtual landscapes of a video game into an existential tale of solemn beauty." Kathy Geritz, Irina Leimbacher) "Farewell my friends
MUSIC
"Video performance using a hacked Jakks Pacific's Namco TV Games - Ms. Pac-Man Collection unit, a custom controller and Pure Data to perform with. Introduced in 1981, the Galaga arcade game became a classic alien invasion game for the company Namco. Twenty-five years into the future,
GAME ART
Martin Backes, Pixelhead, limited multiple (coming soon), 2010 Dimensions: 60 x 30 cm Material: satin stretch, fabric printing color, photo "The full face mask Pixelhead acts as media camouflage, completely shielding the head to ensure that your face is not recognizable on photographs taken in public places without securing
ART GAME
"Starting from one or two spots in the environment, it will slowly but surely spread out and trace the world. It can only grow over edges, meaning that certain areas may remain 'uninfected'. This is where crowd interaction comes in. People can use their body to carry
ART GAME
'The website connects to a Counter-Strike's server - which is an online war game - and retrieves in real-time frags (when a player kills another). These frags trigger a search by chronological order in the Wikileaks database: Afghan War Diary, which contains over 75,000 secret US
RESOURCE
"CADRE has been working overtime completely revampingSWITCH: New Media Journal. If your not already familiar with the program, CADRE Laboratory for New Media is an interdisciplinary academic and research program dedicated to the experimental use of information technology and art at San Jose State University. The revamping of SWITCH
GAME ART
Link: Kent Sheeley Related: "DoD: A World War II Photo Essay" (2009); Grand Theft Photo (2007) Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of our 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 way
GAME ART
"This a short video that documents an interactive piece included in an installation called 'uncategorized' at Ironton Gallery in Denver, CO. The sensor is Kinect from Microsoft running a Unity driven game design." (Bryan Lester) Link: Bryan Lester Submitted by Matteo Bittanti