GAME ART
"Critical Gameplay is a collection of strategically designed video games. Each game asks the question, what do common game mechanics teach us? The four games in the collection are designed to help reevaluate our perspective on gameplay experiences. Like Critical Cartography changes the way we perceive the world, critical
ART GAME
ART GAME
"The Design Studio I assignment asked first-year students to explore place, space, and time through the language of mapping and information architecture. My final work for “You Are Here” is a playful interface for users that combines the visual language and rules of play of Tetris with a
GAME ART
"During the Tekken Torture Tournament performance, 32 willing participants received bracing but non-lethal electrical shocks in correspondence to the injuries sustained by their onscreen avatars. Players wore shocking arm straps wired through a hardware/software hack of the world’s most popular fighting Playstation game TEKKEN 3."
MACHINIMA
Eddo Stern, Sheik Attack, Digital Video, TRT 00:16:45, 1999-2000 "Sheik Attack is a contemporary non/fiction horror film woven from pop nostalgia, computer war games, the sweat of virtual commandos, the blood of Sheiks and a mis-remembrance of a long lost Zionist Utopia. Sheik attack
PERFORMANCE
"When you play a video game you get to be a big burly superhero or a mighty warrior or a badass spaceship. You get to laugh at mortality and taunt temporality with your prowess. The prowess of your avatar contrasts the perceived cultural lameness of your real identity. You
GAME ART
"Crusade - a mechanical windmill desktop spins on its axis looping a posse of medieval avengers and a MIDI sample of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir". GodsEye is borrowed from the computer gaming term God's eye perspective which positions the player as a God/General/Wizard
MACHINIMA
"Une Région, mais pas Centrale (A Region, but not Central) is inspired by Michael Snow's seminal video art from 1970, La Région Centrale. In Snow's work a camera is mounted to a pre-programmed robotic rig which allows the camera to move around two axis
GAME ART
"Terra incognita is an imaginary virtual island that the spectator/actor, as a "Robinson Crusoë" , can explore by the means of an interactive card. This island that the shape and the relief take over the cut of the brain, shelter a reinvented flora and a fauna. This
ART GAME
Eddo Stern, Darkgame, computer game/hardware/software, 1 ft x 2ft x 1ft, 2007-2010 link: Eddo Stern related Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
TOOL
link: Katalabs live demo available here related: ArtSteps Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
VIDEO
"Second part of the Shocktrip videos starring Bernard Wesseling as the main character. I experimented with a film technique for this video that simulates the platform type games of the 90's (like Super Mario Bros). Set in a city landscape the avatar has to keep moving, picking