ART GAME
"Games, a creative form “older than culture,” according to Johan Huizinga, have served humanity in such diverse ways as entertainment, education, exercise, conflict resolution, ritual and self-expression. But not until the 20th century did games and the play experiences they provide start to be perceived as an art
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GAMERZ 05 festival Association M2F Créations presents the multimedia festival GAMERZ, in Aix-en-Provence, from November 26th until December 4th 2009. Festival opens on Friday November 27th, at 6.30 p.m. GAMERZ 05 tour: _Fondation Vasarely _Seconde Nature _L'Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-
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Nowadays, several artists use videogames for purposes that include political and artistic expression. Examples that come to mind are Gonzalo Frasca’s celebrated September 12th, a Flash-game about terrorism in the world post-911 or Escape from Woomera, a modification of Half-Life, about a refugee camp in Woomera,
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Tobias Bernstrup, Palle Torsson, "Museum Meltdown" (1996) In 1996, two Swedish art students created what is now considered the first example of an artistic modification of a videogame in Scandinavia, if not in the world. Palle Torsson and Tobias Bernstrup started their artistic career with a scandal and
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Gta-Mission, akvarell, 120x280cm. [Image courtesy of the artist] Finnish artist Petri Hytönen (1963-) spent one year in the virtual world of Grand Theft Auto (GTA). He enjoyed the freedom of movement in Rockstar Games' virtual world. Fascinated by the characters and narrative of the virtual metropolis, Petri learned
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Garnet Hertz's OutRun (2009) Image courtesy of the artistFrom the Project Description page: "This project attempts to combine the real world and OutRun, an arcade driving game released by Sega in 1986. This project features the following components: Cabinet-Car: The car-shaped sit-down arcade cabinet
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Output: 62.500 Materialized Pixels (2000) Virtual Fairytale (2003) Virtual Fairytale 2.0 (2007) [All images courtesy of the artist] If you visited the exhibition Alien Intelligence (2000), right at the entrance to the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, you could literally walk right over Lara Croft. The
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Workspace Unlimited - Invitation Novembre 2009 PERSONNAGES VIRTUELS et effets de presence 6 & 7 Novembre 2009 - UQAM, Montreal. Theme: Personnages virtuels et effets de presence Direction: Louise Poissant et Renee Bourassa Les personnages virtuels médiatisent notre présence dans les mondes du cyberespace ainsi que dans les environnements interactifs et expérientiels.
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ArsDoom is widely regarded as one of the first examples of artistic modifications of videogames. Created in 1995 by Orhan Kipcak and Reini Urban, ArsDoom was shown at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz the same year. Using the Doom II engine and Autodesk' AutoCAD software, Kipcak and Urban
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.tiff writes: Images courtesy of the artist Link: Eric Testroete [flickr gallery: HEAD]Related: Susy Oliveira's SculpturesRelated: Adri Wichert
CONTRIBUTION
" An avatar sits in a room, alone. The walls are charcoal gray, the floors ashen cypress plank. She sits before a screen, with people appearing on it, gesticulating, drawing pictures, and mumbling through the window. In return, the avatar, in this case, one without an operator, tries to respond.
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Central Park, 2009Final Quest, 2009, stamp marker and varnish on wood panel 350*300 mm Kid Snz,2008, wood block, 180*140*130 Composition of Big and Small Trees, 2008, digital print, 455*333 mm Final Quest Cube, 2009, stickers on Rubik's cube , 58*58*58 All images