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Images courtesy of ModDB"A deserted island... a lost man... memories of a fatal crash... a book written by a dying explorer. Dear Esther is a ghost story told using first-person gaming technologies. Rather than traditional gameplay, the focus here is on exploration, uncovering the mystery of the
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Images courtesy of the artist Anders Visti’s PONGdrian v1.0 is a game that mixes the videogame PONG with the art of Piet Mondrian. Two players can play against each other, and the game has four levels. In every level there is a painting by Piet Mondrian in the
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Piet Mondrian meets Pac-Man in the game Pac-Mondrian created by the group Price Budget Boys from Canada. The first version of Pac-Mondrian is from 2002 and is based on Piet Mondrian’s painting Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43). Mondrian was inspired by the city grid of Manhattan
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Jude Buffum is an illustrator and designer from Philadelphia. He graduated from the Tyler School of Art in 2001 with a BFA in Graphic Arts and Design. In the Spring of 2009 he created an installation at the Nerotitan Gallery in Berlin called “Ich Bin 8-bit installation”. With help
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Artist in Studio (1/3) from Antoinette J. Citizen on Vimeo [Pictures courtesy of the artist]Australian artist Antoinette J. Citizen created an art installation of an interactive Super Mario Brothers Level 1-1 Room with working question mark boxes and bricks that would make sounds from the game Link:
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Last June GameScenes wrote about Jose Olivares graduating work at Tisch School of Art, New York. “Ancient Pixel” was a merge of lo-resolution videogame graphics and Andean textile art into a multi-channel interactive video work. Mixing ancient carpets and 8-bit videogames is not a new idea in
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Workspace Unlimited, THEY WATCH (work in progress) from EMPAC @ Rensselaer on Vimeo. "Workspace Unlimited: They WatchThey Watch is an immersive art installation with virtual characters literally watching visitors. Several duplicates of the virtual characters – one man, one woman, and both portraits of the artists – surround and interact with visitors,
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Images courtesy of Pippa StalkerDeath plays a major theme in life, art and videogames. In “Telling Death” Pippa Stalker/Tshabalala has combined this elements into a new art project. It began in 2006 when she exhibited a series of photographs at The Parking Gallery in Johannesburg. The serie was entitled
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Pictures courtesy of Suzy Newbranch and ichimusai It has been called the world’s longest art exhibition. Stockholm subway was built in the fifties and in every one of the 91 stations you can find some form of art installations. The Swedish artist Lars Arrhenius made his contribution in 2008
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What: Space Invaders: Art in the Computer Game EnvironmentWhen: December 17 - February 21Where: FACT, Liverpool (UK)Space Invaders: Art in the Computer Game Environment is a group exhibition exploring the increasingly blurred boundaries between videogame spaces and real spaces. From the detailed, complex urban landscapes of Grand Theft Auto to
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New d/Lux/MediaArts Sydney, Australia, has produced a new touring exhibition called “Garden of Forking Paths”. A title adopted from Jorge Luis Borges short story from 1941. For Electrofringe 2009 d/Lux/MediaArts presents the premiere of a new touring exhibition, Garden of Forking Paths, a unique show which
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With “Q4U” the Chinese New Media Artist Feng Mengbo introduced Game Art to the international art scene at Documenta 11. His latest work is a videogame called Restart based on the “Long March: Game Over", a series of 42 oil paintings made in 1994, which links the Long March,