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10th International Games and Playful Media Festival from July 21 – 24, 2021. Award submissions are open now, until April 30, 2021. HYPER Birthday, A MAZE. / Berlin! Press release: One of the few things that are sure this year? A MAZE. / Berlin is celebrating its 10th birthday with a Hyper Hybrid
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Pioneers in Machinima: The Grassroots of Virtual Production by Tracy Gaynor Harwood (De Montfort University), Ben GrussiVernon Press, 2021This important new work focuses on the pioneers in machinima, considered to be the grassroots and beginnings of virtual production. Machinima’s impacts are identified by the community, supplemented by Harwood and
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In 2021, the Game Arts International Network organizes the The Game Arts International Assembly, a "stretched symposium for game art curators and game community organizers." In 2021, it is organizing a flotilla of events, including nine sessions spread over two months with 35 people participating as speakers and
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YuliyaKozhemyako aka Supr has just released a minimalist abstract game titled On a Clear Day, based on the eponymous graphic series of artist Agnes Martin. Here's a more detailed description: On a Clear Day is the name of one of Agnes Martin’s works where she first introduced
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Carina Erdmann, a researcher at LUCA, research unit 'Inter-Actions' in Brussels, is the catalyst behind this phenomenal series of online symposia: "This is an invitation to conspire. The series of online workshops conjures synergies between the fields of performance, LARP, game design and media theory. The common
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NOW PLAY THIS! A Festival of Experimental Game Design March 25-28 Online "This year, Now Play This explores the relationship between play, games and the climate crisis. Due to the pandemic, we are once again running a fully online festival. Join us for a four-day programme of games, workshops
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MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL MMXXI: FROM VIDEO GAMES TO VIDEO ART March 15-21 2021 Online event Milan, Italy An official event of the Milan Digital Week, the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL showcases audiovisual non-interactive works produced with video games otherwise known as machinima. This year, the retrospective will take place exclusively online
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Eddie Lohmeyer Unstable Aesthetics Game Engines and the Strangeness of Modding Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 Description: Throughout the 1990s, artists experimented with game engine technologies to disrupt our habitual relationships to video games. They hacked, glitched, and dismantled popular first-person shooters such as Doom (1993) and Quake (1996) to engage players
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OTOGARDEN is a musical game about free improvisation designed by Costantino Oliva. Players can explore their musicality in a Japanese garden atmosphere, control a mischievous kappa, a traditional yokai spirit, and feel the musical possibilities of your surroundings. The game was created for research purposes as a tool to demonstrate
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Participatory Worlds was launched in 2020 thanks to an effort by Bournemouth University in the UK and supported by Arts Council England. The project is led by José Blázquez. "This project investigates three creative practices (‘machinima’, in-game photography and gamics) performed by audience members, normally end-users, which make use
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Angela Washko Point of View February 18–April 25, 2021 STUK — House for Dance, Image & Sound Naamsestraat 96, 3000 Leuven, Belgium STUK.BE Curator: Karen Verschooren, STUK STUK is delighted to present the first European survey exhibition of American artist and interventionist Angela Washko (b. 1986). Angela Washko is
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REASONABLE_3 digital video (1920 x 1080), sound, color, 3’ 33”, 2020 (United States/Italy) Created by COLL.EO VRAL February 12 - February 25 2021 Introduced by Random Parts Volatile. Fiery. Flaming. Heated. In flames. Sizzling. Gleaming. Alight. Ignited. Automobile. Car. Wagon. Truck. Van. Law Enforcement. Siren. Horn. Warning.