ACADEMIC COURSE
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
ART GAME
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
3D ANIMATION
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
BOOK
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
GAME
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
GAME
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
ART GAME
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
GAME ART
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.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Excellent essay on the practice of in-game photography by EuroThug4000. LINK : EuroThug4000
MAGAZINE
Essential piece on art, video games and photography by Gideon Jacobs on the February 2021 issue of ARTFORUM. A key passage: But it’s possible that a better approach to the issue removes technology from the equation entirely. Instead of Hershel, we might refer to the pragmatic definition offered by
3D ANIMATION
True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films A new online series on e-flux Video & Film, programmed by Lukas Brasiskis The series will include a live discussion with some of the participating artists and other guests (date to be announced). Online, various dates Part One | Simulations and (Hyper)Reality
3D ANIMATION
Dear Eidolon Digital video, color, sound, 5’ 58” (United States of America) Written, Filmed, Narrated, and Scored by Carson Lynn Made for the ArtCenter College of Design Graduate Fellowship - Fall 2020 Online exhibition ArtCenter College of Design 950 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena, CA 91105 Dear Eidolon is a machinima