ACADEMIC COURSE
Press release: The WORLD AT PLAY summer school is a part of a Voluptas research project into the intersection between game design, architecture and ludic pedagogy. “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work
3D ANIMATION
Press release: The One Minutes Series of May/June is ‘The Fields of Algorithms’ and is curated by David Blandy. ‘The Fields of Algorithms’ is a mixtape of poetic machinima lasting exactly one minute. The 23 selected videos were sent in from Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United
ART GAME
LAN PARTY NOTES digital video (1280 x 720), sound, color, 10’ 20”, 2013 (United Kingdom) Created by Mateus Domingos VRAL Introduced by Riccardo Retez LAN Party was an installation originally created by Vanilla Galleries in collaboration with Arc-Vel and Dexter and Finbar Prior, at the Two Queens art gallery in
3D ANIMATION
Image: Keiken, Battle of Reality, 2021, Commissioned by Daata and The Bass Image: Bob-Bicknell Knight, We've been here before, 2021, Commissioned by Daata and The Bass We’ve Been Here Before, 2021 is a new CGI film by Bob Bicknell-Knight, concerning the boundaries between public and private space,
COLLABORATION
Alan Kwan and Allison Yang Jing recently completed the experimental game Forgetter in collaboration with DSL COLLECTION. In the game the player works for a tech company that cleans all the trauma or dark memories in dead artist brains, and then recycles and sells these artistic brains to parents who
ANIMATION
Dyson & Womack, public art curators, are working with the State of California to select artists and artworks to be included in the Digital Art Call for Entries for the Public Art CA collection. Public Art CA is a contemporary art collection commissioned for the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA)
ART GAME
Michael Samyn, Compassie, 2021 (screenshot) Artist, designer, and professor Michaël Samyn has just released Compassie, an artistic software program for tethered VR. Compassie is a virtual reality diorama with the theme of pietà. The player takes the place of the holy virgin holding the lifeless body of Christ. And she
3D ANIMATION
In this short machinima, Ewan Wilson examines the notion of asphyxia via Tomb Raider (1996). This work was originally featured in the second issue of video art magazine Emerge, As Wilson writes: Two of the most common symptoms of anxiety and stress are shortness of breath and feelings of suffocation.
3D ANIMATION
Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra continue his bold investigation/reinvention of Quake III Arena (id Software, 1999) with another machinima (1920 x 816) that redefines the very boundaries of the medium. With IGNIIITION, Veenstra portraits a 1-vs-1 'Tournament' style duel within Quake III Arena, representing the three
3D ANIMATION
DEAR EIDOLON digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 5’ 58”, 2020 (United States of America) Written, filmed, narrated, and scored by Carson Lynn April 2 - April 15 2021 VRAL Introduced by Luca Miranda In a place where players and avatars coexist in apparent harmony, noticing the constraints and
ANIMAL CROSSING NEW HORIZONS
Huidi Xiang, my playbench in the workground, 2021 Huidi Xiang's sculptures are based on the life-simulation game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a video game that achieved huge popularity during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Xiang' combines the idea of “personal paradise” the game promises with
CALL FOR ARTWORKS
The fifth edition of the MACHINIMA FILM FESTIVAL will once again take place at IULM University (Milan, Italy) during the Milano Digital Week, which celebrates the driving forces that are reshaping art, culture, and technology of Italy’s most vibrant city. Filmmakers and video artists engaged in the practice of