GAME
Hugo Montembeault has just started a new postdoctoral game design research-creation project at the Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) laboratory of Concordia University, Canada, funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et Culture (FRQSC). Montembeault's project is entitled Bug Hunter. Mapping Glitches Trajectories in Game
GAME ART
FEATHERFALL Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 10’ 21”, 2019 (Austria) Created by Total Refusal VRAL January 29 - February 11 2021 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Originally conceived as a video installation, Featherfall is presented on VRAL as a single channel machinima. Adopting the format of the video essay,
COLLABORATION
EVERYDAY DAYLIGHT The Hyperreal Normality of Video Games Interactive in-game lecture performance von Total Refusal & Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis January 14 2021 at 7PM Watch it on Twitch Together with Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, Total Refusal does art in video games, and this time they explore the city of Los Santos
3D ANIMATION
MER ROSE CLAIRE Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 17’ 39”, 2020 (France) Created by Isabelle Arvers, 2020 Introduced by Gemma Fantacci Mer Rose Claire is part of Arvers’ ongoing abstract machinima series La Mer (2016-) which depicts shapes and abstract landscapes created by the Moviestorm game engine. Evocative
GAME ART
Milan based photographer Federica Sasso documents the relationship between gaming, self- representation and body language. Federica Sasso is a photographer whose work gives an intimate look to themes related with adolescence and femininity. She attended the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia before being recipient of a one-year scholarship for an artistic
ART GAME
Jacolby Satterwhite, En Plen Air Vassalage, 2015 "Jacolby Satterwhite’s Dawn will be a multi-layered exploratory video game that begins in a physical exhibition of objects, expands to digitally interactive geolocations across physical sites in Cleveland, and will ultimately be universally accessible from any location via the internet. Created
3D ANIMATION
ZO Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 7’ 21”, 2017 (United Kingdom) Created by Bob Bicknell-Knight, 2017 VRAL December 31 2020 - January 14 2021 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti An artist and an internet bot called Zo converse on the fictional social media app Kik. Their exchange is punctuated
EVENT
Player of Beings December 12, 2020–March 28, 2021 Curator: Qiu Zhijie, Chen Baoyang Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum No.436 East Yonghe Road, Jing'an District 200072 Shanghai China Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm T +86 21 5690 0009 info@mcam.io mcam.io press release Human beings
3D ANIMATION
MY OWN LANDSCAPES Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 18, 2020 (France) Created by Antoine Chapon, 2020 VRAL December 11 - December 24 2020 Introduced by Luca Miranda Warfare is being gamified. The American army has been recruiting soldiers through video games since the early zeroes: America’s Army
3D ANIMATION
UNREAL CITY An exhibition curated by Acute Art and Dazed Media Tuesday 8th December 2020 - Tuesday 5th January 2021 London Unreal City is London’s biggest public festival of AR art which features 36 sculptures arranged as a walking tour along the River Thames Organised by Acute Art and
3D ANIMATION
Sun Araw, Theo Triantafyllidis, Velocity Holomatrix Warp 7, 2020, digital stills (courtesy of the artists) Velocity Holomatrix Warp 7 is an hour long interactive experience created by experimental musician Sun Araw and digital artist Theo Triantafyllidis which debuted on November 25 2020, featuring a soundtrack by Sun Araw & Tomo
ESSAY
A phenomenal talk (cum transcript) by Paolo Pedercini aka Molleindustria about Apple's decision to kill Flash (spoiler: platform capitalism). Here's an excerpt: LINK: Paolo Pedercini's Gone in a flash