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ARCHITECTURE WITH GAMES IN THE TITLE Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 18' (3 x 6'), 2020 (Croatia) Created by Mario Mu, 2020 VRAL November 27 - December 10 2020 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Architecture with Games in the Title focuses on the convergence between spatial memory
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Jordy Veenstra, Hyper Reality, 2020, color, sound, 16' 15" (The Netherlands) Artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra's latest project is a fascinating mix of ultra-modern and retro-future. Hyper Real is not only a homage to late Nineties online gaming but also a very contemporary critique of visual
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The Overkill Festival Opening: Friday November 27th 2020, 19:00 Festival: Friday November 27th - Sunday December 6th 2020 Time Schedule: www.theoverkill.nl The might collective Sickhouse - founded by Aike Lutkemuller and Marie Janin - is organizing The Overkill Festival, a smosgaboard of game-related content and events comprising
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CHEATIMERISM Digital video, color, suond, 14’ 55’’, 2020 (Italy) Created by Luca Miranda VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti By reconfiguring the spaces of Grand Theft Auto V, Cheatimerism investigates the political and economic implications of consumption and its side effects, including concrete waste, virtual surrogacy, and planned obsolescence. This machinima
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Storm and Stress is Carson Lynn's latest project created for Silicon Valet’s Lot Residency #07, which took place on their Instagram page on August 1st and 2nd, 2020. The main window is divided into nine sections, and each one containins a unique short machinima mini-clip. This game-video-within-a-game-video
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A fascinating series of video game art portraits of Austrian artists and musicians such as Winfried Ritsch (musician and artist), Guenter Meinhart (composer), Anita Leisz (artist), Ferdinand Schmalz (author and playwright) and more commissioned by Province of Styria (a state in the southeast of Austria) for the Landeskulturpreisgala made with/
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INFINITE GRAVEYARD digital video, color, sound, 666'“, 2020 (Russia) Created by Mikhail Maksimov VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Mikhail Maksimov first encountered videogames at the age of twelve. His first time was with Clive Townsend’s Saboteur! (1985) on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Subsequently, he fell in love with
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The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series at UC Berkeley presents Skawennati, "World Re-Building: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures" Thursday, November 5 | 5:00 — 6:30 PM | Online Skawennati will present the artwork and ideas of the Indigenously-determined research/creation networks
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Great video essay on game phot ography by eurothug4000, which quotes, among other things Eva and Franco Mattes's 13 Most Beautiful Avatarsand Leo Sang's Virtual Reality Photography project which was featured in the TRAVELOGUE exhibition in 2016. Also: check out the incredibly detailed The Last of
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Berkeley Center for New Media presents: ATC Lecture — Lawrence Lek, "The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL" Monday, October 26 | 6:30-8:00PM | Online Register for Zoom link hereOr stream via YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8hq6oU__viC_fDu2lhOe7wInterlaced with conspiracy theories and speculative
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The Garden of Earthly Delights is an online chatroom for the creatures living within the world of Age of Empires II created by SCRNPRNT, that is Neilson Koerner-Safrata (Virtual Virtual Reality, Dustnet, Irrational Exuberance among others) and his twin brother Milan (Heart, Puzzlegami, Alien Garden among others). Gloriously absurd, like
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FORWARD, UPWARD, IN ALL DIRECTIONS digital video (1980 x 1080), color, sound, 19’ 16”, 2018 (Ukraine) Created by fantastic little splash Introduced by Matteo Bittanti VRAL Both poetic and prosaic, Forward, upward, in all directions is a psychedelic trip inside VRChat, a free-to-play massively multiplayer online virtual reality environment created