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SHADOWS:ULTRA Digital video, color, sound, 9’ 30”, 2019 July 3 - July 16 2020 VRAL Introduced by Luca Miranda Shadows:ULTRA shows overlapping animal shadows within the Dunia game engine, a software fork of CryEngine designed by Kirmaan Aboobaker while working at Crytek. Thomas Hawranke filmed the individual images
ART GAME
Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn, still from The Endless Forest, online multiplayer game, 2005/2020-ongoing.bitforms gallery x Small Data Industries presents:The Endless Forest, Auriea Harvey & Michaël SamynStreaming online June 23–July 7, 2020bitforms.art/stream bitforms gallery is proud to present The Endless Forest by Auriea Harvey
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A new project by Alan Butler mixes Marx and video games starting tomorrow, June 20 2020, on Twitch . Think David Harvey does PlayStation. There will be 19 episodes, each with a duration of around 2 hours. Upon completion, the whole series will be available as a 40 hour stream. Get
3D ANIMATION
MONOMYTH: GAIDEN/RETURN Created by Petra Széman June 19 - July 2 2020 VRAL Introduced by Gemma Fantacci Monomyth: gaiden / Return (2019) is the third installment in the ongoing Monomyth: gaiden series (2018-). Structured around the trope of the hero’s journey, it investigates how real life might be experienced
GAME ART
Ian Williams uses a traditional medium, painting, to redefine and rethink the aesthetics of gaming. His work is the outcome of a complex process involving three-dimensional computer modelling and paint, screens and canvases. His process is simultaneously simple and complex: the artist extract elements from a video game and removes
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TV is generally crap. One notable exception is Franco-German killer kombo Arte.tv. After devoting an entire episode of The Art of Gaming to in-game photography, Tracks profiled two of the most groundbreaking artists working with/against video games: Austrian artist Leonhard Muellner (the outspoken member of Total Refusal collective)
COLLAGE
For the past 3 and a half years, Carlos Martorell has been scanning vegetation and terrain models around the world, from botanic gardens to backyards, beaches, natural spaces to create a special kind of collage with Unity 3D, possibly the most popular tool for game development. The outcome is Ecosystems,
3D ANIMATION
The MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL may be over, but machinima keeps growing and evolving pretty much everywhere. Curated by Andrew Michael Davis, La Filmoteca Española introduced a new program titled La imagen renacida, which "explora los profundos cambios en la cultura audiovisual del siglo XXI y el papel del cine
GAME ART
REGRESSION (TRILOGY) June 5 - 18 2020 Created by Jordy Veenstra VRAL Introduce by Matteo Bittanti Several cinematic productions of the 1920s and 1930s became known as city symphonies. Some, like The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) by Dziga Vertov or Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927) by
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Possibly the best renactment of the year. Akihiko Taniguchi is a Japanese New Media artist who also teaches at Tama Art University and Musashino Art University. He creates diverse works consisting mostly of installations, performances and video works using self-built devices and software. Recently he started making internet art and
3D ANIMATION
Jon Rafman, Remember Carthage, 2013 The MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL may be over, but machinima keeps growing and evolving pretty much everywhere. Curated by Andrew Michael Davis, La Filmoteca Española introduced a new program titled La imagen renacida, which "explora los profundos cambios en la cultura audiovisual del siglo XXI
GAME ART
COLL.EO, REASONABLE_3, machinima, digital, color, sound, 2020, 38" ...And just like that, the third installment of COLL.EO's ongoing series, REASONABLE, materializes online. LINK: COLL.EO