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A Lament for Power: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy Tuesday 6 October 2020 2-7pm Art Exchange Art Exchange University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ United Kingdom The exhibition is open from Tuesday 6 October - Sat 14 November A Lament for Power is the outcome of a nine-
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ANIMAL CROSSING: ALL MINE digital video, color, sound, 7’ 05”, 2020 (United States) Created by Brent Watanabe VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Conspicuous consumption is the implicit goal of innumerable video games, but Animal Crossing: New Horizons is, by far, the most shameless celebration of capitalism. Released in March 2020,
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Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra has recently released Pixelation, an experimental machinima consisting of three Quake III fragmovies originally made in late 2010. As Veenstra explains, "All movies were created at the time to familiarize myself with the Q3MME mod and cinematic camera paths and not so much
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NVIDIA is introducing a new app called Omniverse Machinima which "enables gamers across the world to easily master the art of storytelling by using 3D objects, animated by NVIDIA AI technologies." Specifically, Through NVIDIA Omniverse, creators can import assets from supported games or most 3rd party asset libraries
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Landscape photographer Pete Rowbottom creates real-life photos inspired by Death Stranding''s incredible in-game photo mode. LINK : Pete Rowbottom (Thank you Kieran!)
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HOW TO FLY digital video, color, sound, 6’ 23”, 2020 (United Kingdom) Created by David Blandy How to Fly was originally presented by John Hansard Gallery in Southampton as part of the Digital Array programme supported by the Barker-Mill Foundation. VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Originally commissioned by John
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Colors Fade is a video clip created by Brazilian Estudio Bijari for the independent electronic trio Lumen Craft, an electronic pop trio from São Paulo, Brazil. Entirely filmed in virtual locations of Grand Theft Auto V, Colors Fade shows three different characters travelling through the landscapes of a dystopian future
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Press release: ARS ELECTRÓNICA UMSA: ARTE Y ROBÓTICA ART GAMES When: Friday September 03, 5 pm Argentina (UTC -3 Where: Online event Link to access the event zoom (Friday September 03): Free with mandatory registration: "We invite you to participate in the fourth talk by gen.BA, the autonomous
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The latest project by avantgarde game collective Outlands - i.e. Gabriel Helfenstein and Tristan Neu - is You Are Weak, "a game about community and change in a fractured world.", meant to be played in one sitting. The game is available for Windows. LINK : You Are Weak Follow Outlands
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EVEN ASTEROIDS ARE NOT ALONE digital video, color, sound, 17’, 2019 (Iceland) VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti In the vast and hostile world of New Eden, trust is not a given. How can one make friends in the depths of space? Even Asteroids Are Not Alone explores social relationships within
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A fascinating project by Victoria University of Wellington’s Senior Lecturer Miriam Ross and Helen Perkins (both from the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studie), AC Ulysses is an interactive machinima created with Ubisoft’s Story Creator mode for Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey meant as a remake of
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The fourth 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