GAME ART
Jacky Connolly, Ariadne, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 50m13s.Last Summer, one of the most prominent video artists working with the video game aesthetics, Jacky Connolly, released her new monumental work, Ariadne. Like her previous projects, Ariadne was shot with/in The Sims. It was exhibited at Down and Ross
COLLABORATION
Total Refusal, How to Disappear, machinima, 2020, 20:06 A game video essay on the nature of war - both "real", that is, unmediated, and its remediation through ludic means - How to Disappear. Deserting Battlefield is a profound, moving, and enlightening meditation on topics ranging from the
ANALOG
Seamus Gallagher, falling in love with whatever loves me first, pigment print, 44” x 66”, 2017 I'm in love with Séamus Gallagher's a space and place all for us, a triptych featuring images created digitally using 3D modeling programs like Blender, as well as Unity, a
DOCUMENTARY
Jona Kleinlein, Hidden Conflicts, machinima, 23' 05", 2019 Jona Kleinlein is a multi-media artist working with film, video and installation living and working in Norway. He is interested in exploring the increasingly porous boundaries between filmmaking, video games, and simulation. Hidden Conflicts is Jona's new short,
FILM
Andy Hughes' monumental Plastic Scoop examines the relationship between virtual environments and ecological issues though the filter of GTA V. Created using the Rockstar Editor, Plastic Coop mixes images from the videogame with found footage and archival moving image. The video opens with the soothing atmospheres of an ocean
GAME ART
Intimacy's Mod is a series of mods by Kara Gut created with the aid of the “Immersive Lover’s Comfort” by flexcreator for Skyrim. By using this mod, the artist distorts the games' original narrative and replaces it with an in-game performance carried out by the Gut
3D ANIMATION
A delicious twist on the "paintings in video games" trope. Mark Fingerhut is an artist, a computer user, a hacker, a performer, a singer, a video-maker, a writer, a juggler, a gamer, and a friend. He worked with Ian Cheng and Peter Burr, among others. He graduated from
EVENT
SYMPOSIUM: Desertion from digital war zone A Symposium on October 24 2019, between 10:20 - 20:00 Art University Domgasse 1, Room Ex-Post Music, 4th floor Linz, Austria free entrance Exhibition: Friendly Fire October 22 - November 14 2019 MEMPHIS Artspace Lower Danube Lands 12, Linz, Austria, Opening: October
GAME ART
The latest work by Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf) is a 4-channel video installation that brings to light the intrinsic contradictions of video game environments, i.e. the designers' obsession to achieve photorealism and the Potemkin Village-like syndrome which informs their representational logic. Far from being
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A multimedia piece made by Big Pauper within a circuit bent Sega Dreamcast environment. Drew McIntyre (known as Big Pauper in some parts of the world) is a multimedia artist, toolmaker and sound designer based in Portland, OR. Drew’s own artwork engages with the mercurial moods of his own
3D ANIMATION
A fascinating take at simulation vs. representation, memory vs. concreteness. Surrogate Being is an interactive virtual environment exploring possibilities of affective relationships between humans and machines and mindful approaches in the computation process for their sustainable coevolution of human and technology. This work negotiates the discrepancy between memories and digital
GAME ART
A multimedia piece made by Big Pauper within a hacked Sega Saturn gaming environment. Drew McIntyre (known as Big Pauper in some parts of the world) is a multimedia artist, toolmaker and sound designer based in Portland, OR. Drew’s own artwork engages with the mercurial moods of his own