ART GAME
Eight years ago we shared on GameScenes Alan Kwan's groundbreaking project Bad Trip in which the artist connected a small camera to his glasses in order to develop a videogame about my virtual memories. It remains one of the most inventive project at the crossroads of technology, gaming,
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Machinima in quarantined times. SaveMe Oh is just one of the several virtual alter-egos created by Oscar Wagenmans, a Dutch theatre director and actor. An eclectic figure inside and outside the virtual space, Wagenmans began his career as an actor in 1983 performing with youth theatre groups, subsequently as
GAME ART
Eddie Lohmeyer, Scrolling Landscape in 34 NES Games #2, digital video/machinima, color, 8' 15", 2020 Eddie Lohmeyer's archeological approach to machinima is exemplified by his second installment on the congoing Scrolling Landscape series. A the artist writes: Scrolling Landscape in 34 NES Games #2 (2020)
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Here's an update on ARTSPEED, Akihiko Taniguchi's racing game featuring conceptual artworks competing on the art circuit (no, really). The game is looking increasingly polished and avantgarde. Alas, R.T: Mutt aka Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is not doing great and Umberto Boccioni's
COLLABORATION
Another formidable work by foci+loci, Bouncing Moon is an algorithmic music device built in LittleBigPlanet 3. Truly avantgarde. As the Brooklyn-based duo explains: The user trigger emission of a triangle in any of four rows- percussion, droplets, bass and piano- by pressing buttons on the controller. Each triangle
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An ironic take at deep existential concerns. Forty seconds shot with GTA V's Rockstar Editor. Antonio M. Abate is filmmaker and film critic based in Milan, Italy. LINK: Antonio M. Abate
CALL FOR ARTWORKS
Open Call: The Fields of Algorithms by David Blandy For poetic machinima lasting exactly one minute. Send in your One Minute video! Deadline 1 September 2020 theoneminutes.org/participate David Blandy is an artist working with pop-cultural spaces such as video games, tabletop RPGs and Twitch streams. He lives
BOOK
Well Played Journal Special Issue Cfp: Playable Theatre Edited by Celia Pearce & Nick Fortugno The rising popularity of immersive theatre works such as Third Rail’s Then She Fell and Punch Drunk’s Sleep No More, has given rise to new hybrid forms of live entertainment that combine aspects
ANIMATION
The 2020 edition of the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL will be followed by the release of a printed bilingual (English and Italian) publication later this year featuring critical contributions on the state of machinima. The book/catalog will be edited by Matteo Bittanti and Gemma Fantacci. Contributors do not necessarily need
ANIMATION
We are delighted to announce the full program of the 2020 MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL. The event takes place between March 09-13 2020 at IULM University in two separate locations: the Contemporary Exhibition Hall and the Sala dei 146, both located in the IULM Open Space building. Both venues are
ART GAME
When it comes to bold, daring, unique, and unclassifiable game-based experiences, there's simply nothing comparable to the visionary, WTF stuff that the students of Eddo Stern's UCLA GameLab create. Point in case: check out the trailer for Elsie Wang's Game Lab Fellow Intimacy.
3D ANIMATION
A collaborative project between artists Carson Lynn and Grace Grothau, Parched Earth examines the ecological tensions embedded in contemporary video games. As Carson writes: Both artists have dealt with global warming in their respective practices, so they sought out to create a speculative fiction film depicting a dystopian future where