GAME ART
Wow, this is just phenomenal: an early work by American artist, curator and scholar Copper Giloth connects video games to video art. [Incidentally, From Video Games to Video Art is also the subtitle of a recent anthology on machinima that I edited for Italian publisher Mimesis - I confess I
GAME ART
Zhang Yue, Welcome, 2017, single channel video and Pen on black-and-white photograph, Videos | 20 × 28.5 cm × 60, 108 Video files | 2017 Chinese artist Zhang Yue has been experimenting with video games for a long time. In his recent video installation Welcome (2017), Zhang plays the role of a watcher
AR
VIDEOGAMES: DESIGN/PLAY/DISRUPT The Victoria and Albert Museum London Curated by Marie Foulston 8 September 2018 - 24 February 2019 Advance tickets: £18. Tickets go on sale today. The Victoria and Albert Museum will host one of the most ambitious exhibitions about videogames, art, and design of the last
BOOK
GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this artworld. Our goal is to document and examine both the origins and evolution of a phenomenon that
GLITCH
A lapse in time set in Los Santos by São Paulo-based artist and DJ Màrcio Vermelho, aka VIDEO-SISTEMA. His work has been presented at several events and exhibitions in Brazil and elsewhere, including the multimedia festival LAÇO. LINK: Màrcio Vermelho
LECTURE
A terrific short lecture by Marilyn Roxie, given at the 10th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. Roxie is an experimental digital media artist working with video collage, photography, webcams, Second Life and more. She is also a recent graduate of San Francisco State University with a
ART GAME
Mexican artist Oscar Nodal (who was featured, among others in the 2016 GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY exhibition in Milan) is having his first show at the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. Titled Simulación Y Rutina, the show explores the relationship between games and reality, simulation and
GAME ART
From top to bottom:María Isabel Vargas, Floating Islands, acrylic on canvas.María Isabel Vargas, Clouds and flowers, acrylic on canvas.María Isabel Vargas, Mountains and trees, acrylic on canvas. For more than seven years, Colombian artist María Isabel Vargas painted video game landscapes, mostly taken from Nintendo's
GAME ART
Roy Ananda, Thin Walls Between Dimension, installation, 2018 Photograph: Saul SteedRoy Ananda’s massive sculptural tribute to Dungeons and Dragons represents the chasm between an imagined world and a real one. The work premiered at the Adelaide Biennial of Australian art. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Ananda is a graduate
EVENT
CLICK HERE TO REGISTERMILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL March 16th 2018 From 6.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. IULM Open Space (IULM 6) Via Carlo Bo 7 20143, Milano Free and open to the public, upon registrationmilanmachinimafestival.orgThe aesthetics and politics of video game cinema: IULM University hosts the
CONCEPTUAL
On The Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time was created by Shane Flores, a student enrolled in the New Mexico Highlands University Media Arts and Technology Program. It is a machinima “reboot” of Guy Debord’s seminal 1959 Situationist film of the same name
MACHINIMA
I'm speechless. LINK : Hugh Hancock