3D ANIMATION
TANK is an animated short film made by Stu Maschwitz inspired by classic vector games of the 1980s, like Atari's Battlezone. The video, which required more than 18 months from conception to production, is now available on Red Giant's site. Maschwitz also produced a terrific making-of-video,
3D ANIMATION
In Beyond The Mind, Dupuy Benjamin's latest machinima, a policeman discovers a strange place and makes an unexpected encounter that will bring him to overcome his greatest fears.Dupuy Benjamin received a Master of Science in Computer Science at the Faculty of Toulouse, France and today mainly works
EVENT
FOCI + LOCI TOPOS MAY 30 2018 Aula seminari Università IULM (IULM 1) Via Carlo Bo, 1 20143 Milan AN OFFICIAL EVENT OF GAME TALKS 2018, CURATED BY THE M.A. IN GAME DESIGN AT IULM UNIVERSITY Topos is a long-term WIP and a game art performance combining a two-channel video
ART GAME
This is pretty wild. Hannah Epstein and Kevin Brophy are deploying the beta of their new project Newest Art Game *Hot*Girls*Only. Now, Epstein and Brophy are recent MFA grads from Carnegie Mellon and students of international troublemaker Paolo Pedercini aka Molleindustria. Specifically: Hannah Epstein (AKA hanski) is a
ARCHITECTURE
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, a game urbanist, writer, and designer with a Ph.D in urban planning and geography with significant experience in game design (e.g. Seed MMO, The Sinking City), is collaborating with visual artist Maria Kallikaki to create a comprehensive encyclopedia of video game cities: Virtual Cities: An Atlas
GAME ART
Polixeni Papapetrou is a photographic artist who explores the relationship between history, contemporary culture, identity and being. Since 2002, she has been exploring the cultural positioning of childhood. Creating fantastical worlds that feature her children, transformed with masks and costumes and set against both real and imagined backdrops, the characters
GAME ART
Akihiko Taniguchi goes meta in this beta. LINK : Akihiko Taniguchi
GAME ART
Petri Levälahti aka Berduu works at EA DICE in Stockholm. He's also an accomplished game photographer: his flickr stream is a visual triumph ("video game tourism, snapping shots as mementos", he told EA). Like Duncan Harris, Berduu pursues an aestheticized digital photorealism that recalls Jean Baudrillard&
DRAWING
Lorna Ruth Galloway, Globe, La Puerta, Los Santos, 2016, Charcoal Screen print, 18 x 24Several artists have reproduced Ed Ruscha's seminal Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963) with video games, including Irish artist Alan Butler. Most of them used game-photography as their medium of choice. Miami-based artist Lorna Ruth Galloway,
CONCEPTUAL
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
ART GAME
Remediating Gus Van San’s eponymous movie Gerry (2002), Edwin Lo aka Auditory Scenes's Gerry (2016), a student of Ip Yuk Yiu, re-appropriates the original cinematic experience as a lonely journey in a virtual desert at night. Devoid of light, the work transforms the film narrative as purely
CONCEPTUAL
foci + loci's new project (in progress) is titled Ways Of Sitting and refers to interactive, virtual objects, modeled after Marcel Duchamp's readymades. As Tamara and Chris explain, The conceptual import of these art historical objects sitting in a gallery already deny any affordance usually associated with