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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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The latest issue of Heterotopias (#4) focuses on the theme of landscape in virtual worlds, its contraction, simulation, and exploration. Below are the highlights: 004’s cover piece is on the forests of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which in this issue are shown in all their glory in an
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Watershed and the British Council seek two UK-based creative professionals to participate in a two-stage Playable City Tokyo Residency in June and September 2018. Building on the work of an ongoing Playable City Tokyo programme, the residency is an opportunity to collaboratively research and develop playful ideas at
DOCUMENTARY
Dominic Gagnon's Going South (2018) - the second episode of his ongoing series of documentaries on post-internet reality - features several sequences from Grand Theft Auto V, although from the trailer below it would be hard to believe. Going South was presented at the Vision du reel 2018 film