COLLABORATION
The Ghost Arcade is a collaborative exhibition project between Skot Deeming, a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, curator and scholar, whose work spans the spectrum of new media practice from broadcast media to computational art, experimental videogames, and game art; Dominique Pelletier, a multidisciplinary translation and media scholar, and the Museo del
MACHINIMA
Chris Howlett, Untitled Swarm, 2017. excerpt/preview only. Warning: stroboscopic, flashy colors. A new video piece by Australian artist Chris Howlett, Untitled Swarm, shows "different 3D models used as the generic game asset for representing the dual image of the player as either Terrorist or Rebel." The video
3D ANIMATION
Here's the ultimate total conversion. Graphic designer David Ledgerwood took Counter Strike: Global Offensive and turned it into a digital pinball game by using (virtual) water melons. How? I have turned [Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Ed.] into a physics based pinball arcade mini-game using melons as the ball. "
GAME
The upcoming racing game GT Sport for the Playstation 4 includes a powerful in-game photography tool, Scapes. As I wrote elsewhere, gamers don't play this kind of games to sublimate their death drive, but rather too take pictures. The good news is that Scapes looks like the Canon
GAME ART
We talked about Alan Butler's fascinating work Down & Out In Los Santos last May in a wide-ranging interview. Subtitled The Construct Moment, this new teaser, released by Les Rencontres D'Arles (The first International Festival of Photography in Arles, France), provides additional details about the ongoing/
ART GAME
Spanish (English below), press release5ta Edición Internacional de Game on! El Arte en Juego En diciembre vuelve una nueva edición de Game on! El arte en juego para continuar indagando en las relaciones entre arte, juego y tecnología. Luego de haber recorrido el CC Recoleta, el CCEBA, el CCEC, el
ART GAME
Games about painting are becoming the trend du jour. Consider, for example Palette Parade, where you get to meet Gustave Courbet, Vincent van Gogh, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, among others or the indie game Passepartout: The Starving Artist. Brian Cullen's "You Are Not A Banana: A walkthrough of
GAME ART
If you dig Game Art and love podcasts here's something you should download right now: the Guardian's Chips with Everything, hosted by the excellent Leigh Alexander. Start with these two episodes: Angela WashkoPippin Barr Truth is: every episode is unmissable.LINK: Chips with Everything
3D ANIMATION
Victor Morales has been working on an ambitious new project for VR platforms using the mighty Unreal Engine 4. The performer will be able to use an Oculus Rift with touch controllers to experiment with a surreal room, manipulating chairs, sofas, and other pieces of furniture. The first examples are
3D ANIMATION
Tom Richardson, Reconstruction 1865, Single channel video projection and custom projection apparatus, 3 min. 45 sec., Black and white, stereo sound with intertitles., 4K animation (downscaled for projection)., Black curtain, custom screen, structure and lens, 2017 For the past year, Tom Richardson, a British artist living in Vancouver, Canada has
3D ANIMATION
Tom Richardson, Rehearsal for a Synthetic Theatre, HD animation, stereo sound, 3 variations on a 13:35 min. loop, 2017 (excerpt)Rehearsal for a Synthetic Theatre is the title of one Tom Richardson's new projects. For the past year, the British artist living in Vancouver, Canada has been
EVENT
From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Soraya Murray, Assistant Professor in the Film & Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz critically explores blockbuster games like The Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops: The Line, Tomb Raider and Assassin’s Creed to show