GAME ART
Curry's phenomenal paintings are clearly inspired by the vectors, shapes, trajectories and colors of shooter video games. Above is a small sample of his impressive oeuvre. I'm clearly thinking of modern classics like Geometry Wars here: Nicolas Boillot, Geometry Wars, 2012Shown on the DVD dead drop
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Tomasz Wlazlak is a Polish multimedia artist whose work features video game imagery, motifs, and themes. His aesthetic is strongly influenced by 8-bit graphics. One of his latest works, Superheroes (2016), mixes sculptural elements like arcade game cabinets with interactive games inspired by classic coin-ops about historical figures like Sai
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Interesting Decisions (2016) is a "neon-packed walking-simulator," and it is meant as an interactive commentary on the "homogenizing effects of technology" and "the new trends of video-game voyeurism" (Source). In 2016, Hutchinson performed the game live at the 2016 Kyma International Sound Symposium. In
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I love the self-reflexivity of Nolan's new project, Arcade Operator, "an experimental meta game that explores the interface as defined by the context of the user."As Nolan writes, the "project uses the arcade videogame interface as a medium through which to examine its own
EVENT
Nostalgia Art: Video Games of the 1980s-1990s Curated by Alexandria Hodgkins The Living Gallery Outpost 246 E4 Street New York, New York 10009 From August 22, 2017 The group show “Nostalgia Art: Video Games of the 1980s-1990s,” opens August 22 at The Living Gallery Outpost in Bushwick, New York. Curated
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
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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. "
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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
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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/
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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
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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