CONCEPTUAL
A multi-channel video installation that examines the misogynistic gameplay of Cover Girl Strip Poker, a 1991 MS-DOS computer game, (Hohum)...it's gonna be a looong game deconstructs the crude embodiments of male desire which integrates the objectification of the female body with disfiguring early computerized graphics and interactivity.
ESSAY
This is phenomenal. In the 1989 adult-oriented computer series, Leisure Suit Larry wanders the jungle of a colonized village searching for love, which he finds, after a multitude of failed romantic interactions, with Passionate Patti, a perfect and unattainable woman. In an act of cathexis, Larry's energies concentrate
GAME ART
Kent Sheely's latest project mixes reality and virtual reality: this machinima features a conversation with John Draper aka Captain Crunch, a pi oneer of phone phreaking" which paved the road for modern-day computer hacking. The video was show from inside a payphone in the recently released game
GAME ART
Kasem Kydd is a visual artist born in Queens, New York. This is his first machinima, developed with 2K Sports' popular basketball game series. He attended the Cambridge School of Weston and is now enrolled in the Fine Art Program (BFA) at Carnegie Mellon University. Play The Game Before
machinima
Four quadrants action! CCTV-like aesthetics. A visual meditation on "the repetitive nature of video game mechanics" (BBK). "The work that I’m currently producing looks at a lot of aspects of what life simulation games actually do, putting you in the position of a God-like figure, all
AR
Hado is both an augmented reality game and a virtual reality game developed by Japanese startup Meleap that transforms the mystical, new age concept of hado (a free-form energy, popularized by Masaru Emoto) into a game that evokes Dragonball-like fireball shots and Street Fighter combat. The equipment needed is conspicuous.
ARCHITECTURE
Virtual flaneur Rob H. Dylan aka Robert What continues his exploration of mundane corporate space in the game INFRA. A mix between performance and architectural critique, this is in-game photography documentation at its best. It also indicates a possible way for critics, artists and game developers to engage in a
3D ANIMATION
British artist Sophie Rogers graduated from Kingston University after completing a degree in Fine Art. A video based artist whose bright, hyper-saturated videos explore manufactured virtual spaces like those evoked in a fairytale or videogames, Rogers creates a world where digital culture is both personified and mocked. She lives and
3D ANIMATION
“An experimental animation using a game engine to forecast a future where our coastal environments fall into the sand as global warming seeps away the land. Creating digital art is often an exercise in finding new methods for using software." (Jason Nelson) Beautiful. It reminds me of Sheldon Brown&
GAME ART
Kent Sheely's ongoing series gets even more Beckettian with episode 12, set in the world of Mafia 2. LINK : Kent Sheely
GAME ART
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 discuss both the origins and evolution of a phenomenon that
3D ANIMATION
Full program here! "Le festival international des Arts Multimédia GAMERZ revient à Aix-en-Provence du 4 au 13 novembre 2016 et propose un parcours d’expositions, entièrement gratuit, pensé comme un espace de liberté, de réflexion et de jeu autour de créations post-modernes. Axé sur les pratiques numériques dans la