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A new series of videos from Venezuelan-born, NY-based artist Victor Morales are uncanny, mesmerizing, and morbidly fascinating. They are all mildly disturbing, in a good way. Here's the incredible FigureFiguring, a dance scene sui generis which degenerates in a plastic-elastic copulation that defies the laws of physics. Below
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VECTOR, one of the most compelling, original, and daring Game Art festivals, returns with a vengeance with a killer program. Now in its fourth iteration, the Canadian event has a special focus on algorithmic and post-human subjects. Subtitled Autonomous Agents, the festival is "a participatory and community-oriented initiative dedicated
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Akihiko Taniguchi is an artist working and living in Japan. He teaches at Musashino Art Univ and Joshibi University of Art and Design. He creates installations, performances and video works using self-built devices and software. In recent years, he concentrates on net art work. and sometimes VJing. Main exhibitions include
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Hugo Arcier, Ghost City, 2016, installation view, Lux Scène Nationale Valence (c) Hugo ArcierIn Hugo Arcier's new installation, the architecture of Grand Theft Auto becomes a reflective and ruminative experience. Inspired by Lucrece's De rerum natura, Ghost City immerses the viewer in a phantasmatic urban environment,
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SCREENING: HARUN FAROCKI, PARALLEL I-IV (2012-2014) DATE & TIME: MAY 18, 2016, 6 - 8 PM PLACE: IULM 6, SALA DEI 146 , IULM UNIVERSITY FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC PLEASE RSVP (WRITE "FAROCKI SCREENING" IN THE SUBJECT LINE - LIMITED SEATING) ________________________________ IULM University is proud to present
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Lawrence Lek, Gravity's Folly, 2015Real-time architectural simulation; Three portrait full HD screens; GTX Gaming PC.Variable duration A new, mesmerizing installation by Lawrence Lek, Gravity's Folly is "a virtual world based on the tradition of the architectural folly: classical garden pavilions whose only purpose was
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A terrific work by Ian Cheng (b. 1984, Los Angeles) which appropriates videogame aesthetics to document the history of cognitive evolution, past and future. Described as a live simulation and story, Emissary in the Squat of Gods was presented by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy) between April 23 until
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Tabor Robak, Dog Park, two-channel video, self generative computer animation, 2015 A former graphic designer who used to design the billboards in Times Square, Tabor Robak has elevated videogame aesthetics into a new visual language that is, at once, proudly one-dimensional and shiny-slick. Dog Park remediates the computer screen saver
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In this terrific 30+ minute interview, artist Tabor Robak discusses his practice with the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art in New York director Simon Castets. Robak talks about hishis creative process and his work, which was featured in The St. Petersburg Paradox exhibition. Commissioned for this exhibition, A* illustrates the hypothetical
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Tabor Robak, Free-To-Play, 4-channel HD Video, custom software 1 hour, dimensions variable With Free-to-Play (all works 2013), Brooklyn-based artist Tabor Robak emulates Candy Crush Saga's visual aesthetics to create a one-hour installation celebrating distraction, visual stimuli, and multi-tasking. Mimicking interactivity, Free-to-Play shows overlapping columns of game-like icons, collapsing
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Marjan Moghaddam, David & Goliath Still Can’t Fight, 1080HD Single Channel CGI Animation with Music, 14 Minutes, 2014 50" X 30" Inch. 46" LED HD Monitor, Gilt Frame, Headphones, computer, Media Player, or computer, and SD Card. (excerpt)"Conceived as a wall hung and animated
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Chris Labrooy, Tokyo, digital photographs, 2015 I love Chris Labrooy's "auto elastic" series. The project, which began in 2014 with Auto Aerobics, has evolved into Tokyo, a plastic meditation on Japan's car culture. The new work features a digital sculpture made with a Honda