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ANIMAL CROSSING: ALL MINE digital video, color, sound, 7’ 05”, 2020 (United States) Created by Brent Watanabe VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Conspicuous consumption is the implicit goal of innumerable video games, but Animal Crossing: New Horizons is, by far, the most shameless celebration of capitalism. Released in March 2020,
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Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra has recently released Pixelation, an experimental machinima consisting of three Quake III fragmovies originally made in late 2010. As Veenstra explains, "All movies were created at the time to familiarize myself with the Q3MME mod and cinematic camera paths and not so much
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NVIDIA is introducing a new app called Omniverse Machinima which "enables gamers across the world to easily master the art of storytelling by using 3D objects, animated by NVIDIA AI technologies." Specifically, Through NVIDIA Omniverse, creators can import assets from supported games or most 3rd party asset libraries
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HOW TO FLY digital video, color, sound, 6’ 23”, 2020 (United Kingdom) Created by David Blandy How to Fly was originally presented by John Hansard Gallery in Southampton as part of the Digital Array programme supported by the Barker-Mill Foundation. VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Originally commissioned by John Hansard
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Colors Fade is a video clip created by Brazilian Estudio Bijari for the independent electronic trio Lumen Craft, an electronic pop trio from São Paulo, Brazil. Entirely filmed in virtual locations of Grand Theft Auto V, Colors Fade shows three different characters travelling through the landscapes of a dystopian future
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EVEN ASTEROIDS ARE NOT ALONE digital video, color, sound, 17’, 2019 (Iceland) VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti In the vast and hostile world of New Eden, trust is not a given. How can one make friends in the depths of space? Even Asteroids Are Not Alone explores social relationships within
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The fourth edition of the MACHINIMA FILM FESTIVAL will once again take place at IULM University (Milan, Italy) during the Milano Digital Week, which celebrates the driving forces that are reshaping art, culture, and technology of Italy’s most vibrant city. Filmmakers and video artists engaged in the practice of
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THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW Digital video, color, sound, 7’ 01”, 2020 July 17 - July 30 2020 Introduced by Luca Miranda Things are different now (2020) is both a variation of The Soft Crash (2020 – ongoing) and a complementary, consequential conversation with Brenton Alexander Smith’s other works I Feel
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Kim Heecheon, Sleigh Ride Chill, single channel video, 17' 27", 2016 In the 2016 single channel video Sleigh Ride Chill, Kim Heecheon combines three different aesthetics and themes a live-streaming session of a video game play, an online suicide club and a cautionary tale of a leaked sex
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MONOMYTH: GAIDEN/RETURN Created by Petra Széman June 19 - July 2 2020 VRAL Introduced by Gemma Fantacci Monomyth: gaiden / Return (2019) is the third installment in the ongoing Monomyth: gaiden series (2018-). Structured around the trope of the hero’s journey, it investigates how real life might be experienced
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The MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL may be over, but machinima keeps growing and evolving pretty much everywhere. Curated by Andrew Michael Davis, La Filmoteca Española introduced a new program titled La imagen renacida, which "explora los profundos cambios en la cultura audiovisual del siglo XXI y el papel del cine
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Possibly the best renactment of the year. Akihiko Taniguchi is a Japanese New Media artist who also teaches at Tama Art University and Musashino Art University. He creates diverse works consisting mostly of installations, performances and video works using self-built devices and software. Recently he started making internet art and