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"The Mexican Standoff removes the link between the persons thoughts and actions; people are directly thinking about what they are doing – creating a hyperreality. Two people use their minds via EEG headsets to fire their guns in a Mexican Standoff realised in an ultra-violent first person shooter (FPS). The
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"PlayLab aims to explore the context of games and video games as a space for creativity, experimentation, learning and reflection. Call for the presentation of proposals to be carried out within the collaborative production workshop that will take place in Madrid on January (21 to 24) and February (4
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In 2007, seven students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå, Sweden - Olof Broström, Carl-Erik Engqvist, John Huntington, Anders Johansson, Eskil Liepa, Ida Rödén and Per-Arne Sträng - created a collective known as "Dataspelsgruppen” (literally, the “Videogame group”). Their ambition was to investigate and use videogames as
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Archived video of the presentation by Julian Oliver during the CrossLab LunchEvent of 10 december 2009. (Thanks to Evolutie!)Link: CrossLab's BlipTv ChannelLink: Creative Machinery
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In July 1999, artist and scholar Anne-Marie Schleiner curated the exhibition “Cracking the Maze: Game Plug-ins and Patches as Hacker Art" at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. The exhibition featured both artists and game hackers and presented artistic modifications of commercial videogames. Ten years later, GameScenes
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Once Upon a Time in the West December 4 – 11, 2009 Nova Gorica (SI) – Gorizia (IT) Curator: Domenico Quaranta Organization: Kulturni dom Nova Gorica Official website: Pixxelpoint Kulturni Dom Nova Gorica (Slovenia) is proud to announce the 10th edition of the International New Media Art Festival Pixxelpoint, that will open
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Making Things, Breaking Things: Digital DIY Exhibition: Zero Gamer 25-28 Nov Zero Gamer presents games that play themselves, video documents of in-game performance, game engine experiments and challenging documentaries on gameplay. Lecture: Wednesday 25 November 7pm - Corrado Morgana Workshop: Sat 28 Nov 11.00-3.00 - Dorkbot, Bristol -
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"Games, a creative form “older than culture,” according to Johan Huizinga, have served humanity in such diverse ways as entertainment, education, exercise, conflict resolution, ritual and self-expression. But not until the 20th century did games and the play experiences they provide start to be perceived as an art form
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Nowadays, several artists use videogames for purposes that include political and artistic expression. Examples that come to mind are Gonzalo Frasca’s celebrated September 12th, a Flash-game about terrorism in the world post-911 or Escape from Woomera, a modification of Half-Life, about a refugee camp in Woomera, Australia… The list
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Tobias Bernstrup, Palle Torsson, "Museum Meltdown" (1996) In 1996, two Swedish art students created what is now considered the first example of an artistic modification of a videogame in Scandinavia, if not in the world. Palle Torsson and Tobias Bernstrup started their artistic career with a scandal and
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Garnet Hertz's OutRun (2009) Image courtesy of the artistFrom the Project Description page: "This project attempts to combine the real world and OutRun, an arcade driving game released by Sega in 1986. This project features the following components: Cabinet-Car: The car-shaped sit-down arcade cabinet of OutRun is
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Workspace Unlimited - Invitation Novembre 2009 PERSONNAGES VIRTUELS et effets de presence 6 & 7 Novembre 2009 - UQAM, Montreal. Theme: Personnages virtuels et effets de presence Direction: Louise Poissant et Renee Bourassa Les personnages virtuels médiatisent notre présence dans les mondes du cyberespace ainsi que dans les environnements interactifs