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Image: Portal, Valve, 2007 Abstract: "The videogame Portal is an algorithmic exploration of human struggle against algorithmic processes that have superseded their original intended purpose. The game explores the search for freedom from such computational processes. The freedom presumed in the portal gun - which allows access where there
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In 2010, Turbulence.org commissioned Scott Kildall a project entitled Playing Duchamp, "A computer program to play chess as if it were Marcel Duchamp". Kildall has now shared a video the project, which was originally distribuited online. As he writes, " There is no physical component, though I
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FIRST AMENDMENT GALLERY 1000 HOWARD STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103 GAME ON will be opening March 22nd, 2013, from 6:30-9:30pm, featuring graffiti art, street art, traditional paintings, drawings, custom vinyl toys and more from the following artists: * Vogue * Jesse Hernandez * Frank Kozik * Monty Guy * Robert Bowen * Sam Rodriguez
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Oakland-based artist and professor Nick Lally created "Bikes Inavde Space" in 2002 as part of a collaboration with Kyle McKinley. The game was presented at the 2011 Maker Faire in San Mateo, May 21-22 and it is simply brilliant. In 2010, Lally hacked Taito's classic arcade
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"PlayThings is a symposium about structures of play, and the ways in which design can enable or resist those structures. What does it mean to play? How meaningful is the distinction between toy and game? etc. 6 East 16th St, 12th flr in NYC (near Union Square) February 23rd
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C’est La Videogame: An Exhibition of Life as a Play Experience Curated by Andy Sebela, NYU Game Center Librarian Thursday, February 28th NYU Game Center, 721 Broadway, 9th Floor 7:00pm – 10:00pm "When I was much younger, I received a Tamagotchi as an Easter gift. I lifted
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After executing Jeff Koons, the Minneapolis-based artist Hunter Jonakin has kept himself extremely busy. His new project reconciles videogames and psychogeography. The viewer of "Can You Hear Me Now? You'll Never Hear Me Again or Modern Flaneur: Extreme Wanderlust" (2013) can "Wander fifty square blocks
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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 fascinating artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the
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Christopher Flower is a Montreal-based artist. His multi-disciplinary art practice draws from a variety of sources: conceptual art, illusionism, do-it-yourself invention, and Wikipedia. Between 2007 and 2008, Flower created a series of playful installation: Streetari (2007), a two-channel video installation in the form of a ‘kinetic analog game’ which he
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Arcades are dead therefore they are cool again. In fact, all dead media are alive and kicking, in a zombie-like state. As Mashall McLuhan suggests, we live in the age of perpetual/pervasive revivals. Take the First Friday's Artcade initiative which resuscitated 30 arcade cabinets for a massive
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Piet Mondrian is especially loved by artists using games as a means of expression and source of inspiration. Consider, for instance, Tembac, Coll.eo, Zephyru Zapedzki and Budget Boys , just to name a few. Now, Portuguese artist Ana Carina Figueiredo, an MFA student in Technology and Digital Art at the
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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 fascinating artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the