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What happens when you crank up the Painstation to 11? You get War of the Currents, a one-a-kind "cabinet with custom-milled metal joysticks wired with real voltage, and a 1 on 1 fighting game featuring the masters of electricity." Electrocution has never been so much
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A new project by Ansh Patel, Trialogue is "(A)n inter-media game performance that transforms the process of game creation, playing and experiencing it into a playful tug-of-war of control, caught in a cultural and economic system which seeks to reinforce the status quo." Trialogue
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Peter Buczkowski, a designer from Bremen, Germany, investigates the relationship between work and play in his latest installation, Current Times, which he describes as an update to Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). A meditation of gamification and neoliberal notions of "efficiency", Current Times is about players being
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Dave Ball, I've Always Wanted to Drive Across America, 2016; (video documentation of) installation with playable 'Desert Bus' video game, accompanied by spoken-word soundtrack in which the artist describes from memory every overseas trip he has ever made. My comment is frankly redundant, but I&
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L'art dans le jeu video - September 2015 - March 2016Art Ludique-Le Musée - 34, quai d'Austerlitz, 75 013 Paris, France This is another "the art of videogames ( tm )" kind of exhibition (à la Smithsonian ) which focuses on the contributions by Gallic designers to the medium
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HTNM Lecture — Mary Flanagan, "Critical Play" March 17, 2016 | 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Mary Flanagan, Critical Play, TedXDartmouth, 2010 "Games are older than most contemporary media forms, and artists have been using them for centuries as a form of criticality
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A.MAZE 2016 April 20 - 22, Berlin, Germany Extra exhibition day: April 23 "For the fifth time, the International Independent Videogames Festival A MAZE. / Berlin, from APRIL 20 TO APRIL 23 2016 brings together international independent game developers, digital creatives and game enthusiasts in Berlin: a conference, an exhibition