BOOK
CONCRETE PRESS has just released BORING POSTCARDS FROM ITALY by COLL.EO. Available in a limited edition of 99 c opies, th is hardcover book is fully illustrated and published in hardcover format. Below is the description, both in English and Italian. You can purchase a copy on Amazon and
ART GAME
IP Yuk-Yui reinvents a classic work of existentialism, Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus, a s an experimental video game which invites the player to rethink the meaning of action, free will, and human intentionality. This contemporary, interactive version consists of two related but autonomous versions: S for Sisyphus
CONCEPTUAL
A multi-channel video installation that examines the misogynistic gameplay of Cover Girl Strip Poker, a 1991 MS-DOS computer game, (Hohum)...it's gonna be a looong game deconstructs the crude embodiments of male desire which integrates the objectification of the female body with disfiguring early computerized graphics and interactivity.
CONCEPTUAL
Tully Arnot, Grass IRL 2015Straws, modified solar display stands, light, motionDimensions variable (originally 6x6x1m) "The work translates a hypercolour, mechanically swaying field of grass – which we might see in a video game or online – into a simple kinetic installation made from two readily available materials. Further, the work reflects
ART GAME
Anthony Montuori, Harbor Islands, video game, 2016 I cannot think of a game designer that has captured the zeitgeist better than Anthony Montuori. His new game, Harbor Islands, will be installed at the Harbor Islands Welcome Center on the Greenway, in Boston, Ma. Inspired by the arcade classic Asteroids, Harbor
CONCEPTUAL
Intriguing project by conceptual game photographer Robert What consisting of "396 lightly customized snapshots of popular cs:go maps outside regular official play boundaries": this project conceives the voids between surfaces (and or surface-voids) not only as a postmodernist critique of digital architectures, but as a means to
3D ANIMATION
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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Postcards from Italy is a new project by Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti aka COLL.EO. It looks like this: Postcards from Italy consists of a set of framed photographs of postcards racks found within the virtual world of Forza Horizon 2 (Microsoft, 2014) . Each photograph measures 4 by 6
3D ANIMATION
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
CONCEPTUAL
The most interesting artworks in the field of Game Art are often conceptual. An example is Tom Durley's I'd Rather Be Playing Tetris (2007), which sits under the umbrella of participatory art. In this piece, the audience was given the chance to either play a game