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Since 2012, I have been teaching a course titled GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland. Michele Hubacek's "Christ Killa: Transgressive Art in Gaming" (2012) was written specifically for this class, but I believe it
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Titled PLAY THE AESTHETICS, the latest issue of academic journal COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI (Social Communications, published by University of the Sacred Heart's imprint, Vita & Pensiero in Italy) features several contributions of Italian scholars focusing on the interplay between art and digital games. My essay - "Machinima As
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Now trending: Videogame criticism on contemporary art blogs. It makes perfect sense. In fact, I cannot think of a better place for game criticism. I am just surprised that it took so long. => Paul King on Gone Home & Half-Life, and, previously, Proteus. Good stuff. LINK: Bad at Sports
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A fantastic piece on Eddo Stern, one of the giants of Game Art, was published on September 10 on Artbound magazine (part of KCET). The author is Robert Nashak, who teaches in the Interactive Media & Games Division in the USC School of Cinematic Arts.Here's an excerpt:
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A new intringuing essay from scholar Thomas Apperley, "The body of the gamer: game art and gestural excess" was recently published on Digital Creativity. Sadly, the article is hidden behind a paywall. Or maybe not! Download Dc_apperley Abstract: " Where is the body of the gamer in
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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Abstract: "The videogame Portal is an algorithmic exploration of human struggle against algorithmic processes that have superseded their original intended purpose.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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Nana Asfour writes about Mark Tribe's photographic series Rare Earth on The New York Times, one of the most interesting game-inspired artworks of 2012. Here's an excerpt: Mark Tribe, Sawtooth Mountain, 2012LINK: "The Reality Behind Virtual War Zones" by Nana Asfour (The New York
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"Bringing together the insights of assemblage theory, pragmatist aesthetics, and the sociology of art, this paper examines the cultural legitimation of ‘artgames’ as a category of indie games with particularly high cultural status. Passage (PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, 2007) serves as a case study, demonstrating how a diverse range