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Kent Sheely, Ready for Action, grid #1, 2013. WIRED magazine published a compelling profile of Game Artist Kent Sheely. Here's an excerpt: "Today, in-game photography is a well-explored gaming off-shoot. The latest installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise actually encourages players to take selfies. But in
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Lowtoy Festival #1 25-27/09/2014Festival Internacional de 8 Bit & DIY Electrònica de BarcelonaLocation: Fundació AAVC Hangar - Emilia Coranty 16 BarcelonaTime: 15:00 - midnightPrice: 7€ puerta/door - 5€ anticipada/advance"Lowtoy is glad to announce, the first 8 Bit & DIY Electronics Festival of Barcelona.
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I had the pleasure of having Mark Johnson in my GAMESCENES course at California College of the Arts in the Spring of 2014. This semester, Mark wrote a terrific essay on Pippin Barr titled "Art games About Art" which he has been kind enough to share with the
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I had the pleasure of having A.B. Young in my GAMESCENES course at California College of the Arts in the Spring of 2014. This semester, Young wrote a terrific essay on fandom and Game Art titled "Fanfiction as Critical Play" which she has been kind enough to
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DOUBLE SOLO SHOW: MARCO MENDENI & MARK VINCENT KALINKA OFF CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR BRUXELLES Avenue du Port 86C B-1000 Brussels April 24-28, 2014 Curated by Matteo Bittanti THECA Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland ON MARCO MENDENI'S CONCRETE WORKS "Many play videogames. Few play with videogames. Marco Mendeni belongs to
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GameScenes recommends: Is Modding a Dying Art? by David Shimomura, published on KillScreen on February 28, 2014. GoTo80 on the Full Screen Exhibition curated by Aram Bartholl: WORD/PLAY : a fantastic series of articles on the convergence between text and gaming. Curated by excellent Video Game Tourism website. Luis Wong
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In case you did not know, Douglas Coupland invented Minecraft, or so he tells edgy Italian contemporary art magazine Mousse (issue 42, February–March 2014): LINK : Douglas Coupland Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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GameScenes Recommends: Lana Polansky, "Static Electricity: On Photography in Videogames", Videogame Tourism, February 3, 2014. Isabelle Arvers, GamesReflexions exhibition: on games and reality, published on February 5, 2014 Nicholas O' Brien, "The Possibilities and Pitfalls of the Video Game Exhibition", Rhizome, February 4, 2014 =>