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The 2011 edition of SF Indiefest, a cinematic retrospective that celebrates the best independent productions from all over the world, features a series of fabulous docs and movies that readers of GameScenes cannot miss. Among the others: [All films are at the Roxie Cinema] Second Bodies, Sandra Danilovic, 2010, 46
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Thursday, January 20 · 7:00pm - 11:30pm Location Babycastles Arcade @ Showpaper 42nd Street Gallery217 East 42nd Street, New York, NY Created By Showpaper 42nd St Gallery, Sarah Brin, Zach Gage Exhibition opening party, All ages, free, $5 dollar donation welcome - Curated by Sarah Brin and Zach GagePerformances by
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" In conjunction with the Attract Mode videogame culture shop, Meat Bun T-shirt design collective and LA Game Space, we're proud to host Game Night, an event that takes place at GR2 every two months. Each evening will feature a different developer and its games in a relaxed,
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Images courtesy of Johnathan B of Things to do in LA See Jonathan's fabulous photo gallery of "Multiplayer" @ Gallery 1988 (January 15 - February 4, 2011, Los Angeles, California) here (Things to do in LA) related => Gallery 1988 Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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"How old is Super Mario and how long is a life in videogames? Mario Gerosa and Jennifer Grace-Dawson’s paper Chronology and Historicization in Virtual Worlds and Video Games begins with what seems to be an obvious statement: “Time in virtual worlds is not the same as in real
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Daniel Danger, Silent Hill, print, 2010 "my print for Gallery1988’s ‘multiplayer’ show is “I’m alone there now, in our special place, waiting for you.”, a tribute to the Silent Hill series. I played the first one a few years after it came out, 2002 perhaps, via a
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Feng Mengbo Long March: Restart (Installation shot) Photo: Matthew Septimus (source) link Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Todd Slater, The Overworld, 2010 (via OMG!Posters) Reminder: Gallery1988 (Venice, Los Angeles) is about to unleash its inaugural show, "Multiplayer," on January 15th. It will feature 30 artists, all creating limited edition screenprints inspired by classic video games. The show is curated by OMG!Posters. link: Gallery
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Robert Lendrum, Avatar, documentation of performance, 2010 "Avatar is a new media and performance-based work where the audience is invited to take complete control of their own performer via a video game remote control device. Live performers are transformed into robotic puppets that respond to their user's
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All images courtesy of the artist "“8 Beat Love” is a short performance by Ivan Franco and Lígia Teixeira, reflecting on the notion of videogame disembodiment, where the gamer is often projected through his/her avatar. This often leads to a sense of will and power that only the
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"Live performance by the German theatre/media arts group "Projekt A.R.I.E.L." (ARTificial Research In Electronical Live) in 2008 toying around on stage with the features of the FarCry SturmMod. Latter provides an environment in which the places and actions described by William Shakespeare
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""F**k You, Buddy" is a visual and dramatic fusion of “game theory” (a mathematical attempt to predict human behaviour) and the dramaturgical development in computer games over the last decade. From the totalitarian collectivism in games like “Lemmings” to the anarchistic individualism in