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French curator and critic Isabelle Arvers is organizing a two-day workshop about machinima to teenagers at the upcoming Game and Art Festival PLAY 14 in Hamburg, Germany. LINK : Machinima Workshop at PLAY 14 Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (via Isabelle Arvers)
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Another killer No Quarter Exhibition organized by the NYU Game Center. The fifth in the series features four new games from established and emerging independent game developers and will be hosted at the new Waka Waka space in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. The games are Dog Park by
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"Taking place in Braamfontein, A MAZE. / Johannesburg 2014 is set to become one of the hottest spots for games and playful media in Africa. Festival director and A MAZE. founder Thorsten S. Wiedemann says the A MAZE. 2014 programme is jam packed: “We are excited to bring together the
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Free entry! Mechanics Manifesto! What else can you ask for? Here's the 2014 event description: "gameZfestival is a festival for game design and games. The initial Festival was all about game mechanics. This year's dominant topic is "play together". The first video games
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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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We lost one of the most eclectic artists of the 20th Century, German filmmaker, philosopher, and videogamer Harun Farocki. His contributions to Game Art were outstanding. I would like to remember him with Parallel (2012), a 17-minute video essay on the status of computer-animated images, and Serious Games (2009), a
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Curated by Malcolm Levy, artist and curator, and Kimberly Voll, game designer and Isabelle Arvers, curator Evolution of Gaming is a retrogaming exhibition that will take place at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, Canada between August 1-10 2014. Specifically, Evolution represents the history of gaming from its roots
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GAMERZ, one of the most important events dedicated to Game Art returns this Fall in Aix-en-Provence, France. Above is a video-recap of the previous edition, which features music from Postcoïtum. Below is a selection of artworks by Isabelle Arvers in the Machinglitch section. As always, GAMERZ delivers the very best.
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Another interesting event about the future of the game medium and its artistic implications, ramifications, and subversions takes place at the iam8bit gallery in Los Angeles, from June 10 until the 22nd. The gallery is located on 2147 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Full details below: Industry Luminaries
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Game Over June 7 – June 18th, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7, 6:30-10 PM GR2 GiantRobot, 2062 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90025 Giant Robot's new Game Art show, GAME OVER. Art Inspired by Games. -, features an impressive number of artists working with videogames: Aaron Brown,
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On January 18, 2014, scholar, curator and critic Skot Deeming discussed the practice of curating games and game based artworks at the Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, a nonprofit Artist-Run Centre dedicated to independent video, audio and multimedia production, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as part
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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