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"Invisible Playground is a collective of six artists, designers and scholars who develop site-specific, transmedial games. The group has already been active at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, organising the festival “You Are GO!” in 2011. The architecture of HAU1 forms the foundation for their new collaborative work with the
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Artist Diego Leclery's contribution to the 2014 Whitney Biennial is a playful performance. The artist sits outside of the Whitney Museum, he plays Sid Meier's Civilization for severn hours a day, all week long, until May 25. The artist told Animal that Me Playing Civilization is
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Spanish artist Entter (nee Raúl Berrueco, 1977) will present his new series of wall prints at a Pixelart show in Barcelona at the end of this month. It is spin-off of his new project The Church of Whatever, deevloped with HISS, a bleep-techno producer from Treviso, Italy. B. You can
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Harun Farocki's Parallel Thaddeus Ropac, Paris January 15 – February 15, 2014 From the press release: "Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents its fourth solo exhibition by Harun Farocki (b 1944), video artist and essay filmmaker living in Berlin. In 2007, Harun Farocki, whose work has had a decisive influence
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NYU Game Center Lecture Series presents Clara Fernandez Vara The Art of World Building Thursday, March 6th, 7PM 2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor This sounds like a terrific talk. Free and open to the public. Additional details here. LINK : NYU GAME CENTER Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
"The Blank Arcade Understanding design as research, the DIGRA 2014 committee invites submissions of games that fill in the blanks. Games should ostensibly fill in the blanks of design or ludic experience, offering new game play experiences, highlighting spaces that are relatively uninhabited by other playful experiences or that
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Victor Morales' upcoming show at the Dixon Place in New York City on February 17, 2014 is titled "Electric Boogaloo Blues - the decay comes before the blues***". Morales describes it as "rough puppeteering using gamepad and ipad mashed with sound reactive shaders". Unmissable. LINK
ART GAME
"A MAZE. / Berlin is an international platform for independent games that invites professionals and creatives from various fields to exchange their knowledge and visions, presenting their projects, playing, making contacts to collaborate on future projects. You can expect two days of inspiration, skill, celebration and play. " (A MAZE.
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The mighty IndieGames blog has recently announced that the Game Developers Conference 2014 organizers have selected fourteen teams for the debut of ALT.CTRL.GDC, "an on-site exhibit of alternative control schemes and interactions, including the Oculus Rift and AKAI LPD8 paired Please Don't, Spacedog!, caterpillar sim
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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 =>
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By far, one of the most exciting events of early 2014. Taking place at the House of Electronic Arts Basel, Art & Arcade is a new show curated by Alain Bieber featuring "seven artistic arcade-machines from all over the world (Painstation, PentaPong, The Machine, Radical ATM, Tesla Arcade, Cage
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The first major Game Art event of 2014. Joseph Delappe's solo show at the Fresno Art Museum from January 24 to April 27, 2014. A killer retrospective featuring sixteen artworks by DeLappe, who is also a Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno