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ZO Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 7’ 21”, 2017 (United Kingdom) Created by Bob Bicknell-Knight, 2017 VRAL December 31 2020 - January 14 2021 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti An artist and an internet bot called Zo converse on the fictional social media app Kik. Their exchange is punctuated
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Player of Beings December 12, 2020–March 28, 2021 Curator: Qiu Zhijie, Chen Baoyang Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum No.436 East Yonghe Road, Jing'an District 200072 Shanghai China Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm T +86 21 5690 0009 info@mcam.io mcam.io press release Human beings
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MY OWN LANDSCAPES Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 18, 2020 (France) Created by Antoine Chapon, 2020 VRAL December 11 - December 24 2020 Introduced by Luca Miranda Warfare is being gamified. The American army has been recruiting soldiers through video games since the early zeroes: America’s Army
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UNREAL CITY An exhibition curated by Acute Art and Dazed Media Tuesday 8th December 2020 - Tuesday 5th January 2021 London Unreal City is London’s biggest public festival of AR art which features 36 sculptures arranged as a walking tour along the River Thames Organised by Acute Art and
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Sun Araw, Theo Triantafyllidis, Velocity Holomatrix Warp 7, 2020, digital stills (courtesy of the artists) Velocity Holomatrix Warp 7 is an hour long interactive experience created by experimental musician Sun Araw and digital artist Theo Triantafyllidis which debuted on November 25 2020, featuring a soundtrack by Sun Araw & Tomo
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ARCHITECTURE WITH GAMES IN THE TITLE Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 18' (3 x 6'), 2020 (Croatia) Created by Mario Mu, 2020 VRAL November 27 - December 10 2020 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Architecture with Games in the Title focuses on the convergence between spatial memory
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The Overkill Festival Opening: Friday November 27th 2020, 19:00 Festival: Friday November 27th - Sunday December 6th 2020 Time Schedule: www.theoverkill.nl The might collective Sickhouse - founded by Aike Lutkemuller and Marie Janin - is organizing The Overkill Festival, a smosgaboard of game-related content and events comprising
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CHEATIMERISM Digital video, color, suond, 14’ 55’’, 2020 (Italy) Created by Luca Miranda VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti By reconfiguring the spaces of Grand Theft Auto V, Cheatimerism investigates the political and economic implications of consumption and its side effects, including concrete waste, virtual surrogacy, and planned obsolescence. This machinima
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INFINITE GRAVEYARD digital video, color, sound, 666'“, 2020 (Russia) Created by Mikhail Maksimov VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Mikhail Maksimov first encountered videogames at the age of twelve. His first time was with Clive Townsend’s Saboteur! (1985) on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Subsequently, he fell in love with
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The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series at UC Berkeley presents Skawennati, "World Re-Building: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures" Thursday, November 5 | 5:00 — 6:30 PM | Online Skawennati will present the artwork and ideas of the Indigenously-determined research/creation networks
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Berkeley Center for New Media presents: ATC Lecture — Lawrence Lek, "The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL" Monday, October 26 | 6:30-8:00PM | Online Register for Zoom link hereOr stream via YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8hq6oU__viC_fDu2lhOe7wInterlaced with conspiracy theories and speculative
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London Film Festival Expanded October 7–18 A new strand of XR and immersive art and virtual exhibition space Official link Press release: LFF Expanded is BFI London Film Festival’s new dedicated strand of XR and immersive Art. Using cinema as a jumping off point, LFF Expanded features virtual