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Estelle Flores: Contém Ingredientes de Verdade May 17 - July 26 2025 MuMA Digital Art Center (Rua República Argentina, 3430 – Portão, Curitiba – PR) Curated by biarritzzz The Digital Art Center of the Curitiba Municipal Art Museum (MuMA) is currently hosting the exhibition Contém Ingredientes de Verdade (“Contains Real Ingredients”) by
CONCEPTUAL
Rhythm Zero Los Santos digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 112’ , 2019, Germany created by Jonas Blume What happens when an artist surrenders all agency in a game space designed for violence? In Rhythm Zero Los Santos (2019), Jonas Blume stages a durational performance inside Grand Theft Auto Online,
ARCADE
Standing before The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty), one is confronted by the chilling absurdity of purchasing the right to obliterate a city. In this interactive installation, Dutch Collective WERC lays bare the uneasy, visually seductive appeal of spectacular violence. The participant, posed as a player and a consumer,
3D ANIMATION
A Poet in the (Parallel) World digital video (3840 x 2160), color, sound, 7′ 45”, 2023, Italy. created by Luca Miranda, Riccardo Retez VRAL June 20-July 3 2025 A Poet in the (Parallel) World reimagines the relationship between poetry, photography, and virtual environments. Part of an ongoing series examining remakes
3D ANIMATION
Exhibition identity artwork: Keiken & Gabriel Massan, Uxkme / Morphogenic Angels: I know who I am, although I have forgotten who I am (2025) Console Spirituality Curated by LAN Party (Vienna Kim & Benoit Palop) Feral File June 24 2025 press release (abridged) Opening June 24th on Feral File, Console Spirituality
3D ANIMATION
Intrusion digital video (3840 x 2160), color, sound, 15’ 42” seconds, 2021, Taiwan created by Poyuan Juan vral.org Intrusion draws upon the server migration incident that occurred between 2007 and 2011, when a large number of Chinese World of Warcraft players relocated to Taiwan servers following regulatory conflicts and
3D ANIMATION
The Analogy of Space digital video, color, sound, 12’, 2022, Ukraine created by Oleksandr Hoisan May 23-June 5 2025 vral.org The Analogy of Space (2022) is a 12-minute machinima made with/in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar Games, 2004), utilizing the CamHunt plugin to enable articulate, fluid cinematography
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Pascal Greco Nature Numérique: Photographier le jeu vidéo par Pascal Greco May 21 - June 5 2025 Musée Suisse du Jeu Rue du Château 11 1814 La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland (English below) Dans les années 1990, les mondes numériques ont souvent été pensés comme dissociés du réel : d’un côté, la
COLLABORATION
Total Refusal Sons and True Sons Sat 17.5.2025, 19:00 / HAU2 Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin, Germany Part of “A MAZE. / Berlin 2025 – 14th International Games and Playful Media Festival” Part of “IETM Berlin Plenary Meeting 2025” press release In Sons and True Sons, the Viennese media guerrilla
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The Way of the Future Single-channel UHD video (color), 2-channel sound, 8’ 02”, 2025, Palestine created by Firas Shehadeh May 9-22 2025 vral.org Set against the hauntingly desolate backdrop of The Last of Us video game, The Way of the Future follows a lone figure traversing a decayed territory
3D ANIMATION
Against the Will, Against Staying StillEsto Association 24 Zaimi str. 10683 Athens GreeceMay 15 - 18 2025curated by Babak Ahteshamipour featuring Erifili Doukeli, Matthew D. Gantt, Berenike Gregoor, Nichole Shinn, Captain Stavros, and Pauvre Terre Against the Will, Against Staying Still is a group exhibition curated by Babak Ahteshamipour that
ACTIVISM
Screenshot from Anthology of the Killer (2024) by Stephen GillmurphySEQUENCEBREAK// March 20 - June 28 2025 Curated by Nilson Carroll Visual Studies Workshop 36 King Street Rochester, New York 14608 From March 20 to June 28, 2025, the Visual Studies Workshop presents SEQUENCEBREAK//, a wide-ranging, genre-subverting arcade of experimental games