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Fantastic Christmas gift from NYU Game Center: all the video lectures and presentations are now available for free. Film and/or video recordings of all entries can be found in the NYU Game Center archive. Below is Cara Ellison's lecture The Birth of the Gamemaker, which took place
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With Idle Animation, artist Aaron Hynds documents his gameplay activity through a four-channel video installation. This work was presented at the Digital Perceptions Exhibition in 2014, which took place at the Willard Wankelman Gallery at Bowling Green State University during ArtsX 2014. Idle Animation uses footage from Kentucky Route Zero.
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Killer series of screenings @ MIX NY today in the Queer Wi-Fi: Do Trust Strangers show curated by Filipe Afonso. The guest curator writes that: "Spending time in front of screens, exploring and navigating virtual worlds has opened a path to swapping genres, creating new avatars, fantasies and anxieties. We
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Professor Lisa Nakamura talks about racing and games at Meaningful Play Conference 2014. The event was sponsored by the Quello Center at Michigan State University and served as the opening event for the conference. LINK: Meaningful Play Conference 2014Submitted by Matteo BIttanti
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Eddo Stern, Still Life With Putin (with Cyril Kuhn), computer game, 2014The Beall Center for Art + Technology in Irvine, California presents Eddo Stern: New Works. Curated by David Familian, the exhibition features five game based projects: Darkgame 4.0, Vietnam Romance, Still Life With Putin, House Stern Pachinko, and Cruise
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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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I had the pleasure of having A.B. Young in my GAMESCENES course at California College of the Arts in the Spring of 2014. This semester, Young wrote a terrific essay on fandom and Game Art titled "Fanfiction as Critical Play" which she has been kind enough to
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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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LINK : Justin Hall Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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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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LINK: Frank Lantz Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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LINK : Clara Fernandez-Vara Submitted by Matteo Bittanti