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In this short video essay, Polygon's contributor Clayton Ashley describes the relationship between the Hudson River School style of landscape painting and the vistas of Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2. It's more about ideology than aesthetics: art is not neutral. He discusses light and
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IN A GAMESCAPE. LANDSCAPE, REALITY, STORYTELLING AND IDENTITY IN VIDEO GAMES An exhibition co-curated by DOI Nobuaki and TANIGUCHI Akihiko December 15, 2018–March 10, 2019, 11:00am–6:00pm NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A Tokyo, Japan OFFICIAL WEBSITE Among other works, video games as a form of contemporary
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Parallel Worlds 2019 – A Conference on Videogame Design and Culture Friday 25 January 2015, 10:30 -17:30 Victoria and Albert Museum, London Tickets £35 full price, £30 concessions, £15 student Parallel Worlds, the V&A’s conference dedicated to videogame design and culture, will be back for more
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Vector Festival 2019's Open Call for Submissions is now up!Deadline: February 01, 2019An event organized by 950 Dupont St., Unit 1. Toronto ON M6H 1Z2 CanadaLINK: Vector Festival 2019
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A MAZE./Berlin 2019 Awards: CALL FOR GAMES IS OPEN UNTIL FEB. 4th 2019 * new award: Explorer Award * selection committee is starting its work * new location * early bird tickets available until February 28th 2019 From April 10-13 A MAZE. / Berlin 2019, the 8th international games and playful media festival, invites
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Michael Smith, Mike Builds a Shelter (1983), Photo by AND/OR galleryVIDEO GAME ART 1870-2005AND/OR GALLERY980 S ARROYO PKWY #200 PASADENA, CA 91105 Show #32 explores the history of experiments in art video games. Today, there is a booming indie game industry, and experimental video game courses are taught
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American artist Joseph DeLappe is streaming right now on Twitch a new online performance, a replay of an early project titled “War Poetry: Medal of Honor, Allied Assault Online”, where the artist read the poetry of British soldier Wilfred Owen in a first-person shooter game. We spoke to DeLappe in
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From the author of Jeff Koons Must Die!!! and Can You Hear Me Now? comes Beating a Dead Horse with a One-Trick Pony, a first-person RPG (ArtPG) with a narrative, mild melee combat, and some platforming elements. The game is a sequel to Jeff Koons Must Die!!! and is set
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Martin Geisler and Rainer Sigl discuss in-game photography with Melek Balgün in another episode of the excellent Art of Gaming series on Gallic/Teutonic channel Arte. Themes and keywords: the photographer as a demiurge via modding. Photography as alternative/emergent gameplay. In-game photography adds "extra value" to the
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GAMEZFESTIVAL 2018: POSTMORTEM November 9 - 11, 2018Kunstraum Walcheturm Kanonengasse 20, Zurich Switzerland The sixth edition of Swiss game fest extravaganza gameZfestival is upon us. The event is jam packed with three days of talks, international guests, indie game studios, panel discussions, awards and an OpenMic. The theme of the
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LONGITUDE EXHIBITION Curated by Hugh Davies October 17 to November 25th, 2018 Library at the Dock 107-117 Victoria Harbour Promenade Docklands, Melbourne Australia https://longitude-exhibition.net Featuring artists from across the Asia-Pacific Region, the Longitude exhibition presents cultural, experimental, design and arts practices in the medium of games. Running alongside
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GLITCH EVERYTHING @LIKELIKE Friday November 2nd, 2018 7-11PM During the Unblurred gallery crawl 205 North Evaline St Pittsburgh, PA An exhibition of games and playthings exploring the aesthetics of computer errors and data corruption. In an increasingly digitized world happy accidents can contami̵n̵a̴t̷e anything: gli̵t̸