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Game Art: Matteo Bittanti's "Slow Fighter I-III" (2009)
"Why has pleasure in slowness disappeared?" (Milan Kundera)
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Game Art: Tim Devine & "Onur Sonmez' "The Mexican Standoff" (2010)
"The Mexican Standoff removes the link between the persons thoughts and actions; people are directly thinking about what they are doing – creating a hyperreality. Two people use their minds via EEG headsets to fire their guns in a Mexican Standoff realised in an ultra-violent first person shooter (FPS). The
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Event: Sight 09/10 (Museo Laboratorio, Pescara, Italy, 12/18 - 01/23 2010)
featuring: Damiano Colacito & Aram Bartholl among the others
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Game Art: Studio Kinglux' "GAMEFACE"
"GAMEFACE" is a collection of gamers' portraits collected by eclectic/electric cool hunters Studio Kinglux, located in Birmingham, UK. As Lili Weiss & Tony Hill write, "We had been inspecting the vague, blank, expressions of gamers in a kind of narcissistic feedback loop. We had been
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Video: Julian Oliver, art & games (CrossLab, New Zealand, Dec 10 2009)
Archived video of the presentation by Julian Oliver during the CrossLab LunchEvent of 10 december 2009. (Thanks to Evolutie!)Link: CrossLab's BlipTv ChannelLink: Creative Machinery
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Interview: Nicola Verlato (Domenico Quaranta, ArtPulse)
Nicola Verlato, "Gator", 2008 (oil on wood panel) I[mage courtesy of the artist] excerpt: "Domenico Quaranta: To tell the truth, there is a lot of Toryism in video games. Some weeks ago I was on a panel with some conceptual artists, those who design landscapes and
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Interview: Anne-Marie Schleiner's “Cracking the Maze” (1999) - A decade later
In July 1999, artist and scholar Anne-Marie Schleiner curated the exhibition “Cracking the Maze: Game Plug-ins and Patches as Hacker Art" at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. The exhibition featured both artists and game hackers and presented artistic modifications of commercial videogames. Ten years later, GameScenes
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Event: PLAYLIST. Playing Games, Music, Art (Laboral, Gijón, Spain, 18.12.2009 – 17.05.2010)
PLAYLIST. PLAYING GAMES, MUSIC, ART CURATOR: Domenico Quaranta DATES: 18.12.2009 – 17.05.2010 VENUE: Mediateca Expandida de LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Los Prados, 121, 33394 Gijón – Asturias) MORE INFO: www.laboralcentrodearte.org ARTISTS: Paul B. Davis (UK), Jeff Donaldson / NoteNdo (DE), Dragan Espenschied (DE), Gino
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Game Art: Brock Davis' abstract paintings of arcade games (2009)
All images courtesy of the artist Artist and musician Brock Davis is the author of a series of abstract paintings inspired by Golden Age arcade games like Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, and Missile Command. You might also remember his amazing Halo 3 Self-Portraits from 2007.Link: "Arcade Series"
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Game Art: Mr. Talion's "Tribute to Doom" (2009)
All images courtesy of Mr Talion Several German street artists have "hacked" and "modded" existing billboards in Berlin, turning them into a static version of Doom. Talking about "total conversion"... Adopting the same tactics used by culture jammers, artists such as Baveux, Kone, Epoxy
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Link: "The Game of Art: a Profile of Cory Arcangel"
Cory Arcangel (source) "One of the most widely recognised proponents of this emerging practice is New York-based artist Cory Arcangel, who is currently curating a fascinating exhibition at London's Lisson Gallery. While studying music at the Oberlin Conservatory in the late-Nineties he joined an experimental programming collective
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Game Art: Adam Richardson's "Invaded Space" (2009)
Adam Richardson, "Invaded Space" (2009) All images courtesy of the artist British photographer, graphic designer, and design director Adam Richardson has superimposed images of Space Invaders to war pictures that he appropriated from The Boston Globe. (via ALBOTAS) Link: Adam Richardson