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Piet Mondrian meets Pac-Man in the game Pac-Mondrian created by the group Price Budget Boys from Canada. The first version of Pac-Mondrian is from 2002 and is based on Piet Mondrian’s painting Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43). Mondrian was inspired by the city grid of Manhattan and the Boogie Woogie
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Jude Buffum is an illustrator and designer from Philadelphia. He graduated from the Tyler School of Art in 2001 with a BFA in Graphic Arts and Design. In the Spring of 2009 he created an installation at the Nerotitan Gallery in Berlin called “Ich Bin 8-bit installation”. With help of
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Artist in Studio (1/3) from Antoinette J. Citizen on Vimeo [Pictures courtesy of the artist]Australian artist Antoinette J. Citizen created an art installation of an interactive Super Mario Brothers Level 1-1 Room with working question mark boxes and bricks that would make sounds from the game Link: Antoinette
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Last June GameScenes wrote about Jose Olivares graduating work at Tisch School of Art, New York. “Ancient Pixel” was a merge of lo-resolution videogame graphics and Andean textile art into a multi-channel interactive video work. Mixing ancient carpets and 8-bit videogames is not a new idea in Game Art. In
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Workspace Unlimited, THEY WATCH (work in progress) from EMPAC @ Rensselaer on Vimeo. "Workspace Unlimited: They WatchThey Watch is an immersive art installation with virtual characters literally watching visitors. Several duplicates of the virtual characters – one man, one woman, and both portraits of the artists – surround and interact with visitors,
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Images courtesy of Pippa StalkerDeath plays a major theme in life, art and videogames. In “Telling Death” Pippa Stalker/Tshabalala has combined this elements into a new art project. It began in 2006 when she exhibited a series of photographs at The Parking Gallery in Johannesburg. The serie was entitled
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Pictures courtesy of Suzy Newbranch and ichimusai It has been called the world’s longest art exhibition. Stockholm subway was built in the fifties and in every one of the 91 stations you can find some form of art installations. The Swedish artist Lars Arrhenius made his contribution in 2008
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What: Space Invaders: Art in the Computer Game EnvironmentWhen: December 17 - February 21Where: FACT, Liverpool (UK)Space Invaders: Art in the Computer Game Environment is a group exhibition exploring the increasingly blurred boundaries between videogame spaces and real spaces. From the detailed, complex urban landscapes of Grand Theft Auto
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With “Q4U” the Chinese New Media Artist Feng Mengbo introduced Game Art to the international art scene at Documenta 11. His latest work is a videogame called Restart based on the “Long March: Game Over", a series of 42 oil paintings made in 1994, which links the Long March,
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Gazira Babeli: ACTING AS ALIENS Exhibition curated by Domenico Quaranta Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia November 3 – 15, 2009 Opening and performance: November 3, 9.00 PM (CET) Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art and Kapelica gallery are proud to announce “Gazira Babeli: Acting as Aliens”, the first solo exhibition of the
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'Old school' - Bromma gymnasium, Stockholm. Glass mosaics. Commissioned by Stockholms konstråd / Stockholm Art Council 2007. Finished spring 2008. [Bromma gymnasium, Nyängsv. 152-154, Bromma. T-bana Stora Mossen]All images courtesy of the artistThe Swedish artist Kristofffer Zetterstrand mix art- and videogame history in his works. In the spring
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I'm really excited to introduce Mathias Jansson, a Swedish artcritic writing about new media art and Game Art. Mathias is the author of the excellent Game Art Database, the Game Art Map, and the Game Art Facebook group.Link: Mathias Jansson's official website Game Art LibraryLink: