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Brooklyn-based artist Aaron Sherwood - who is also Artist in Residence at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, as well as a Masters Degree candidate at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program - has developed an interactive installation with the collaboration of Mike Allison. "A stretched sheet of spandex acts
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"Are games worthy of academic attention? Can they be used effectively in the classroom, in the research laboratory, as an innovative design tool, as a persuasive political weapon? Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism aims to answer these and more questions. It features chapters by authors chosen from around
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Most Game Art focuses on the product, rather then the process. There are, however, a few exceptions. The always stimulating Kent Sheely provides a terrific documentation of one his most interesting projects, Day of Defeat. As you may remember, in October 2011, Sheeley updated his seminal series "DOD: A
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"In this video self-portrait titled Default Avatars, I explore the racial appearances of default avatars by becoming the "start from scratch" male Mii, a character which remains the same on the console across the globe" (Wes Wilson, 2010) Previously Related: Marquee Cornblatt (2007); Robert Petrosino (2010)
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Australian visual artist Georgie Roxby Smith's new machinima was developed within Skyrim. Quite a sisyphean twist on Scott Snibbe's The Falling Girl (2007)! You may remember Smith's previous work, Uncomposed (After Titian After Georgione). LINK : Georgie Roxby Smith Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Coll.eo, After Cars, Digital prints, 2012 "AFTER CARS is a photographic documentation of digital sculptures created by Coll.eo within Garry’s Mod v. 13. GMOD is a sandbox physics game based on a modified Source Engine originally introduced in 2006. Alternating a surrealist sensibility with a dark,
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Nylon Walnut writes: "Walking through a room in Berwick Museum and Art Gallery we spotted a 1920s football game, donated to the Museum when a seafront attraction closed. We were on another job at the Museum and had very little time but it was too good to miss... a
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In Hertz' latest project - originally developed in 2011 and since implemented - "a data projector displays an image on a wall. Loud heavy metal music plays in the space. When an individual walks up to the wall, a mirrored avatar of the person is displayed on the
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Chris Novello performs on illucia - a codebending instrument that connects different software applications via physical jacks and cables (lots' of them: 16 jacks, 6 knobs, 4 buttons, 4 switches, 4 variable brightness LEDs!, also available as a console). As Novello explains, "Codebending is the exploration of software
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A tragic reminder - and an ironic visualization - of the ongoing art game diatribe. Federici's work for Amusement magazine (2010) could not be more more apropos. LINK : Raphael Federici Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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A killer new exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, featuring, among others, Eddo Stern: Full details are available here. Eddo Stern's piece, Moneymakingworkshop (2012) "addresses head-on the detachment that electronic games can create head-on". Intriguing. LINK : Gameroom Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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An impressive list of events and games o display is one of the many reasons not to miss the first edition of Playful Arts Festival in Hertogenbosch, Holland, a three day event that "stimulates the cross-over between different fields of play, interaction and design. Part festival part showcase it