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These drawings seem influenced by Q.bert and echochrome in equal measure. The Scripted Atrium acrylic, oil on canvas. 80cm x 110cm This reminds me of Introversion's games. NODULOR acrylic, oil on canvas.130cm x 180cm Either way, they are stimply stunning. His latest works are on display
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"Pong was the first. Its ability to entertain people for hours on end with no visible narrative or plot line was the feature that distinguished it from other forms of media, namely music and movies. It was the setting that counted here, and the setting alone. Of course, Pong’
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LINK: MoMa Talks Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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The third episode of Kent Sheely's fascinating "Ready for Action" series, now featuring two different games, Grand Theft Auto IV and Max Payne 3. "Ready for Action" is to 2012 what "Videos after Videogames" was in 1996. "The titular character Max
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Pippin Barr, War Game, Flash game, 2012 From art game maker extraordinaire Pippin Barr comes another killer production, "War Game", an homage to the aesthetics of LCD handhelds games with a political message and haunting sound fx. As Barr wrote a few days ago, "The point of
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Mark Tribe, Grunder Hill Road, Archival pigment print, courtesy of Momenta ArtMark Tribe, Rush Creek, Archival pigment print, courtesy of Momenta ArtMark Tribe, Bottsford Hollow, Archival pigment print, courtesy of Momenta ArtMark Tribe, Rare Earth, Archival pigment print, courtesy of Momenta ArtMark Tribe, Black Creek, Archival pigment print, courtesy of
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Justin Berry, Purple Dusk (Medal of Honor), 2012, Archival Inkjet Print, 20 in x 16, 50.8 cm x 40.64, Edition 1 of 5 courtesy of Interstate Projects5Justin Berry, Purple Dusk (Medal of Honor), 2012, [detail] "In playing violent, war-themed, video games, Berry chooses to act against the
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Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG, Reenactment of Vito Acconci's Seedbed2010, Performance in Second Life and Plymouth Art CentreLINK: Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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These images - borrowed from Virtual Geographic, a relatively new Tumblr curated by a game photographer called James Pollock - are part of the documentation of his latest art project, i.e., a wall of 190 photos depicting video game spaces "printed and cut to resemble Polaroids". As
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Thursday 28 June - Sunday 28 October 2012 Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne. "ACMI's latest blockbuster exhibition curated by Emma McRae celebrates the work of the world's most innovative and influential videogame designers, including Peter Molyneux, Warren Spector, Tim Schafer, Hideo
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Kent Sheely, Ready for Action: GTA (Bus Station), machinima, 2012 "The protagonist from Grand Theft Auto IV, at the mercy of public transportation. Audio from the game has been blended with audio captured while waiting for public transportation in the real world." (Kent Sheely) A second video in
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Julian Opie, Imagine you are walking, 1998, silkscreen print on paper As John Carmack dreams of virtual reality in 2012, it is clear that we are perpetually stuck in the 1990s. Aesthetically, ludically, ideologically. Like or not, DOOM and Julian Opie are the "New Aesthetic". "In summary: