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More cognitive dissonance from Kent Sheely: "Part 7 of an ongoing series of scenes featuring video game characters 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) LINK: Kenton Sheely
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Harun Farocki, Serious Games II (image via Neural) Don't miss this splendid interview on Neural: Daphne Dragona talks to Harun Farocki (b. 1944) about Serious Games. It was originally published in November 2012 and highlights the connection between Vilem Flusser and the German artist. Here's
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Skins is an ambitious game project developed by Jason Lewis' obx Studios, which has been documented through a series of articles and essays. The computer game can be downloaded from this URL but the project has transmedia ambitions as it includes, among other things, a series of machinima. As
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During the day, Denver based artist Chris Carlson works at his 3D design company. At night, he creates works influenced by game-aesthetics (not necessarily digital), like this incredible time-lapse video series based on Tetris. His preferred mediums are paint, pastel chalk and graphite.LINK: Chris Carlson related Tetris-art: one, two
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A Los Angeles based artist, Oliver Payne (b. 1977) was born and raised in London. His first solo show at Herald St gallery exemplifies his interest in the " lunatic space in bullet hell games".We previously discussed Payne's fascinating "Arcade Field Recording" series in
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A critical inquiry into Super Mario Brothers from Chris Novello aka paperkettle, the master of ludic codebending: "Conceptually, it is like Super Mario meets Groundhog Day. Mario's universe computer / time machine gets caught in hellish loops." "In the video, I directly manipulate the RAM of
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Image: Hammer Museum "The UCLA Game Lab in collaboration with the Hammer Student Association (HSA) presents an evening of innovative gaming curated by Game Lab director and associate professor of Design Media Arts Eddo Stern. With games ranging from the bombastic and performative to the intimate and personal, these
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foci + loci ((Tamara Yadao and Chris Burke) performed a live version of "F. T. Mari(o)netti" at Vector Game Art Festival in Toronto on February 23, 2013. Like 200 Keyholes, this performance also uses LittleBigPlanet 2 as both platform and medium. From Futurism to Fascism, in a
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GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this fascinating artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the
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The Itagaki Interface is the latest project by Daniele Hopkins and Kyle Duffield. The two formed a collaborative aptly titled Hopkins Duffield. The Itagaki Interface uses the artists' bodies to "challenge exaggerated representations of the human body in the fighting game Dead or Alive, created by Tomonobu Itakagi.
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Banopticon (or Banoptikon) is an online single-player 3D computer game developed by the media arts collective Personal Cinema addressing the issue of immigration to and within the European Union. Under development since January of 2010, the game will be released at the end of April 2013. Personal Cinema collective includes
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In Bren Watanabe's for(){}; a custom computer application with sound, projection mapped onto three wall mounted paintings, "there is no beginning or end to the game, just collecting and wandering, birthing and consuming, an arbitrary point system rising until your inevitable death and the birth of another