GAME ART
Game Art: SaveMe Oh's "Happy Birthday" (2013)
What can I say? Just reiterate that SaveMe Oh is pure genius. Loved the Eadweard Muybridge references. LINK : SaveMe Oh Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Video: Ian Albinson's "A Brief History of Video Game Title Design" (2013)
A brief history of video game title design, created by Ian Albison for Will Perkins and Lola Landekick's presentation“Talking Titles: How The Language of Cinema Changed Video Games” @gamercamp.ca. Edited by Ian Albinson. Soundtrack: Anamanaguchi's "Endless Fantasy" LINK : Ian Albison Submitted by
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Event: Level Art (Wroclaw, Poland, November 13-15, 2013)
If you happen to be in Wroclaw, Poland between November 13-15 don't miss Isabelle Arvers' workshop focusing on machinima, 8-bit aesthetics and demoscene. Arvers is giving a talk about the medium of machinima. As she writes on her blog, "I actually think that we can now
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Game Art: Jorge Nuno Coutinho's "Revenge of Revenge of Doh" (2013)
Presented at the 9th Edition of the Black & White festival, Revenge of Revenge of Doh (RoRoD) is an interactive installation created by Portuguese artist Jorge Nuno Coutinhoinspired by the video game Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh (Taito, 1987). As in many others Breakout clones, the player's goal in
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Game Art: Kent Sheely's "Trauma Tube (Warp Zone Edition)" (2013)
A variation of an interpretation of an event based on an original performance by Andrew Gardikis: "Super Mario world-record speedrun + Plumbing inspection footage = Frantic pipe exploration" (Kent Sheely). LINK : Kent Sheely Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ESSAY
Article: Bad at Sports does Gaming
Now trending: Videogame criticism on contemporary art blogs. It makes perfect sense. In fact, I cannot think of a better place for game criticism. I am just surprised that it took so long. => Paul King on Gone Home & Half-Life, and, previously, Proteus. Good stuff. LINK: Bad at Sports
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Article: QUEER GAMING (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
LINK : SF BAY Guardian Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Event: Punk Arcade (November 7-9, 2013, UCLA GameLab) [updated]
PUNK ARCADE a UCLA GAME LAB EVENT November 9, 2013, 5:00 - 8 pm, free and open to the public Punk Arcade is a DIY games exhibit presenting works that are independent, minimal, offbeat, and sometimes gritty. Curators team up with artists, students and designers to race against the
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Event: Festival GAMERZ Performance Night (Oct 19, 2013, Aix-en-Provence, France)
If you are lucky enough to be in Aix-en-Provence for GAMERZ #9, one of the hottest Game Art festivals in Europe - if not the world - don't miss the Performance Night at the École Supérieure d'Art from 7 pm till midnight. Here's the
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Game Art: Zach Nader's "Optional Features Shown" (2012)
The artistic playfulness of the project lies in a remarkable use of the "ghosting" metaphor, which is relevant for digital gaming as a whole - it has been explored in Game Art before, consider, for instance, Riley Harmon's early work - and especially central in the
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Game Art: Jonathan Monaghan's "Mothership" (2013)
Jonathan Monaghan's new body of work is titled "Mothership" and it will be presented at Moving Image London during the Frieze art fair between October 17 - 20 2013 at The Bargehouse in the South Bank. Additionally, Curator's Office has just released Jonathan Monaghan:
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Game Art: R. Guillaume Bourdon's "Caprices de Second Life en ruines" (2013 - ongoing)
An interesting project intersecting different disciplines: new media studies, media archeology, digital preservation and Game Art by Canadian artist R. Guillaume Bourdon aka RGB. As Bourdon explains: "This is a series of short scenes I took while exploring parts of an abandoned island in the game Second Life. I&