EVENT
NYU Game Center Lecture Series presents Clara Fernandez Vara The Art of World Building Thursday, March 6th, 7PM 2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor This sounds like a terrific talk. Free and open to the public. Additional details here. LINK : NYU GAME CENTER Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
A 30 minute lecture by Paolo Pedercini aka Molleindustria originally given at Indiecade East 2014, based on an essay included in the catalog of Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, an exhibition at FACT gallery in Liverpool. LINK : Paolo Pedercini aka Mollindustria Suvmitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
More than a prankster: Born in Montpellier, France in 1975, Rémi Gallard is a modern day Alfred Jarry, a pataphysical performer challenging the arid logic of the machine with playful, always outrageous, at times sinister, public interventions. The result of elaborate planning and staging activities - often involving a group
GAME ART
Franz Milec's new work is a playful take on "Conway's Game of Life and its evolutionary principles with its philosophical and religious predecessors" (Milec). Described as an art installation - the software runs on a tablet set on a vertical stand (hence the 2001-inspired
ART GAME
"The Blank Arcade Understanding design as research, the DIGRA 2014 committee invites submissions of games that fill in the blanks. Games should ostensibly fill in the blanks of design or ludic experience, offering new game play experiences, highlighting spaces that are relatively uninhabited by other playful experiences or that
3D ANIMATION
Victor Morales' upcoming show at the Dixon Place in New York City on February 17, 2014 is titled "Electric Boogaloo Blues - the decay comes before the blues***". Morales describes it as "rough puppeteering using gamepad and ipad mashed with sound reactive shaders". Unmissable. LINK
ART GAME
"A MAZE. / Berlin is an international platform for independent games that invites professionals and creatives from various fields to exchange their knowledge and visions, presenting their projects, playing, making contacts to collaborate on future projects. You can expect two days of inspiration, skill, celebration and play. " (A MAZE.
ESSAY
In case you did not know, Douglas Coupland invented Minecraft, or so he tells edgy Italian contemporary art magazine Mousse (issue 42, February–March 2014): LINK : Douglas Coupland Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
GameScenes recommends: Norman Chan (Tested) wrote an in-depth profile (cum interview) of Jeremy Williams, creator of the Game Frame, a pixel art construction kit/display tool. On January 20, 2014, Philippa Warr (WIRED UK) wrote about The Museum of Simulation Technology, a video game dealing with forced perspective developed by
ART GAME
The mighty IndieGames blog has recently announced that the Game Developers Conference 2014 organizers have selected fourteen teams for the debut of ALT.CTRL.GDC, "an on-site exhibit of alternative control schemes and interactions, including the Oculus Rift and AKAI LPD8 paired Please Don't, Spacedog!, caterpillar sim
GAME ART
Bashir Sultani's Minecraft Steve, 2014LINK : Bashir Sultani Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
PIXEL ART
Artist, critic, and curator Jon Gurley argues that the "Art" featured in videogames is a form of art. We could not agree more. In fact, we loove his new tumblr, Video Game Art, which reminds us of the similarly edgy initiatives "Paintings in Porn" or "