ART GAME
Alex Myers, WINNING, digital game, 2008 Alex Myers' latest project, WINNING, visually examines the inner logic of the FPS by compressing both temporal and spatial coordinates. Originally developed in 2008, the project has been updated for its upcoming showing at Vector Game + Art Conference in Toronto, Canada. Located in
ESSAY
GameScenes Recommends: Lana Polansky, "Static Electricity: On Photography in Videogames", Videogame Tourism, February 3, 2014. Isabelle Arvers, GamesReflexions exhibition: on games and reality, published on February 5, 2014 Nicholas O' Brien, "The Possibilities and Pitfalls of the Video Game Exhibition", Rhizome, February 4, 2014 =>
ART GAME
One of the most interesting Game Art exhibitions of the year is entirely dedicated to football aka soccer. Titled Futbol: The Beautiful Game, the new show at the LACMA (February 2 - July 20, 2014) features a killer list of players, pardon, artists who have explored the aesthetics, politics, and
GAME ART
Fabian Wigren's "In these realms I roam" lets the visitor experience the world as viewed in a third person computer game, like World of Warcraft. In this video, Wigren (b. Stockholm, 1987) wanders through the rooms of his art academy, engaging - virtually - with the
ARCADE
By far, one of the most exciting events of early 2014. Taking place at the House of Electronic Arts Basel, Art & Arcade is a new show curated by Alain Bieber featuring "seven artistic arcade-machines from all over the world (Painstation, PentaPong, The Machine, Radical ATM, Tesla Arcade, Cage
ART GAME
Patrick LeMieux, Art Games, in-game screenshots, 2008-2009 (Images courtesy of the artist). Between 2008 and 2009, artist and scholar Patrick LeMieux developed "[A] series of videogames based on the monochromatic paintings of Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Yves Klein, and Andy Warhol. The games are designed to be
Baden Pailthorpe
A second recent piece by Jairo Gutierrez, The Infinite Walk, is about individuality and collective agency, indoctrination, and normative behavior. Although completely unrelated, this work reminds me of Baden Pailthorpe's outstanding Formation series. "A default avatar stand in an empty black space. Through a gamepad is possible
ART GAME
This is quite intriguing. Just don't call it Flower. This is a remarkably different experience, with a powerful, political subtext. Cuban artist Jairo Gutiérrez took part in the exhibition Cuban Virtualities (2013), curated by Rewell Altunaga and Liz Munsell at The Tufts University Art Gallery at the Shirley
EVENT
The first major Game Art event of 2014. Joseph Delappe's solo show at the Fresno Art Museum from January 24 to April 27, 2014. A killer retrospective featuring sixteen artworks by DeLappe, who is also a Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno
BOOK
A new book release from CONCRETE PRESS, GRAND THEFT VITO: "Between July 3 and 25 of 2013, San Francisco-based artists COLL.EO walked through the streets of Liberty City, the fictional metropolis of Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games, 2008) under the guise of Vito Acconci. Titled Following Bit,
ARCADE
Insert Coin - Happiness is a Lightgun, December 2013Insert Coin - Happiness is a Lightgun, December 2013 - trailerInsert Coin - Alien Night, November 2013 Insert Coin - Ninja Edition, October 2013 Think Milan is only about fashion and design? Blast the stereotype away! The real appeal of Milano is
GAME ART
A blast from the past! "Kung-Fu Glitch is a modification of Kung Fu Master (1984), an arcade game developed by Irem Corporation in Japan, later ported to the Commodore 64. With the Retro Replay cartridge for C64 the artists gain full access to the RAM of the C64 to