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Kent Sheely and Null Ace remind us that the World Cup exemplifies everything that is wrong about Neoliberalism: massive exploitation of the dispossessed, marginalization of the underprivileged, celebration of the 1% through bloated advertising deals, social control via the Spectacle and other abominations. World Cup Conflict is a collaborative, interactive
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GAMERZ, one of the most important events dedicated to Game Art returns this Fall in Aix-en-Provence, France. Above is a video-recap of the previous edition, which features music from Postcoïtum. Below is a selection of artworks by Isabelle Arvers in the Machinglitch section. As always, GAMERZ delivers the very best.
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Red Shirts and Blue Shirts (The Gay Agenda) is another great example of in-game intervention from New York-based artist Angela Washko. As I recently discussed in Siena, Italy, there's critical play, but also critical players and Washko exemplifies the latter in her attempt to bring into the spotlight
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lamegame, STREETfight performance in Hamburg, 2013Irresistible street performance by Kathleen Rappolt and Nils Deventer, directed by Stefanie Rejzek and Gwendolin Lamping aka lamegame, whose goal, motto and mantra is to invent "low tech/no tech streetgames and performances" (my kind of games). Rejzek and Lamping met at the
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On June 16, 2014, Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti were invited to participate to an international workshop on GAMING, ART, AND CULTURE in Siena, Italy organized by Professor Pier Luigi Sacco and Nicola Tripet. The event took place in the Bibliotechina of Santa Maria della Scala, located in Piazza del
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A new, insane video by Sandra Araújo featuring music by João Mascarenhas and guest voice & lyrics by Rafael Dionísio. Mastered by Pedro Costa, the video is from Uma Desgraça Nunca Vem Só, released on June 5 June, 2014. It features Pikachu, a horse jockey, an howl, Miles Cyrus, a
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Not quite Game Art, but genius, nonetheless. Guitar Hero is a "wearable musical device which is sort of in between a guitar and a keyboard. It translates finger gestures into signals and play out different notes." Developed by Yen Chen Chang as his graduation project for the Design
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A showcase video featuring a series of projects created with CryEngine, Unity and other game engines by Venezuela-born artist Victor Morales. Stunning work. LINK : Victor Morales Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Australian artist Chris Howlett was kind enough to share his latest work, New Dawn, a 4-channel unsynched video which he presented at Boxcopy gallery in Brisbane, Australia in 2013. As Howlett explains, New Dawn explores the mysterious nature of reality in the objects and the mediatized spaces that surround us
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Art in Video Games, Los Angeles is a 13-part documentary about the convergence between age and videogames produced by Kurt Mattila and Alexander Dervin for MOCA TV, MOCAtv is a contemporary art video channel, developed as a digital extension of the education and exhibition programming of the Museum of Contemporary
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New project from COLL.EO: GRAND THEFT SAMO, a modded version of Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games, 2008), GRAND THEFT SAMO is an in-game performance, a series of videos (machinima), screengrabs, and digital prints featuring the avatar of Jean-Michel Basquiat. As COLL.EO explain:"GRAND THEFT SAMO is
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Benjiamin Poynter's latest project is titled Story Generating Apparatus , a indie game project which was originally conceived as a Master's thesis. Poynter describes as "an exploratory narrative with definitive game mechanics to be implemented for the Oculus Rift hardware." This video showcases a hybrid