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Online: Game Art Events 2015 Review (Hand Eye Society)
At Hand Eye Society, Jim Munroe reviews some of the most interesting Game Art events of 2015. Read more here.
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Doc: Greg and Tim Andresen's "BEND_ A Circuit Bending Documentary" (2012)
A short documentary on circuit bending created by Greg and Tim Andresen of Greater Sirens with Nick Petterson and Thomas McColskey for one of their classes at Expression College. It features interviews with Dmitri SFC, Derek Sajbel (a.k.a. Dr. Rek, circuit bending documentarian), Erin and Mark Pauley (Sounds
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Game Art: Isla Hansen's "Cos-Mo Cap" (2015)
First of all, the full title of this piece si Cos-Mo Cap Astrodrome America: Omnidimensional Abdigital Countergravitational Ectotemporal Live System for Hyperterrestrial Synthesized Telecomputational Motion Capture and it was a live multiplayer game performed on stage (the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, last November, that is). Hansen explains: As players
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Game Art on the Web: Things to Do in Los Angeles (TTDILA)
In case you've missed Jonathan B.'s killer coverage of the latest Game Art events in Los Angeles, here's quick reminder: DIG (Digital, Interactive & Gaming) (Los Angeles, December 4th)Indiecade 2015 part one and part two...and the best coverage on the UCLA GameLab
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Event: Queerness and Video Games: Identity, Community, & Design (January 5, 2016, Stanford University)
Queerness and Video Games: Identity, Community, & Design Tuesday, January 5, 2016, 12:00 pm, Free and open to the public Lane Hall, RM2 (Rodriguez Lecture Hall) Stanford University Video games represent today's fastest-growing and arguably most expressive digital medium, rich with the potential to tell stories of
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Game Art: Jeremiah Diephuis' "Game Changer Suite" (2014-)
Under the direction of Jeremiah Diephuis, an instructor in the Media Technology & Design and Interactive Media programs at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg several students have developed Game Changer Suite, a collection of multiplayer games that encourage cooperative and competitive game playing. The gamers moving about
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Game Art: Hugo Arcier's "11 EXECUTIONS" (2015)
A new, powerful work by French artist Hugo Arcier recreates scenes of terror and violence within Grand Theft Auto V. With 11 Executions, Arcier stages brutal acts in which men and women of different ethnicities, social classes, and ages slaughter innocent people on the beach, on the highway, in the
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Game Art: Isla Hansen's "Long Reliever" (2015)
Long Reliever is a new work by Isla Hansen. A kinetic electronic sculpture featuring popular motion sensing game remote, motor, car lock actuator, microcontroller, popular game platform, infrared sensor bar, monitor, the piece "automatizes the motions necessary to play Wii Sports by capitalizing on the limited motion sensing capabilities
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Game Art: Rachel Rossin's "n=7 / Wake of Heat in Collapse" (2015)
Rossin's n=7 / The Wake of Heat in Collapse is a virtual reality simulation that employs the structure of side-scrolling gameplay to create an immersive, Oculus Rift-based experience. As Rossin writes, "Descending into a 3-dimensional Dantesque underworld, the viewer navigates a landscape of hacked architectural and video
GAME ART
Game Art: Rachel Rossin's "After GTA V" (2015)
Rachel Rossin, After GTA V (2015), oil on canvas, 60 x 78 inches (Photo: Tyler Milliner) Rachel Rossin (b. 1987) is a New York-based multi-media and installation artist whose practice aims to define new experiences regarding transcendence and perception. By synthesizing traditional art-making techniques with new technology, she examines the
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Event: LAN - Join game (November 26, 2015, Budapest, Hungary)
LAN - Join game curated by Bálint Ács Exhibition opening: 26 November 7 PM Music on the Exhibition opening: Double Score Dungeon Venue: Klauzál 13 Book Store and Contemporary Art Gallery Address: 1072 Budapest Klauzál tér 13. Opening hours: Friday: 12 PM -7 PM Saturday-Sunday 10 AM - 6 PM
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Game Art: Ermira Goro's "See You in Walhalla" (2006/2007)
An amazing project by Ermira Goro, See You in Walhalla is a meditation on new media, identity, videogames, and performance in a technology-saturated world. As Goro writes: A woman slightly obsessive and familiarly lonely plays a new video game – Walhalla. She creates her avatar and guides her through various journeys