3D ANIMATION
Tabor Robak, Dog Park, two-channel video, self generative computer animation, 2015 A former graphic designer who used to design the billboards in Times Square, Tabor Robak has elevated videogame aesthetics into a new visual language that is, at once, proudly one-dimensional and shiny-slick. Dog Park remediates the computer screen saver
3D ANIMATION
In this terrific 30+ minute interview, artist Tabor Robak discusses his practice with the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art in New York director Simon Castets. Robak talks about hishis creative process and his work, which was featured in The St. Petersburg Paradox exhibition. Commissioned for this exhibition, A* illustrates the hypothetical
DOCUMENTARY
In this short video interview produced by the Swiss Institute, Brooklyn-based artist Tabor Robak "discusses his personal relationship to gaming technology past and present, and describes how constructing complex digital objects and programming computer generated environments changes his way of looking at the world." (Swiss Institute) Tabor Robak
3D ANIMATION
Tabor Robak, Free-To-Play, 4-channel HD Video, custom software 1 hour, dimensions variable With Free-to-Play (all works 2013), Brooklyn-based artist Tabor Robak emulates Candy Crush Saga's visual aesthetics to create a one-hour installation celebrating distraction, visual stimuli, and multi-tasking. Mimicking interactivity, Free-to-Play shows overlapping columns of game-like icons, collapsing
GAME ART
A short video shot within Grand Theft Auto V by filmmaker and photographer Roland Spencer. LINK:Roland Spencer
GAME ART
Juliana Riska, Epuisement, digital video/machinima, 3' 51", 2015 Behind this clever meditation on walls and wall decoration by Juliana Riska, a French architecture student, lies a deep critique of capitalism and the mass production of uniqueness that informs its ideology: Le mur, symbole d'un aboutissement
GAME ART
Bob Bicknell-Knight, Simulated Ignorance, digital video/machinima, 17' 50", 2016 A new piece by prolific artist Bob Bicknell-Knight, a Fine Art student at Chelsea College of Arts. Simulated Ignorance focuses on the repetition and automation of game mechanics, and the illusion about the equivalence between real life and
ART GAME
L'art dans le jeu video - September 2015 - March 2016Art Ludique-Le Musée - 34, quai d'Austerlitz, 75 013 Paris, France This is another "the art of videogames ( tm )" kind of exhibition (à la Smithsonian ) which focuses on the contributions by Gallic designers to
ART GAME
HTNM Lecture — Mary Flanagan, "Critical Play" March 17, 2016 | 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Mary Flanagan, Critical Play, TedXDartmouth, 2010 "Games are older than most contemporary media forms, and artists have been using them for centuries as a form of criticality
ACADEMIC COURSE
Artist Federico Solmi is now teaching a class on videogames and art at Yale University, The Art of the Game: LINK : Federico Solmi
3D ANIMATION
Marjan Moghaddam, David & Goliath Still Can’t Fight, 1080HD Single Channel CGI Animation with Music, 14 Minutes, 2014 50" X 30" Inch. 46" LED HD Monitor, Gilt Frame, Headphones, computer, Media Player, or computer, and SD Card. (excerpt)"Conceived as a wall hung and animated
EVENT
Hito Steyerl: Factory of the SunFebruary 21–September 12, 2016MOCA Grand AvenueRequires AdmissionWhat is Contemporary? A Conversation with Hito SteyerlSunday, Feb 21, 20163pm "MOCA presents the U.S. premiere of Hito Steyerl’s landmark video installation Factory of the Sun. In this immersive work, which debuted at the 2015