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ZO Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 7’ 21”, 2017 (United Kingdom) Created by Bob Bicknell-Knight, 2017 VRAL December 31 2020 - January 14 2021 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti An artist and an internet bot called Zo converse on the fictional social media app Kik. Their exchange is punctuated
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Player of Beings December 12, 2020–March 28, 2021 Curator: Qiu Zhijie, Chen Baoyang Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum No.436 East Yonghe Road, Jing'an District 200072 Shanghai China Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm T +86 21 5690 0009 info@mcam.io mcam.io press release Human beings
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MY OWN LANDSCAPES Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 18, 2020 (France) Created by Antoine Chapon, 2020 VRAL December 11 - December 24 2020 Introduced by Luca Miranda Warfare is being gamified. The American army has been recruiting soldiers through video games since the early zeroes: America’s Army
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UNREAL CITY An exhibition curated by Acute Art and Dazed Media Tuesday 8th December 2020 - Tuesday 5th January 2021 London Unreal City is London’s biggest public festival of AR art which features 36 sculptures arranged as a walking tour along the River Thames Organised by Acute Art and
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ARCHITECTURE WITH GAMES IN THE TITLE Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 18' (3 x 6'), 2020 (Croatia) Created by Mario Mu, 2020 VRAL November 27 - December 10 2020 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Architecture with Games in the Title focuses on the convergence between spatial memory
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Jordy Veenstra, Hyper Reality, 2020, color, sound, 16' 15" (The Netherlands) Artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra's latest project is a fascinating mix of ultra-modern and retro-future. Hyper Real is not only a homage to late Nineties online gaming but also a very contemporary critique of visual
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The Overkill Festival Opening: Friday November 27th 2020, 19:00 Festival: Friday November 27th - Sunday December 6th 2020 Time Schedule: www.theoverkill.nl The might collective Sickhouse - founded by Aike Lutkemuller and Marie Janin - is organizing The Overkill Festival, a smosgaboard of game-related content and events comprising
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CHEATIMERISM Digital video, color, suond, 14’ 55’’, 2020 (Italy) Created by Luca Miranda VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti By reconfiguring the spaces of Grand Theft Auto V, Cheatimerism investigates the political and economic implications of consumption and its side effects, including concrete waste, virtual surrogacy, and planned obsolescence. This machinima
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A fascinating series of video game art portraits of Austrian artists and musicians such as Winfried Ritsch (musician and artist), Guenter Meinhart (composer), Anita Leisz (artist), Ferdinand Schmalz (author and playwright) and more commissioned by Province of Styria (a state in the southeast of Austria) for the Landeskulturpreisgala made with/
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INFINITE GRAVEYARD digital video, color, sound, 666'“, 2020 (Russia) Created by Mikhail Maksimov VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Mikhail Maksimov first encountered videogames at the age of twelve. His first time was with Clive Townsend’s Saboteur! (1985) on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Subsequently, he fell in love with
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Great video essay on game phot ography by eurothug4000, which quotes, among other things Eva and Franco Mattes's 13 Most Beautiful Avatarsand Leo Sang's Virtual Reality Photography project which was featured in the TRAVELOGUE exhibition in 2016. Also: check out the incredibly detailed The Last of
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The Garden of Earthly Delights is an online chatroom for the creatures living within the world of Age of Empires II created by SCRNPRNT, that is Neilson Koerner-Safrata (Virtual Virtual Reality, Dustnet, Irrational Exuberance among others) and his twin brother Milan (Heart, Puzzlegami, Alien Garden among others). Gloriously absurd, like