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FORWARD, UPWARD, IN ALL DIRECTIONS digital video (1980 x 1080), color, sound, 19’ 16”, 2018 (Ukraine) Created by fantastic little splash Introduced by Matteo Bittanti VRAL Both poetic and prosaic, Forward, upward, in all directions is a psychedelic trip inside VRChat, a free-to-play massively multiplayer online virtual reality environment created
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Weaponizing Courtship is a virtual performance-for-video created by Angela Washko for Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich, Switzerland), 2020 as part of SITUATIONS / STRIKE, curated by Marco De Mutiis. As Washko explains, Weaponizing Courtship traces a brief history of how military vision and technology have been incorporated into computer games and refers to
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SaveMe Oh does Diana Ross in this diabolic video about covidiocy. SaveMe Oh is just one of the several virtual alter-egos created by Oscar Wagenmans, a Dutch theatre director and actor. An eclectic figure inside and outside the virtual space, Wagenmans began his career as an actor in 1983 performing
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Edwin Lo Crucifixion and Epiphany October 2 - October 15 VRAL Introduced by Luca Miranda vral.org A follow up to Those Who Do Not Remember The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It (2020) and The Rupture of Promised Land (Or We Can Never Get There) (2020), Crucifixion and Epiphany
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the wulf. is an experimental collective featuring Lil' Jürg Frey, Liam Mooney (a.k.a. lmoo, 266437144916648607844), a composer, performer, and instrument maker based in Los Angeles and Isaac Schanklerand. Among other things, they make experimental music with video games. In their latest performance, they reimagined and reorchestrated the
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A Lament for Power: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy Tuesday 6 October 2020 2-7pm Art Exchange Art Exchange University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ United Kingdom The exhibition is open from Tuesday 6 October - Sat 14 November A Lament for Power is the outcome of a nine-month
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ANIMAL CROSSING: ALL MINE digital video, color, sound, 7’ 05”, 2020 (United States) Created by Brent Watanabe VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Conspicuous consumption is the implicit goal of innumerable video games, but Animal Crossing: New Horizons is, by far, the most shameless celebration of capitalism. Released in March 2020,
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Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra has recently released Pixelation, an experimental machinima consisting of three Quake III fragmovies originally made in late 2010. As Veenstra explains, "All movies were created at the time to familiarize myself with the Q3MME mod and cinematic camera paths and not so much
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Landscape photographer Pete Rowbottom creates real-life photos inspired by Death Stranding''s incredible in-game photo mode. LINK : Pete Rowbottom (Thank you Kieran!)
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HOW TO FLY digital video, color, sound, 6’ 23”, 2020 (United Kingdom) Created by David Blandy How to Fly was originally presented by John Hansard Gallery in Southampton as part of the Digital Array programme supported by the Barker-Mill Foundation. VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Originally commissioned by John Hansard
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Colors Fade is a video clip created by Brazilian Estudio Bijari for the independent electronic trio Lumen Craft, an electronic pop trio from São Paulo, Brazil. Entirely filmed in virtual locations of Grand Theft Auto V, Colors Fade shows three different characters travelling through the landscapes of a dystopian future
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Press release: ARS ELECTRÓNICA UMSA: ARTE Y ROBÓTICA ART GAMES When: Friday September 03, 5 pm Argentina (UTC -3 Where: Online event Link to access the event zoom (Friday September 03): Free with mandatory registration: "We invite you to participate in the fourth talk by gen.BA, the autonomous