ART GAME
Curated by Enrique Salmoiraghi, Juega bajo tu propio riesgo. Videojuegos en clave pandémica (Play at your own risk. Pandemic video games) is an international exhibition bringing together the work of artists who use the language of the video game to address emerging issues in contexts of isolation, distancing,and uncertainty.
EVENT
Gweni Llwyd and Owen Davies Becoming a Legend May 28 - June 10 2021 Introduced by Luca Miranda vral.org The practice of customizing characters and assets in video games has a long tradition within vernacular as well as avant-garde subcultures. In fact, artists have often pursued this route to
ANALOG
Mak Ying Tung 2, Home Sweet Home, 2019 (installation shots De Sarthe) Home Sweet Home (2019-) is a series are triptychs on canvas created by Mak Ying Tung 2 through a fascinating process. First the artist appropriated and modified images from The Sims and then she asked three separate painters
BOOK
In 1987, Italian photographer Fabio Ponzio embarked on a photographic odyssey across Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. He began his journey in Istanbul, Turkey and later made his way through Romania, Hungary, and other countries, equipped with a Leica, three Nikons and 100 rolls of film, as the
ACADEMIC COURSE
Press release: The WORLD AT PLAY summer school is a part of a Voluptas research project into the intersection between game design, architecture and ludic pedagogy. “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work
ART GAME
LAN PARTY NOTES digital video (1280 x 720), sound, color, 10’ 20”, 2013 (United Kingdom) Created by Mateus Domingos VRAL Introduced by Riccardo Retez LAN Party was an installation originally created by Vanilla Galleries in collaboration with Arc-Vel and Dexter and Finbar Prior, at the Two Queens art gallery in
3D ANIMATION
Image: Keiken, Battle of Reality, 2021, Commissioned by Daata and The Bass Image: Bob-Bicknell Knight, We've been here before, 2021, Commissioned by Daata and The Bass We’ve Been Here Before, 2021 is a new CGI film by Bob Bicknell-Knight, concerning the boundaries between public and private space,
COLLABORATION
Alan Kwan and Allison Yang Jing recently completed the experimental game Forgetter in collaboration with DSL COLLECTION. In the game the player works for a tech company that cleans all the trauma or dark memories in dead artist brains, and then recycles and sells these artistic brains to parents who
ANIMATION
Dyson & Womack, public art curators, are working with the State of California to select artists and artworks to be included in the Digital Art Call for Entries for the Public Art CA collection. Public Art CA is a contemporary art collection commissioned for the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA)
ART GAME
Michael Samyn, Compassie, 2021 (screenshot) Artist, designer, and professor Michaël Samyn has just released Compassie, an artistic software program for tethered VR. Compassie is a virtual reality diorama with the theme of pietà. The player takes the place of the holy virgin holding the lifeless body of Christ. And she
3D ANIMATION
Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra continue his bold investigation/reinvention of Quake III Arena (id Software, 1999) with another machinima (1920 x 816) that redefines the very boundaries of the medium. With IGNIIITION, Veenstra portraits a 1-vs-1 'Tournament' style duel within Quake III Arena, representing the three
3D ANIMATION
DEAR EIDOLON digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 5’ 58”, 2020 (United States of America) Written, filmed, narrated, and scored by Carson Lynn April 2 - April 15 2021 VRAL Introduced by Luca Miranda In a place where players and avatars coexist in apparent harmony, noticing the constraints and