COLLABORATION
Lea Van Hall, There are some things about places you just don’t realise until you leave them, 2024 ceramic, video game; sound: Éléa Brando, typography:Tigran Saakyan, installation view; photo: HFBKLea Van Hall, There are some things about places you just don’t realise until you leave them, 2024
3D ANIMATION
Leyuan Li, Half Day Tour, video installation, 2024, installation view, photo: HFBK Hamburg Leyuan Li, Half Day Tour, video installation, 2024, screenshot, photo: HFBK Hamburg Half Day Tour is a video installation by Leyuan Li, derived from a game he developed and recorded. In this work, the artist assumes the
GAME ART
Rabu Rabu digital video, colour, sound, 18’ 18”, 2024, Hong Kong. created by Hou Lam Tsui vral.org Rabu Rabu (meaning lovey-dovey in Japanese) reimagines and subverts the conventions of Japanese dating simulation games, known for their focus on interactions with attractive young female characters. Instead, it presents a fictional
EVENT
Lisa Broms and Vanja Ivarsson: Save Points Galleri Redan February 7 - March 15 2025 Amiralsgatan 9, Malmö, Sweden Lisa Broms and Vanja Ivarsson, two Malmö-based artists, operate within a post-internet aesthetic that fuses digital iconography with a tactile, painterly sensibility. Their work is characterized by acidic color palettes, fluid,
3D ANIMATION
Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices curated by Rafael Fajardo January 9 - February 23 2025 Vicki Myhren Gallery 2121 E. Asbury Ave. Denver, CO 80210 press release The Vicki Myhren Gallery is proud to present Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices, curated by DU’s own Rafael Fajardo, Professor of Emergent Digital Practices.
CONCEPTUAL
Awaiting Oblivion digital video, colour, sound, 20’ 23”, 2024, Russia created by Natalie Maximova World premiere vral.org Awaiting Oblivion interrogates the collapse of simulated reality in The Last of Us Part II, uncovering spaces where the boundaries between representation and existence dissolve. As the digital world fractures into glitches
3D ANIMATION
𝔃𝓮𝓻𝓸𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 Student Final Work from ART 250: Between Worlds, Video Games and the Physical @ University of Illinois Chicago Friday, January 24, 2025 6:00 PM 9:00 PM VGA Project Lab 2233 South Throop Street #843 Chicago, IL, 60608 United States curated by Jared Kelley-Hudgins, UIC ART 250 Instructor Eleanor Schichtel,
EVENT
Platform 101 Vol. 05: Hidden Geometry & Glitch Art Rischee 29 Art Gallery No.31, Aghabozorgi Street, Fereshteh Street, Tehran, Iran Friday, January 17, 2025 to Thursday, April 17, 2025 press release The latest edition of Platform 101, Vol.05: Hidden Geometry & Glitch Art, will be hosted in the
ARCHITECTURE
Third Call is an innovative art-game developed by the VOLNA artists collective, created as part of the ongoing renovation of the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Germany. Commissioned for the theater’s 2025 season and spearheaded by its newly established Digital Theater division, the project offers players a unique opportunity to
ANALOG
Ivelina Ivanova's Low Poly Fever Dream Curated by Andreya Gandeva and Vasil Vladimirov November 22 - December 15 2024 KO-OP 17 Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia Bulgaria press release Low Poly Fever Dream merges digital nostalgia with social critique in a multimedia project. At its heart is Bot Brother,
3D ANIMATION
Brent Watanabe: One Tethered Bird The Behnke Family Gallery at Cornish1077 Lenora StreetSeattle, WA 98121Jan 17th - Feb 21 2025Brent Watanabe's upcoming solo show at The Behnke Family Gallery at Cornish will include work covering the past two decades, including his Grand Theft Auto interventions (San Andreas Deer
3D ANIMATION
Shimmer digital video, color, sound, 11’, 2024, United Kingdom created by Andy Hughes vral.org Shimmer creatively combines photographic assemblage, archival footage, and video game imagery, to interrogate the vitality and agency of materials, positioning pollution and climate change as pivotal concerns while destabilizing the dichotomy between animate and ostensibly