BOOK
Façonnage Éditions has announced the release of Angelo Careri’s first book, Grand Theft Auto – Crime et architecture, a French-language long essay devoted to one of the most commercially dominant, culturally abrasive, and theoretically productive videogame series of the last three decades. Published in the Everglades collection, the book
EVENT
On Tuesday 28 April and Wednesday 29 April, between 19.00 and 23.00 CEST, Jordy Veenstra will livestream Live Machinima Production in Grand Theft Auto V, a free two-part event on both YouTube and Twitch dedicated to the making of machinima in Los Santos. Veenstra, co-author with
GAME ART
What stays with you is the noise. The image? Not so much. After all, most of the screen is occupied by negative space: a 16:9 slab of black, as if the monitor had nodded off, punctured by a few pale specks that resolve, if you pay attention, into bodies.
MODDING
Press ‘H’ near Lago Zancudo and Grand Theft Auto V starts to behave strangely. The mission markers, heists and side quests recede; instead, an audio essay fades in and will not go away. The game’s camera steers you through reeds and mud, scripted events punctuate the trip, and a
PAINTING
For the 2023 exhibition Re_spawn, also at The Hole, Zefeldt revisited GTA V and GTA Online after several years of technical and conceptual refinement. Here, the emphasis falls more explicitly on avatar identity and the blurring of realities. The show consists of paintings drawn from sessions in which his
PAINTING
Mathew Zefeldt’s paintings arise from an unusual kind of studio: the open world of Grand Theft Auto V. The artist uses the fictional state of San Andreas as a mobile image-bank, roaming the environment with an avatar modelled on himself and waiting for “poetic moments” to appear: spectacular
EVENT
Precursing digital video, color, sound, 11’ 13”, 2023, Canada/United Kingdom created by Nina Davies September 12—25 2025 vral.org Precursing is a video work which was commissioned by Matt’s Gallery for her show Precursing in 2023. The video work presents a fictional narrative narrated by —software engineers
GAME ART
Brooklyn-based photographer and film director Casey Brooks has recently completed a photo essay on Grand Theft Auto V. Titled You Only Live Forever, it looks like this LINK : Casey Brooks Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (via Kotaku)