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Sheely's 2009 installation injects videogame logic into RL: "In many video games, when players have taken damage from enemies, they can visit strategically-placed first aid stations to receive instant medical treatment, and walk away without a scratch. Health Station translates this “healing” ability into the real world,
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Ottawa-based Andrew O'Malley is a multi-disciplinary artist and engineer working with algorithms and code to create interactive artworks responsive to sensors and data linked to remote environments and the immediate surroundings. With Weather Channel (2012), O'Malley appropriates and reconfigures Cory Arcangel's Super Mario Clouds
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Courtesy of GAMERZ, Quentin Destieu and Bastien Vacherand's G-Man le miroir situationniste combines virtual reality (via Oculus Rift), Guy Debord, and Half-Life. This interactive installation allows visitors to perform through the avatar "body" of the G Man, a popular character from Valve's Half-Life game.
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Early example of Game Art from the mid-Nineties, courtesy of new media artist Tony Patrickson: "A computer game and video installation designed for the 1995 Live Art Week at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin. The installation functioned as an interactive environment in which the player of the game
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Franz Milec's new work is a playful take on "Conway's Game of Life and its evolutionary principles with its philosophical and religious predecessors" (Milec). Described as an art installation - the software runs on a tablet set on a vertical stand (hence the 2001-inspired
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One of the most interesting Game Art exhibitions of the year is entirely dedicated to football aka soccer. Titled Futbol: The Beautiful Game, the new show at the LACMA (February 2 - July 20, 2014) features a killer list of players, pardon, artists who have explored the aesthetics, politics, and