3D ANIMATION
Lawrence Lek, Gravity's Folly, 2015Real-time architectural simulation; Three portrait full HD screens; GTX Gaming PC.Variable duration A new, mesmerizing installation by Lawrence Lek, Gravity's Folly is "a virtual world based on the tradition of the architectural folly: classical garden pavilions whose only purpose was
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A new project by Ansh Patel, Trialogue is "(A)n inter-media game performance that transforms the process of game creation, playing and experiencing it into a playful tug-of-war of control, caught in a cultural and economic system which seeks to reinforce the status quo." Trialogue is a multi-media
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Peter Buczkowski, a designer from Bremen, Germany, investigates the relationship between work and play in his latest installation, Current Times, which he describes as an update to Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). A meditation of gamification and neoliberal notions of "efficiency", Current Times is about players being
GAME ART
Tommy Chain, Enduring Freedom, Mixed-media sculpture & video, Dimensions variable, video 4.05 min, HD video, stereo sound, Concrete, steel, extruded styrene, paint, c stand, TV, 2015 "Enduring Freedom is a discomix tableau that utilizes the form of a FPS computer game, a consumer media object with naïve political
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Dave Ball, I've Always Wanted to Drive Across America, 2016; (video documentation of) installation with playable 'Desert Bus' video game, accompanied by spoken-word soundtrack in which the artist describes from memory every overseas trip he has ever made. My comment is frankly redundant, but I'
GAME ART
J.B. Wejman, Une table modifiée pour une machine qui génère un monde qui génère un personnage qui génère un voyage, 2014. Installation view The title of this installation can be roughly translated as "A modified table for a machine that generates a world that generates a character that
3D ANIMATION
Tabor Robak, Dog Park, two-channel video, self generative computer animation, 2015 A former graphic designer who used to design the billboards in Times Square, Tabor Robak has elevated videogame aesthetics into a new visual language that is, at once, proudly one-dimensional and shiny-slick. Dog Park remediates the computer screen saver
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Tabor Robak, Free-To-Play, 4-channel HD Video, custom software 1 hour, dimensions variable With Free-to-Play (all works 2013), Brooklyn-based artist Tabor Robak emulates Candy Crush Saga's visual aesthetics to create a one-hour installation celebrating distraction, visual stimuli, and multi-tasking. Mimicking interactivity, Free-to-Play shows overlapping columns of game-like icons, collapsing
GAME ART
COLL.EO, The Fregoli Delusions, 2016, still frame from video installation There are not many machinima shot inside racing games. Here's one. Actually, five. "The Fregoli Delusions is a series of machinima shot within the world of the popular racing game Forza Motorsport 2 (Playground Games/Turn