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Remediating Gus Van San’s eponymous movie Gerry (2002), Edwin Lo aka Auditory Scenes's Gerry (2016), a student of Ip Yuk Yiu, re-appropriates the original cinematic experience as a lonely journey in a virtual desert at night. Devoid of light, the work transforms the film narrative as purely
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foci + loci's new project (in progress) is titled Ways Of Sitting and refers to interactive, virtual objects, modeled after Marcel Duchamp's readymades. As Tamara and Chris explain, The conceptual import of these art historical objects sitting in a gallery already deny any affordance usually associated with
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Installation view of JODI: OXO, in the Lightbox Gallery at the Harvard Art Museums. Photo: R. Leopoldina Torres. © President and Fellows of Harvard College.JODI: OXOFebruary 7–April 23, 2018 Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Hours: Monday–Sunday10am–5pm Special event : GAMES JODI PLAY: April
GAME ART
Wow, this is just phenomenal: an early work by American artist, curator and scholar Copper Giloth connects video games to video art. [Incidentally, From Video Games to Video Art is also the subtitle of a recent anthology on machinima that I edited for Italian publisher Mimesis - I confess I
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Zhang Yue, Welcome, 2017, single channel video and Pen on black-and-white photograph, Videos | 20 × 28.5 cm × 60, 108 Video files | 2017 Chinese artist Zhang Yue has been experimenting with video games for a long time. In his recent video installation Welcome (2017), Zhang plays the role of a watcher
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VIDEOGAMES: DESIGN/PLAY/DISRUPT The Victoria and Albert Museum London Curated by Marie Foulston 8 September 2018 - 24 February 2019 Advance tickets: £18. Tickets go on sale today. The Victoria and Albert Museum will host one of the most ambitious exhibitions about videogames, art, and design of the last
GAME ART
From top to bottom:María Isabel Vargas, Floating Islands, acrylic on canvas.María Isabel Vargas, Clouds and flowers, acrylic on canvas.María Isabel Vargas, Mountains and trees, acrylic on canvas. For more than seven years, Colombian artist María Isabel Vargas painted video game landscapes, mostly taken from Nintendo's
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Roy Ananda, Thin Walls Between Dimension, installation, 2018 Photograph: Saul SteedRoy Ananda’s massive sculptural tribute to Dungeons and Dragons represents the chasm between an imagined world and a real one. The work premiered at the Adelaide Biennial of Australian art. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Ananda is a graduate
INSTALLATION
File under: slow (slower) machinima. Pedestrian, but non in that sense. A documentation of a walk inside a videogame that can be experienced with a virtual reality handset adorned with grass fibres and scenic lichen: an oxymoron that makes perfect sense. Peripatetic action in installation form. Bob Bicknell-Knight, Mountain Walk,
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JUSTIN WATSON: PERMADEATH UTAH MUSEUM of CONTEMPORARY ART 20 S West Temple Salt Lake City UT 84101 801.328.4201 A-I-R SPACE: JAN 26 – MAR 3 2018 OPENING RECEPTION: JAN 26 | 7 – 9 PM Justin Watson’s PERMADEATH investigates virtual and real-life communities under the guise of a game exploring
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Let's face it: with a slightly different conceptual framing, a White Cube context, and an enigmatic, cryptic, inaccessible artist statement, this could have become the Game Art equivalent of Douglas Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho (1993). Instead, it's just a missed opportunity. What if we