GAME ART
Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Julian Opie), machinima, playable car, 2012 The fifth automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a game-like 1997 M3, was developed by Julian Opie's avatars: "Julian Opie’s BMW Art Car is the latest offspring of his seminal series Imagine You Are Driving. The
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Skot Deeming aka mrghosty is the mastermind behind "Vector: Game + Art Convergence", a 4 day Game Art festival and symposium scheduled for February 2013 in Toronto, Canada. As Skot writes, the event was "borne out of a need for a more critical dialogue in the popular discourse
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Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Damien Hirst), machinima, playable car, 2012 The fourth automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a brightly colored 850 CSi, was developed by Damien Hirst' avatars: "Hirst’s deep love for BMW comes as no surprise. He is reportedly Britain’s richest living artist. Hirst
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Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Cy Twombly), machinima, playable car, 2012 The third car in the ongoing CARJACKED project was developed by Cy Twombly's avatars "In 1971,BMW asked Twombly to decorate a lush 3.0 CLS BMW as part of the German carmaker initiative, Art Cars. The
GAME ART
Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Piet Mondrian), machinima, playable car, 2012 The second car in the ongoing CARJACKED project, created by Piet Mondrian's avatars. "Piet Mondrian’s “Composition 10” (1939-1942) is the main inspiration behind Coll.eo’s second digital BMW Art Car. In an act of creative
GAME ART
Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Jackson Pollock), machinima, playable car, 2012. "CARJACKED is a set of digital BMW cars created with the Livery editor of Forza Motorsport 4 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Game Studios, 2011, Xbox 360) by Coll.eo. These cars are the digital counterparts of the ongoing BMW
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Phil Solomon; Empire, 2008-2012. HD video, 48 minutes One of the most exciting Game Art events of the Fall: Phil Solomon's screening of Empire (2008-2012) at the New York Film Festival in the Free Views from the Avant-Garde section. Solomon will be on the scene to present and
INTERVIEW
GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this fascinating artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the
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Another intriguing project by foci + loci aka Tamara Yadao and Chris Burke. The dynamic duo from NY describes the Bal(l)ade - currently in progress - in these terms: "Bal(l)ade is an expansion upon a work in progress of the same name, presented at The Brick
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Georgie Roxby Smith, "Uncomposed (after Titian after Giorgione), 3D machinima, video, found image, found sound, 2012 "Made specifically for Composite at Gallery One Three Uncomposed (after Titian after Giogione) deconstructs Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus, itself a composite, the landscape and sky being completed by Titian following Giogione’s
GAME ART
Kenton Sheely, dust 2 dust, machinima, 2012 There are no "real" characters in the virtual fighting arenas of Counter-Strike. The player is a gun. The gun is a player. Sheely's latest performance illustrates the cycle of life and death in the most iconic CS map. The
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Game Play Festival 2011, The Brick Theater Williamsburg Photo: Marjorie Becker/chiptography.com via foci + loci foci + loci is Tamara Yadao and Chris Burke, a Brooklyn based game art duo. They have performed/exhibited at Babycastles, Diapason Gallery, Handmade Music at Culture Fix, Front Room Gallery, Secret Project Robot, The