DOCUMENTARY
"Let’s Play Max Payne" is the third installment of the DVD Dead Drop project by German artist Aram Bartholl, which will be unveiled at the Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, NY 11106) between October 30 –December 3, 2012. As Bartholl writes on his
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Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Gerhard Richter), machinima, playable car, 2012 The seventh automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a 2010 BMW M6, was developed by Gerhard Richter's assistants. "Gerhard Richter’s BMW Art Car is modeled after his latest opus, Strip (2011), a series of unique digital
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Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Gerhard Richter), machinima, playable car, 2012 The sixth automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a 1972 BMW 2002, was developed by Bansky's avatar: "Banksy loves cars. Or perhaps not. In 2004, the British graffiti-artist painted an abandoned automobile in a Somerset quarry near
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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
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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
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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
FILM
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