MACHINIMA
Chris Howlett, Untitled Swarm, 2017. excerpt/preview only. Warning: stroboscopic, flashy colors. A new video piece by Australian artist Chris Howlett, Untitled Swarm, shows "different 3D models used as the generic game asset for representing the dual image of the player as either Terrorist or Rebel." The video
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We talked about Alan Butler's fascinating work Down & Out In Los Santos last May in a wide-ranging interview. Subtitled The Construct Moment, this new teaser, released by Les Rencontres D'Arles (The first International Festival of Photography in Arles, France), provides additional details about the ongoing/
3D ANIMATION
Tom Richardson, Reconstruction 1865, Single channel video projection and custom projection apparatus, 3 min. 45 sec., Black and white, stereo sound with intertitles., 4K animation (downscaled for projection)., Black curtain, custom screen, structure and lens, 2017 For the past year, Tom Richardson, a British artist living in Vancouver, Canada has
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Cory Arcangel, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds, 2005, installed at Art Basel 2017Installation, 2 hacked Nintendo Entertainment System game cartridges, 2 Nintendo Entertainment System game consoles, artist softwareMIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds is Arcangel's first work intentionally made to be an installation. It features
ART GAME
Curated by skot deeming and Martin Zeilinger Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing digital games and creative media practices. Presenting works across a dynamic range of exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, and workshops, Vector acts as a critical bridge between emergent digital platforms and new media
3D ANIMATION
Carlos Martorell aka Shoeg is a sound artist exploring videogame engine possibilities for visual discourses in between machinima, topography, human relationships, film work and pre-2k aesthetics. His latest work is a fan video for a friends' band called Desert. The song is "Sense Likes" (CSCN, 2017). The
ART GAME
Link Center for the Arts of the Information Age has just released How To Play Eddo Stern, a critical monograph on the avantgarde artist and game designer Eddo Stern written by critic, curator, and writer Domenico Quaranta and co-produced with Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel.The digital version can be
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Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, Finding Fanon 2, 2016, UHD Digital Video screenshot The Finding Fanon TrilogyWednesday 24th May 20177-9pm, Tate Modern, London The Finding Fanon trilogy (2015–17) by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy blends personal histories, pop culture and post-colonial theory to examine how we navigate the digital
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Australian artist Chris Howlett's new project is an ambitious machinima tetralogy titled Tutorialized I-IV. The first video piece, Tutorialized I: Guns & Ammo, has been released online in preview form. Howlett describe the project in these terms: These video works examine the complicit nature of online pedagogy and
GAME ART
A fascinating machinima by Bob Bicknell-Knight depicting a textual conversation between the artist and a bot within the architectural spaces, post-natural landscapes, and urban vistas of the Mass Effect video game series. The result - an interior monologue that doubles as an exercise in futuristic interior design - is captivating
3D ANIMATION
Alex Bonson (theninjacowboy) - The Silly Adventures of Mr. MochiMACHINIMA REPORT Wednesday May 3, 8pm Part of Comfort Film At Comfort Station 2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647 The first ever VGA screening of Machinima: works of animation created through the real-time graphics engines of video games. The evening
3D ANIMATION
Ian Cheng, Emissary Forks at Perfection, 2015–16. Collection Fondation Louis Vuitton. Courtesy of the artist; Pilar Corrias Gallery, London; and Standard (Oslo), Oslo. Ian Cheng EMISSARY FORKS featuring THOUSAND ISLANDS April 21–September 9, 2017 Espace Louis Vuitton München Maximilianstraße 2a 80539 Munich Germany Hours: Monday–Friday 12–7pm,