GAME ART
A fascinating series of video game art portraits of Austrian artists and musicians such as Winfried Ritsch (musician and artist), Guenter Meinhart (composer), Anita Leisz (artist), Ferdinand Schmalz (author and playwright) and more commissioned by Province of Styria (a state in the southeast of Austria) for the Landeskulturpreisgala made with/
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INFINITE GRAVEYARD digital video, color, sound, 666'“, 2020 (Russia) Created by Mikhail Maksimov VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Mikhail Maksimov first encountered videogames at the age of twelve. His first time was with Clive Townsend’s Saboteur! (1985) on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Subsequently, he fell in love with
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The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series at UC Berkeley presents Skawennati, "World Re-Building: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures" Thursday, November 5 | 5:00 — 6:30 PM | Online Skawennati will present the artwork and ideas of the Indigenously-determined research/
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FORWARD, UPWARD, IN ALL DIRECTIONS digital video (1980 x 1080), color, sound, 19’ 16”, 2018 (Ukraine) Created by fantastic little splash Introduced by Matteo Bittanti VRAL Both poetic and prosaic, Forward, upward, in all directions is a psychedelic trip inside VRChat, a free-to-play massively multiplayer online virtual reality
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Weaponizing Courtship is a virtual performance-for-video created by Angela Washko for Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich, Switzerland), 2020 as part of SITUATIONS / STRIKE, curated by Marco De Mutiis. As Washko explains, Weaponizing Courtship traces a brief history of how military vision and technology have been incorporated into computer games and
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SaveMe Oh does Diana Ross in this diabolic video about covidiocy. SaveMe Oh is just one of the several virtual alter-egos created by Oscar Wagenmans, a Dutch theatre director and actor. An eclectic figure inside and outside the virtual space, Wagenmans began his career as an actor in 1983
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Edwin Lo Crucifixion and Epiphany October 2 - October 15 VRAL Introduced by Luca Miranda vral.org A follow up to Those Who Do Not Remember The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It (2020) and The Rupture of Promised Land (Or We Can Never Get There) (2020), Crucifixion and Epiphany is
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ANIMAL CROSSING: ALL MINE digital video, color, sound, 7’ 05”, 2020 (United States) Created by Brent Watanabe VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Conspicuous consumption is the implicit goal of innumerable video games, but Animal Crossing: New Horizons is, by far, the most shameless celebration of capitalism. Released in March 2020,
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Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra has recently released Pixelation, an experimental machinima consisting of three Quake III fragmovies originally made in late 2010. As Veenstra explains, "All movies were created at the time to familiarize myself with the Q3MME mod and cinematic camera paths and not so much
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NVIDIA is introducing a new app called Omniverse Machinima which "enables gamers across the world to easily master the art of storytelling by using 3D objects, animated by NVIDIA AI technologies." Specifically, Through NVIDIA Omniverse, creators can import assets from supported games or most 3rd party asset libraries
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HOW TO FLY digital video, color, sound, 6’ 23”, 2020 (United Kingdom) Created by David Blandy How to Fly was originally presented by John Hansard Gallery in Southampton as part of the Digital Array programme supported by the Barker-Mill Foundation. VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Originally commissioned by John
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Colors Fade is a video clip created by Brazilian Estudio Bijari for the independent electronic trio Lumen Craft, an electronic pop trio from São Paulo, Brazil. Entirely filmed in virtual locations of Grand Theft Auto V, Colors Fade shows three different characters travelling through the landscapes of a dystopian future