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Cassie McQuater HALO May 14 - 27 2021 Introduced by Gemma Fantacci vral.org In these six animated paintings presented as a single channel video, the artist reenacts situations and motifs from the first-person shooter series Halo and the erotic videogame Dream Stripper. Conceived as a dynamic, virtual collage, HALO
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The Fields of Algorithms Curated by David Blandy Thursday 13 May 2021, 8PM Online event The One Minutes Series for May and June explores how video games turn gamers into filmmakers with The Fields of Algorithms, a mixtape of poetic machinima, curated by David Blandy. The British artist will stream
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Florian Hofnar Krepčik Is it real Love? Of course not! April 30 - May 13 2021 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org Is it real love? Of course not! is a unique film entirely shot with/in Driver: San Francisco, a 2011 video game by Ubisoft set in the Bay
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Press release: The One Minutes Series of May/June is ‘The Fields of Algorithms’ and is curated by David Blandy. ‘The Fields of Algorithms’ is a mixtape of poetic machinima lasting exactly one minute. The 23 selected videos were sent in from Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United
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LAN PARTY NOTES digital video (1280 x 720), sound, color, 10’ 20”, 2013 (United Kingdom) Created by Mateus Domingos VRAL Introduced by Riccardo Retez LAN Party was an installation originally created by Vanilla Galleries in collaboration with Arc-Vel and Dexter and Finbar Prior, at the Two Queens art gallery in
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In this short machinima, Ewan Wilson examines the notion of asphyxia via Tomb Raider (1996). This work was originally featured in the second issue of video art magazine Emerge, As Wilson writes: Two of the most common symptoms of anxiety and stress are shortness of breath and feelings of suffocation.
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Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra continue his bold investigation/reinvention of Quake III Arena (id Software, 1999) with another machinima (1920 x 816) that redefines the very boundaries of the medium. With IGNIIITION, Veenstra portraits a 1-vs-1 'Tournament' style duel within Quake III Arena, representing the three
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DEAR EIDOLON digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 5’ 58”, 2020 (United States of America) Written, filmed, narrated, and scored by Carson Lynn April 2 - April 15 2021 VRAL Introduced by Luca Miranda In a place where players and avatars coexist in apparent harmony, noticing the constraints and
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The fifth edition of the MACHINIMA FILM FESTIVAL will once again take place at IULM University (Milan, Italy) during the Milano Digital Week, which celebrates the driving forces that are reshaping art, culture, and technology of Italy’s most vibrant city. Filmmakers and video artists engaged in the practice of
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Eddie Lohmeyer Unstable Aesthetics Game Engines and the Strangeness of Modding Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 Description: Throughout the 1990s, artists experimented with game engine technologies to disrupt our habitual relationships to video games. They hacked, glitched, and dismantled popular first-person shooters such as Doom (1993) and Quake (1996) to engage players
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REASONABLE_3 digital video (1920 x 1080), sound, color, 3’ 33”, 2020 (United States/Italy) Created by COLL.EO VRAL February 12 - February 25 2021 Introduced by Random Parts Volatile. Fiery. Flaming. Heated. In flames. Sizzling. Gleaming. Alight. Ignited. Automobile. Car. Wagon. Truck. Van. Law Enforcement. Siren. Horn. Warning.
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True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films A new online series on e-flux Video & Film, programmed by Lukas Brasiskis The series will include a live discussion with some of the participating artists and other guests (date to be announced). Online, various dates Part One | Simulations and (Hyper)Reality