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A new work by guerrilla collective Total Refusal in collaboration with artist and curator Jan-Wieger van den Berg created with/in Battlefield V. As the collective writes, Together with the local artist and operator of the Besienderhuis residency Jan-Wieger van den Berg, the media guerilla Total Refusal walks through the
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The Virtual Frontier digital video, color, sound, 3’, 2020, The Netherlands Created by Sjors Rigters vral.org The popular video game Minecraft exemplifies the inner contradictions of the digital age. Lauded by many pundits as a highly creative form of entertainment, the so-called “digital LEGO” is a powerful vessel for
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Roaming_Nowhere is a video art project created by Ilaria Pandini at Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, Italy. As Ilaria was playing Skyrim, she encountered an interesting bug that allowed her to walk in the sky and on the water. She decided to record her experience. As Ilaria writes,
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Sara Sadik. Ultimate Vatos: Force & Honneur Curated by Oriane Durand and Kristina Scepanski Westfälischer Kunstverein Rothenburg 30, 48143 Münster, Germany 26 March – 6 June 2022 Opening: Saturday, 26 March 2022, 6pm Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–7pm The exhibition rooms will be open from 11 am on this day. Press
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THE CONVENIENCE STORE digital video, color, sound, 6’ 23”, 2018, Sweden Created by Jonne Hansson April 8 - April 21 2022 VRAL.org The Convenience Store follows three recently former students who graduated from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden and later moved to the fictional city Los Santos
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The sixth edition of the MACHINIMA FILM FESTIVAL will take place in hybrid form, both online and in situ (Milan, Italy) between March 19 - 26 2023 Filmmakers and video artists engaged in the practice of appropriating, repurposing, and remixing video games are encouraged to send us their work for
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LuYangFalse AwakeningFebruary 12–June 19, 2022 Just Thinkers and Creators: May 5–June 16, lecture series Kunstpalais Palais Stutterheim Marktplatz 1 91054 Erlangen Germany press release Media artist LuYang (born in Shanghai, China) is currently taking the international art scene by storm with his groundbreaking productions. Technically sophisticated and aesthetically
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MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL MMXXII EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE FOR EVERYTHING TO STAY THE SAME March 21-27 2022 Milan, Italy and online The MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL MMXXII returns with a hybrid format —both online and in situ screenings — after a long disruption in the face of an unprecedented global crisis. The festival
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Kunst und Gesellschaft im Dialog I-III Digital video, color, sound, 13’ 51” (part I: 6’ 02”; part II: 4’ 17”, part III: 3’ 33”), 2009, GermanyCreated by Sebastian Blank, 2009March 4 - 17 2022Introduced by Matteo Bittantivral.org Sebastian Blank was born in 1977 in Saskatoon, Canada. He studied audiovisual
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STURTEVANT, Pacman, 2012, HD Video, 1′15″, color, sound. Video still. Courtesy of the Estate of STURTEVANT and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/Salzburg/London . WORLDBUILDING: GAMING & ART 15th anniversary exhibition of JSC Düsseldorf Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist June 5, 2022–December 10, 2023, JSC Düsseldorf Opening: Saturday, June
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FINTECH FOR THE PRECARIAT digital video (3840 x 2160), color, sound, 11’ 37”, 2017, United States video documentation of an immersive world application Created by Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, 2021 February 18 - March 3 2022 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org FinTech for the Precariat is an immersive urban environment
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36,000 feet Digital video, color, sound, 7’36”, 2021, Switzerland Created by Matthieu Cherubini February 4 - 17 2022 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org 36,000 feet is a video game set aboard a commercial plane flying over Afghanistan. As a passenger returning to his country from a