GAME ART
Most Game Art focuses on the product, rather then the process. There are, however, a few exceptions. The always stimulating Kent Sheely provides a terrific documentation of one his most interesting projects, Day of Defeat. As you may remember, in October 2011, Sheeley updated his seminal series "DOD: A
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Chris Novello performs on illucia - a codebending instrument that connects different software applications via physical jacks and cables (lots' of them: 16 jacks, 6 knobs, 4 buttons, 4 switches, 4 variable brightness LEDs!, also available as a console). As Novello explains, "Codebending is the exploration of software
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Pauline Acalin, an artist from Costa Mesa, California, has paid a tribute to the 1983 Atari E.T. video game burial in a New Mexico landfill. The performance and resulting prints were shown at the 9-Bit Art Show at Yetee Gallery. Acalin's prints are on sale here. LINK
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In this 2011 project, French artist and founder of le negatif mag Ivi Top p investigates the notion of identity in the age of videogames. As he writes on his website: "The pursuit of ambiguity, few pixels, simple forms – opt for a minimalism of the virtual millenium we are
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My belated review of Eddo Stern's amazing solo show,"The World is Down: 10 Works by Eddo Stern", at Young Projects Gallery in Los Angeles is now online at WIRED ITALIA. It was by far the most compelling and intriguing show I saw last Summer. Text
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Axel Stockburger, White Transformer, 2011, single channel HD video. length: 7:15 min., color, sound, Edition of 5/+1, If you are visiting or living in Paris this December, don't miss the new “Virtual Topographics” exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. Axel Stockburger's "White Transformer&
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Robert F. Hammerstiel's "Instant Vacations I" (2007 – 2010) Born in 1957 in Pottschach, Austria Robert F. Hammerstiel lives and works in Vienna. "The series of images Instant Vacations I relates to the online computer game "Second Life". This is a game which offers
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"A live art gallery event to commemorate the completion of the [now] 900 hour game project In a Permanent Save State. This was the same day as the removal from the Apple store (Oct. 12 2012). A very thick atmosphere of censorship, politics, and art juxtaposed with the beauty
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Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Yayoi Kusama, machinima, playable car, 2012 The tenth automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project was appropriated by Yayoi Kusama's bots: "This project is an integral part of Kusama’s entrepreneurial art making collaboration for global brands, including KDDI Corporation (handbag-shaped cell phone), Lancome
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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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Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Barbara Kruger), machinima, playable car, 2012 The eight automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a 1988 BMW M5, was appropriated by Barbara Kruger's avatars "It should not come as surprise that women are blatantly underrepresented in the BMW Art Cars initiative. After all,
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"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