GAME ART
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 artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the way
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Artwork: Modded version of Grand Theft Auto IV. Play as performance artist, architect, writer and philosopher Vito Acconci (b. 1940). Documentation: six videos of approximately 1 minute and 30 seconds of gameplay footage from Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games, 2008). Soundtrack: audio excerpt from Vito Acconci/Acconci Studio: Interiors.
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A variation of an interpretation of an event based on an original performance by Andrew Gardikis: "Super Mario world-record speedrun + Plumbing inspection footage = Frantic pipe exploration" (Kent Sheely). LINK : Kent Sheely Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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If you are lucky enough to be in Aix-en-Provence for GAMERZ #9, one of the hottest Game Art festivals in Europe - if not the world - don't miss the Performance Night at the École Supérieure d'Art from 7 pm till midnight. Here's the
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"What kind of process is a person running amok going through just before he is going to kill people? What kind of effects has a computer game like “Grand Theft Auto” on these people and the way they are observing reality? For his solo Fabien Prioville, former dancer of
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Photo (c) Fanny Candelaere Devant l'appareil enregistreur (Before the recording device ) is the title of Nicolas Tilly's latest performance focusing on facial architecture, motion scanning, simulation, and art as byproducts of digital gaming. For this project, the artist is wearing a paper mask made of 240
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This amazing performance features real human beings as they fight for their life in combat-game simulation, Game On. The last artist who did something as daring, creative, and bold was Eddo Stern, in 2001. As Australian artist Michaela Davies writes: " Game On uses electric muscle stimulation (EMS) to control
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Kent Sheeley's "READY FOR ACTION" puts "video game characters at the mercy of public transportation."In all cases, the soundtrack of the original game(s) (True Crime, Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne and many more) has been blended with audio captured while waiting for
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Following Bit, 2013 (Images courtesy of Coll.eo) FOLLOWING BIT is a new project by Coll.eo. "I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. [...] The way I thought of pieces like Following Piece was, there’s a city out there. I attend
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This is quite phenomenal: " Super Mario world-record speedrun + Plumbing inspection footage = Frantic pipe exploration. Speedrun completed by Andrew Gardikis, December 15 2011" (Kent Sheely). This would be a good time to (re)watch Henry Lowood's 2010 talk, "Players are Artists Too": LINK: Kent Sheely
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Peacekeeper [Love is a Losing Game] is part of Georgie Roxby Smith's Call of Duty Game Intervention series and is the follow up to Intervention. Here's the documentation: LINK: Georgie Roxby Smith related: interview Submitted by Matteo Bittanti:
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Georgie Roxby Smith, Peacekeeper [War Games] YouTube video collage of kids role-playing Call of Duty Multiplayer IRL (in real life), 2013 The eagerly awaited new body of work from Australian artist Georgie Roxby Smith is now available. The work, which references "the latest gun available in the multiplayer game