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All images @ Josh Harle Josh Harle, a multi‐disciplinary PhD candidate researching Tactical Space through an Australian Research Council Linkage grant, has created a photo‐realistic recreation of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art as a playable video game. As Harle explains: "Visitors to the studio can check out
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This is quite different. Ice cream as a weapon of mass destruction. Digital games as weapons of mass distraction. Mission 67 by Wall Pushers is a peculiar FPS set in Palestine. The "67" in Mission is an obvious reference to the 1967 Six Day War aka 1967 Arab-Israeli
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A video excerpt from Impossible Backgrounds, "an improvised audiovisual performance for live electronics, sitar and game visuals" by Bob Meanza (live electronics), Filipe Dias De (sitar), and Marco Mendeni (Game Art visuals) recorded on 08/08/12 at Sowieso, Berlin.For additional information about Mendeni's practice
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Scott Kildall's new project is titled Player Two, developed during a rotoscoping workshop. As he explains, "Using my Android phone, I had a friend shoot a gesture of me acting like a video game fighter. Then, I isolated 24 frames of this action and used Photoshop to
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Marc Owen's Avatar Machine - first mentioned on GameScenes five years ago - "replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. The system potentially allows for a diminished
ARCADE
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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A 25-minute video of Marco Mendeni's live piece that took place in Berlin on January 29, 2013. "I’m not playing" is an audiovisual performance the investigates the relationship between the videogame medium and the culture of simulation in the digital era. As Mendeni writes, "
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Australian artist Georgie Roxby Smith's latest project features Lara Croft performing a series of mundane activities. As Smith writes, "[F]or the first time in 2013 was re-imagined by a female writer, deeply conscious of finding a balance between “a man with boobs” and exploring areas of
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By far, one of the most exciting Game Art projects of the year. related: Ready for Action #1, Ready for Action #2, Ready for Action #3, Ready for Action #4, Ready for Action #5, Ready for Action #6, Ready for Action #7, Ready for Action #0 Bonus Round LINK : Kent
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Austin-based artist Lauren Klotman (b. 1987) describes GODOT64 as a "A play in two acts spread out across 3 games" which "takes the text of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and transposes it across the platform of a videogame. Consisting of 3 hacked super mario
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During the day, Denver based artist Chris Carlson works at his 3D design company. At night, he creates works influenced by game-aesthetics (not necessarily digital), like this incredible time-lapse video series based on Tetris. His preferred mediums are paint, pastel chalk and graphite.LINK: Chris Carlson related Tetris-art: one, two
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This video shows a livecoding performance by Dave Griffiths in which Atari's Missile Command is slowly rewritten to be a piece of abstract machinima. Griffiths lives in Falmouth, Cornwall. LINK : Dave Griffith Submitted by Matteo Bittanti