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GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of our ongoing investigation of the social history of this fascinating artworld. The goal is to illustrate how game-based art is being created, shared, and discussed today. Leonardo
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Leonardo Sang is a Brazilian graphic designer, photographer, and visual artist with a passion for gaming. Consider In The Backseat, a series of images taken "from the backseat" of car, "even if some of the cars doesn't even have backseats...". Manipulated to look as
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COLL.EO, Whac-A-Mole, 2015. Installation view, Incline Gallery, San FranciscoCOLL.EO's new installation comprises the following elements: * Whac-A-Mole (five ceramic figurines - 5 in tall each -, one wooden mallet 10 x 4 in and a wood pedestal, measuring 42 x 16 x 16 inches (H x W
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(Re)Sounding the City is an interactive performance on body language and the psycho-geography of urban spaces presented by Masters students at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts. The performance uses "Kinect for Windows to project the performer’s body onto the screen and visually convey the
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Spanish artist and professional voyeur Roc Herms (b. 1978) is a ludic post-photographer. His ongoing project Postcards from Home is a photographic essay based on his ethnographic explorations within the virtual world of Playstation Home, which Sony as recently as yesterday, March 31 2015, has all but eclipsed. Herm'
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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 this peculiar Artworld. Our goal is to document and discuss both the origins and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the way
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Invader, Space 2, International Space Station, Photos Samantha Cristoforetti (@astrosamantha) A small step for Art, a gigantic leap for Game Art. Invader's mosaic tiles as seen on the International Space Station. As the French artist wrote on his blog, I would have never imagined that my Space Invaders
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New York-based visual artist Erik Sanner's new project is titled Drawing and Painting Traffic Cones from Grand Theft Auto V (2014). A series of multiple, solo and collaborative works of various dimensions integrating new and old media, Drawing and Painting Traffic Cones from Grand Theft Auto V was
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Kim Laughton's "los_santos.obj" is a brilliant experiment in ludic post-photography. The artist took a series of photographs of Grand Theft Auto V's megalopolis, Los Santos and removed all the original textures, giving the urban landscapes an appearance of flatness. Considering that virtual
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A new project from COLL.EO (Colleen Flaherty and Mattteo Bittanti): Arthur Rimbaud in Liberty City, also known as Grand Theft Rimbaud. It is a replay of David Wojnarowicz’ (1954-1992) photographic series Arthur Rimbaud in New York (1978-1979) developed within the virtual spaces ofGrand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games, 2008)
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A fascinating example of post-photographic practices by Hungarian artist Loránd Szécsényi-Nagy (b. 1984) aka SZNL. 0.43 megapixel was created with a GameBoy camera, an add-on for Nintendo's 1989 portable console. The camera specs are anachronistic: 4 tone (grayscale) black and white images and a resolution of 128