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Claire Hentschke, Driver On The Highway, digital image, 2017 Claire Hentschke, Avatar Above The Sea, digital image, 2017 Hentschker captures the sublime using photographic practices in gaming, and specifically in Grand Theft Auto V. At the same time, she is remediating the medium of painting: In this series of works,
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Trevor Raab's photographic exploration of Grand Theft Auto V is collected in the book Interdimensional. Trevor Raab is an artist working primarily in photography. He received a BFA in Photography with a minor in Visual Culture from Rochester Institute of Technology. He is currently located in Philadelphia. LINK
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Press release:SCREEN KNOWLEDGES Opening Reception November 11, 2017 6-11 PM ETA 5630 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles CA 90042 Curated by Eron Rauch and Kent Sheely Join us for Screen Knowledges, an exhibition at ETA of art about video games, photography, and memory in the digital era. From screenshots,
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The upcoming racing game GT Sport for the Playstation 4 includes a powerful in-game photography tool, Scapes. As I wrote elsewhere, gamers don't play this kind of games to sublimate their death drive, but rather too take pictures. The good news is that Scapes looks like the Canon
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We talked about Alan Butler's fascinating work Down & Out In Los Santos last May in a wide-ranging interview. Subtitled The Construct Moment, this new teaser, released by Les Rencontres D'Arles (The first International Festival of Photography in Arles, France), provides additional details about the ongoing/
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Sylvain Entressangle, Video Gaming Landscape, 2013. French photographer and musician Sylvain Entressangle (b. 1970) works with analog, digital, and virtual cameras. Among other things, he produced an extensive body of work shooting urban environments in video games such as Mafia 2 and then manipulating the screenshots with a black and
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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 artworld. Our goal is to document and discuss both the origins and evolution of a phenomenon that
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Madrid-based photographer Javier Laspiur documented the history and evolution of game controllers with a series of photographs that he took in 2014. Laspiur photographed himself, sitting on a brown sofa, with each console he played over the years, beginning with Teletenis in 1983 and ending, three decades later, with the
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"What is real, what is artificial? The border between the two is beginning to fade. In the visual language of the advertising industry, the border between real photography and digitally calculated models is almost indistinguishable. This also applies to the film industry, where CGI (computer generated imagery) seamlessly blends
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Arcana or Finding Context is a fascinating attempt to contextualize, map, and identify the relationship between different spaces of play. Eron Rauch is a masterful cartographer of the imaginary, a flaneur of the arcana, and an excellent ethno-photographer. Currently based in Los Angeles, Rauch received his M.F.A. in
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Robert Wetzer's Lost Worlds is an ongoing photographic exploration of "natural" video game landscapes such as "lush rainforests, icy mountain ranges, rushing waterfalls and barren deserts." As the artist notes on his website, what "used to be cardboard backdrops" have now become
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A merican artist Justin Berry is a prolific and talented game photographer. His series of virtual landscapes that began in 2012 is complemented by interesting game-based installations, including Offduty (2014), a three-channel video installation which appropriates the popular first person shooter Call of Duty by Activision. Berry's set-up