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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Vector Festival 2018 Topic: Born Digital Deadline: Saturday, December 23rd 2017 (midnight) Now entering its sixth year, Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented event showcasing artistic practices that engage critically with new media and digital game technologies. Presenting works across a dynamic range of exhibitions, screenings,
GAME ART
Martin Zefeldt, When You're Dead, You're Dead: Part 2, 2013, Acrylic on Canvas. 55 x 40 inches COPYRIGHT © 2017, MATHEW ZEFELDT. Painter Martin Zefeldt's (b. 1987 in Clayton, California) combines ancient Greek imagery with video game aesthetics borrowed from first person shooters like Castle
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Tomasz Wlazlak is a Polish multimedia artist whose work features video game imagery, motifs, and themes. His aesthetic is strongly influenced by 8-bit graphics. One of his latest works, Superheroes (2016), mixes sculptural elements like arcade game cabinets with interactive games inspired by classic coin-ops about historical figures like Sai
3D ANIMATION
Installation shot at Shape Up or Ship out, Breeze Creatives in Newcastle, Image by LeftLeg gallery. With The only thing lacking in this second body is the living flesh of the first body, Monica Rohtmaa aka Motsonian explores the paradoxes of corporeality in virtual spaces. This two channel video juxtaposes
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Tony Albert, Space Invaders, 2014, Vintage playing cards, aluminiumTony Albert was born in Australia in 1981. His practice combines text, video, drawing, painting and three-dimensional objects. Examining the legacy of racial and cultural misrepresentation, particularly of Australia’s Aboriginal people, Albert has developed a universal language that seeks to rewrite
GAME ART
David Jablonowski, Age of Empires, authorities and properties, 2016 aluminium, LED, screen, acetate sheets. Photo by Gert Jan van RooijBorn in Bochum in 1982, David Jablonowski lives and works in Amsterdam. In his practice, Jablonowski incorporates machines or technology usually used for exchanging information— e.g. scanners, tablets, projectors, printing
ANALOG
Verstärker means amplifier in German. This interactive sculpture design by Olaf Val consist of a PSOne controller, a light bulb, a microcontroller and a pedestal. As Val explains: In the works "Rückkoppler", "Automatic Loop Unit", and "Bubbles", I focused on the development of instruments,
ART GAME
Killer lecture by Volker Morawe and Tilman Reiff aka //////////fur//// a t KIKK Festival 2016 (Nov 03 - 05 2016, Wallonia - Namur, Belgium). Bio Since 2001 Volker Morawe and Tilman Reiff are creating multi-sensory artefacts related to the construction and social aspects of computer game culture. Their interactive installations/