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Tash Tully is a third year Illustration student at the University of Brighton, UK. She's also a talented machinimaker. Her short video Absence created with/within Grand Theft Auto V, is incredibly touching. A meditation of loneliness and anomie inspired by a quote from Theodore Roosevelt ("Absence
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The latest project from Japanese collective tha ltd., currently comprising Kentaro Yama, Yoshinori Nishimura, Sachi Okuda, Koji Takahashi, and Yoko Shiga, is titled Humanity. It's a mesmerizing game about crowds and crowd behaviors developed with Unity. This short video preview looks like a crazy mix of Lemmings, the
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Carlos Martorell is a sound artist exploring videogame engine possibilities for visual discourses in between machinima, topography, human relationships, film work and pre-2k aesthetics. His latest project is titled Silicone and was produced during a residency at Oudeis (Le Vigan/Ganges), France promoted by Eufònic and Institut Ramon Llull. Silicone
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The Mythic Being in Liberty City, the fourth in a series by CONCRETE PRESS dedicated to COLL.EO's Grand Theft Auto IV interventions, is now available in a limited edition of 99 copies. The book features 144 pages of text, illustrations in B&W and color, many
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The fifth edition of Game On! will take place at the Cultural Center of Science in Buenos Aires, Argentina from December 9 until the 17. The exhibition features 30 artworks from 23 different countries including Argentina, France, Portugal, United States, Scotland, Brazil, England, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Poland, Israel, Switzerland and
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Federico Solmi's new work, The Great Farce, will be installed on the Frankfurter Schauspiel and the Opera in Berlin and will remain visible for the entire duration of the 2017 B3 Biennial of the Moving Image. Described as a biting parody of contemporary world history, The Great Farce
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Vdrome is showing David Blandy's stunning video Child of the Atom until December 7, 2017. Click on the image to watch it now. And don't miss the interview with Nick Curries. Here's an excerpt: This screening is related to Blandy's solo show
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Here's another brilliant review of the recent 2017 UCLA GAME FESTIVAL, courtesy of The Daily Bruin. Click on the image to read the article:
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Splendid coverage of the 2017 UCLA GAME FESTIVAL by Jonathan Bilski. at Things to Do in Los Angeles. Photos courtesy of the UCLA DMA instagram I believe that an art exhibition/happening/event is successful when it does not provide easy answers but raises interesting questions and prompts the viewer
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Press release Beautiful new worlds Virtual realities in contemporary art November 11, 2017–April 8, 2018 Zeppelin Museum Seestraße 22 88045 Friedrichshafen Germany Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–5pm The introduction of virtual reality has led to a pictorial revolution that is radically changing not only our perception of images, but
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A fascinating research by Patrick Le Mieux becomes a video essay that rewrites the history of Game Art: "In didactic texts, artist talks, personal websites, and private interviews Cory Arcangel describes Super Mario Clouds as “an old Mario Brothers cartridge which I modified to erase everything but the clouds.
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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