GAME ART
Antonin Fourneau explores the uncanniness of machine play with Video Ghostpad, a 2009 sculptural installation featuring a self-playing game controller. As Fourneau writes, The joystick moves in all the directions at different speeds. Movements are sometimes fast and furious. this gesture evoking our memories of games. we can imagine despite
3D ANIMATION
Rindon Johnson investigates the notion of representation in video games by using 2K Games' NBA 2k16' facial recognition tool. The result is Away with You, a critical study of the ideologies embedded within the in-game editor. As Johnson writes: NBA 2k16's facial recognition software can not
ART GAME
Artist and researcher at Gothenburg University Arne Kjell Vikhagen has just completed his dissertation about game art.Title: When Art Is Put Into Play: A Practice-based Research Project on Game Art Language.English Keywords: Game Art, Computer Games, Video Games and Art, Play, Artistic Research, New Media Art ISBN: 978-91-982421-5-7
BOOK
I'm happy to announce the release of my new book, Machinima, dal videogioco alla videoarte [Machinima. From video game to video art]. Published by Mimesis Edizioni in the Heterotopie series, the book investigates the relationship between art and video games from a variety of perspectives. Featuring eight contributions
ART GAME
Antonin Fourneau, eggregor8, mixed media, installation view 2016 Eniarof 20 – Roubaix In this collective game, eight players try to control a single Pacman and navigate a maze. The artists challenge the notion that cooperation can lead to better outcomes than individual efforts. Originally produced in 2008, eggregor8 has been updated
3D ANIMATION
Open CodesLiving in Digital WorldsOctober 20, 2017–August 5, 2018 Opening: October 19, 7pm ZKM_Foyer ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Lorenzstr. 19 76135 KarlsruheGermany The exhibition Open Codes reflects on the world we live in today; a world that is created and controlled by digital codes. From
ART GAME
David OReilly, "Everything", 2016; Photo: N. Miguletz, Copyright; Frankfurter Kunstverein Perception is Reality: On the Construction of Reality and Virtual Worlds October 7, 2017–January 7, 2018 Opening: October 6, 7pm Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus am Römerberg Markt 44 60311 Frankfurt/Main Germany Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–7pm,
3D ANIMATION
Jon Rafman, Poor Magic, 2017, Single-channel HD Video and unique sculptural installation, 8:30 minImages: JON RAFMAN / STAN VANDERBEEK, INSTALLATION VIEW, SPRÜTH MAGERS LOS ANGELES, 2017LINK : Jon Rafman
3D ANIMATION
"It’s 2017 and computer graphics have conquered the Uncanny Valley, that strange place where things are almost real... but not quite. After decades of innovation, we’re at the point where we can conjure just about anything with software. The battle for photoreal CGI has been won, so
DOCUMENTARY
"In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City that he mysteriously titled “Magnasanti.” Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises, “Magnasanti” exposes the hellish consequences of top-down civic design. In “Films from Magnasanti,” documentarian John Wilson curates a program of short films inspired
EVENT
David Blandy The End of the World3rd November to 16th December 2017PV Thursday 2nd November 6pmSeventeen270-276 Kingsland RoadEntrance on Acton MewsLondon E8 4DG Press release:"Comprising three film installations and new series of photographs, ‘The End of the World’ deals with the artist’s relationship to technology and memory,
EVENT
Marco Mendeni “De Oraculis Novis” [solo show] October 24 - December 10, 2017 AREA35 Gallery via Vigevano 35, cortile interno, 20123 Milano, Italy Hours: Monday - Friday 3.30 - 7 pm., Saturday (appointment only). “r_lightTweakSunlight” project stems from the research within the videogames brought forward by Marco Mendeni