CONCEPTUAL
foci + loci's new project (in progress) is titled Ways Of Sitting and refers to interactive, virtual objects, modeled after Marcel Duchamp's readymades. As Tamara and Chris explain, The conceptual import of these art historical objects sitting in a gallery already deny any affordance usually associated with
ARCHITECTURE
The latest issue of Heterotopias (#4) focuses on the theme of landscape in virtual worlds, its contraction, simulation, and exploration. Below are the highlights: 004’s cover piece is on the forests of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which in this issue are shown in all their glory in an
ART GAME
Watershed and the British Council seek two UK-based creative professionals to participate in a two-stage Playable City Tokyo Residency in June and September 2018. Building on the work of an ongoing Playable City Tokyo programme, the residency is an opportunity to collaboratively research and develop playful ideas at the intersection
DOCUMENTARY
Dominic Gagnon's Going South (2018) - the second episode of his ongoing series of documentaries on post-internet reality - features several sequences from Grand Theft Auto V, although from the trailer below it would be hard to believe. Going South was presented at the Vision du reel 2018
ART GAME
A killer workshop organized by Marco De Mutiis, digital curator at fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, part of the Biel Festival of Photography, featuring Simone Niquille, Roc Herms and Alan Butler: As our lives take place increasingly on screens, our social interactions increasingly take place on media platforms. We chat with
ART GAME
Installation view of JODI: OXO, in the Lightbox Gallery at the Harvard Art Museums. Photo: R. Leopoldina Torres. © President and Fellows of Harvard College.JODI: OXOFebruary 7–April 23, 2018 Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Hours: Monday–Sunday10am–5pm Special event : GAMES JODI PLAY: April
GAME ART
Wow, this is just phenomenal: an early work by American artist, curator and scholar Copper Giloth connects video games to video art. [Incidentally, From Video Games to Video Art is also the subtitle of a recent anthology on machinima that I edited for Italian publisher Mimesis - I confess I
GAME ART
Zhang Yue, Welcome, 2017, single channel video and Pen on black-and-white photograph, Videos | 20 × 28.5 cm × 60, 108 Video files | 2017 Chinese artist Zhang Yue has been experimenting with video games for a long time. In his recent video installation Welcome (2017), Zhang plays the role of a watcher
AR
VIDEOGAMES: DESIGN/PLAY/DISRUPT The Victoria and Albert Museum London Curated by Marie Foulston 8 September 2018 - 24 February 2019 Advance tickets: £18. Tickets go on sale today. The Victoria and Albert Museum will host one of the most ambitious exhibitions about videogames, art, and design of the last
BOOK
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 examine both the origins and evolution of a phenomenon that
GLITCH
A lapse in time set in Los Santos by São Paulo-based artist and DJ Màrcio Vermelho, aka VIDEO-SISTEMA. His work has been presented at several events and exhibitions in Brazil and elsewhere, including the multimedia festival LAÇO. LINK: Màrcio Vermelho
LECTURE
A terrific short lecture by Marilyn Roxie, given at the 10th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. Roxie is an experimental digital media artist working with video collage, photography, webcams, Second Life and more. She is also a recent graduate of San Francisco State University with a