GAME ART
Vertige is a relatively rare example of a machinima created by combining gameplay footage from different games - Downward (Caracal Games, 2017), No70: Eye of Basir (Oldmoustache Gameworks, 2017), Rememoried (Vladimir Kudelka, 2015), Stairs (GreyLight Entertainment, 2015), Superhot (SUPERHOT Team, 2016), The Beginner's Guide (Davey Wreden, 2015), The
3D ANIMATION
An in-depth look at Kristoffer Zetterstrand's practice. The Swedish painter has been exploring the boundaries between art and paintings for more than a decade. As he explains on his website, For some years I have experimented with virtual still lifes, often in the form of stage design in
GAME ART
Karl Munstedt's Grand Theft Homo is an ongoing project comprising mods, hacks, and queer-ings of Grand Theft Auto V intended to subvert and obscure the hetero-masculine tropes embedded within the algorithms of the game. New mods are added to an online repository, which will augment the GTA world
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A few months ago, Duncan Robson released a two hour cut of his monumental project Hours Played, a video game... remake... homage... remediation... (?) of Christian Marclay's The Clock (2010). Robson's project qualifies as truly maddening and insane, thus genius. It's the mother of all
ARCADE
Steven Paul Judd, Invaders, 2018Indigenous Futurisms: Explorations in Art and Play Gorman Museum at University of California, Davis Oct 2, 2019 - Jan 31, 2020 One Shields Ave., Davis, California Open Mon-Fri, noon-5 p.m., and Sun 2-5 p.m. Admission is free. Website: gormanmuseum.ucdavis.edu. Indigenous Futurisms brings
GAME ART
Jacky Connolly, Ariadne, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 50m13s.Last Summer, one of the most prominent video artists working with the video game aesthetics, Jacky Connolly, released her new monumental work, Ariadne. Like her previous projects, Ariadne was shot with/in The Sims. It was exhibited at Down and Ross
COLLABORATION
Total Refusal, How to Disappear, machinima, 2020, 20:06 A game video essay on the nature of war - both "real", that is, unmediated, and its remediation through ludic means - How to Disappear. Deserting Battlefield is a profound, moving, and enlightening meditation on topics ranging from the
ANALOG
Seamus Gallagher, falling in love with whatever loves me first, pigment print, 44” x 66”, 2017 I'm in love with Séamus Gallagher's a space and place all for us, a triptych featuring images created digitally using 3D modeling programs like Blender, as well as Unity, a
DOCUMENTARY
Jona Kleinlein, Hidden Conflicts, machinima, 23' 05", 2019 Jona Kleinlein is a multi-media artist working with film, video and installation living and working in Norway. He is interested in exploring the increasingly porous boundaries between filmmaking, video games, and simulation. Hidden Conflicts is Jona's new short,
FILM
Andy Hughes' monumental Plastic Scoop examines the relationship between virtual environments and ecological issues though the filter of GTA V. Created using the Rockstar Editor, Plastic Coop mixes images from the videogame with found footage and archival moving image. The video opens with the soothing atmospheres of an ocean
GAME ART
Intimacy's Mod is a series of mods by Kara Gut created with the aid of the “Immersive Lover’s Comfort” by flexcreator for Skyrim. By using this mod, the artist distorts the games' original narrative and replaces it with an in-game performance carried out by the Gut
3D ANIMATION
A delicious twist on the "paintings in video games" trope. Mark Fingerhut is an artist, a computer user, a hacker, a performer, a singer, a video-maker, a writer, a juggler, a gamer, and a friend. He worked with Ian Cheng and Peter Burr, among others. He graduated from