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INFINITE GRAVEYARD digital video, color, sound, 666'“, 2020 (Russia) Created by Mikhail Maksimov VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Mikhail Maksimov first encountered videogames at the age of twelve. His first time was with Clive Townsend’s Saboteur! (1985) on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Subsequently, he fell in love with
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The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series at UC Berkeley presents Skawennati, "World Re-Building: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures" Thursday, November 5 | 5:00 — 6:30 PM | Online Skawennati will present the artwork and ideas of the Indigenously-determined research/creation networks
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Great video essay on game phot ography by eurothug4000, which quotes, among other things Eva and Franco Mattes's 13 Most Beautiful Avatarsand Leo Sang's Virtual Reality Photography project which was featured in the TRAVELOGUE exhibition in 2016. Also: check out the incredibly detailed The Last of
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Berkeley Center for New Media presents: ATC Lecture — Lawrence Lek, "The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL" Monday, October 26 | 6:30-8:00PM | Online Register for Zoom link hereOr stream via YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8hq6oU__viC_fDu2lhOe7wInterlaced with conspiracy theories and speculative
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The Garden of Earthly Delights is an online chatroom for the creatures living within the world of Age of Empires II created by SCRNPRNT, that is Neilson Koerner-Safrata (Virtual Virtual Reality, Dustnet, Irrational Exuberance among others) and his twin brother Milan (Heart, Puzzlegami, Alien Garden among others). Gloriously absurd, like
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FORWARD, UPWARD, IN ALL DIRECTIONS digital video (1980 x 1080), color, sound, 19’ 16”, 2018 (Ukraine) Created by fantastic little splash Introduced by Matteo Bittanti VRAL Both poetic and prosaic, Forward, upward, in all directions is a psychedelic trip inside VRChat, a free-to-play massively multiplayer online virtual reality environment created
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London Film Festival Expanded October 7–18 A new strand of XR and immersive art and virtual exhibition space Official link Press release: LFF Expanded is BFI London Film Festival’s new dedicated strand of XR and immersive Art. Using cinema as a jumping off point, LFF Expanded features virtual
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Weaponizing Courtship is a virtual performance-for-video created by Angela Washko for Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich, Switzerland), 2020 as part of SITUATIONS / STRIKE, curated by Marco De Mutiis. As Washko explains, Weaponizing Courtship traces a brief history of how military vision and technology have been incorporated into computer games and refers to
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SaveMe Oh does Diana Ross in this diabolic video about covidiocy. SaveMe Oh is just one of the several virtual alter-egos created by Oscar Wagenmans, a Dutch theatre director and actor. An eclectic figure inside and outside the virtual space, Wagenmans began his career as an actor in 1983 performing
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Edwin Lo Crucifixion and Epiphany October 2 - October 15 VRAL Introduced by Luca Miranda vral.org A follow up to Those Who Do Not Remember The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It (2020) and The Rupture of Promised Land (Or We Can Never Get There) (2020), Crucifixion and Epiphany
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the wulf. is an experimental collective featuring Lil' Jürg Frey, Liam Mooney (a.k.a. lmoo, 266437144916648607844), a composer, performer, and instrument maker based in Los Angeles and Isaac Schanklerand. Among other things, they make experimental music with video games. In their latest performance, they reimagined and reorchestrated the
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A Lament for Power: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy Tuesday 6 October 2020 2-7pm Art Exchange Art Exchange University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ United Kingdom The exhibition is open from Tuesday 6 October - Sat 14 November A Lament for Power is the outcome of a nine-month