MACHINIMA
Inspired by Operation JaneWalk by Leonhard Müllner and Robin Klengel (a tour of New York through its representation in the videogame The Division 2), Vin Diesel’s Alternative Guide To Barcelona is a video essay providing an accurate account of the history and culture of the Spanish city through the
ART GAME
If you have not had the chance to check out GAME PLAY VIDEO GAME CULTURE, you have until August 30. This excellent exhibition organized by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain (an extended adaptation of Gameplay. The Next Level, designed by and first presented at the ZKM Center
GAME
Petri Levälahti aka @Berduu is making super short photo mode tutorials for The Last of Us Part II on Twitter. Check'em out! Petri Levalhati currently works at EA DICE as a Screenshot Capture Artist. You may remember his brilliant machinima that we covered a few years ago. LINK:
GAME
The compare-and-contrast reality vs simulacra trope is one of the most popular in game photography and The Last of Us Part II does not disappoint. Robert Robinson is remapping Seattle by juxtaposing photographs from the real thing and the game. The result looks, oddly, like an episode of Dark. Check
ART GAME
The July/August 2020 issue of Frieze features a series on articles on play and games, including but not limited to: Darran Anderson's reverie about escaping into the classic arcade game Street Fighter II (1991) during the Troubles in Northern Ireland; Orit Gat on sports writing as a
CONTRIBUTION
The Summer 2020 issue of Art Journal is now available in print and online and it features an outstanding selection of essays and articles on the relationship between art and video games, including contributions from guest editor Soraya Murray, Tracy Fullerton, Dorothy R. Santos, Eugénie Shinkle, Alenda Y. Chang, Hava
EVENT
SHADOWS:ULTRA Digital video, color, sound, 9’ 30”, 2019 July 3 - July 16 2020 VRAL Introduced by Luca Miranda Shadows:ULTRA shows overlapping animal shadows within the Dunia game engine, a software fork of CryEngine designed by Kirmaan Aboobaker while working at Crytek. Thomas Hawranke filmed the individual images
ART GAME
Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn, still from The Endless Forest, online multiplayer game, 2005/2020-ongoing.bitforms gallery x Small Data Industries presents:The Endless Forest, Auriea Harvey & Michaël SamynStreaming online June 23–July 7, 2020bitforms.art/stream bitforms gallery is proud to present The Endless Forest by Auriea Harvey
EVENT
A new project by Alan Butler mixes Marx and video games starting tomorrow, June 20 2020, on Twitch . Think David Harvey does PlayStation. There will be 19 episodes, each with a duration of around 2 hours. Upon completion, the whole series will be available as a 40 hour stream. Get
3D ANIMATION
MONOMYTH: GAIDEN/RETURN Created by Petra Széman June 19 - July 2 2020 VRAL Introduced by Gemma Fantacci Monomyth: gaiden / Return (2019) is the third installment in the ongoing Monomyth: gaiden series (2018-). Structured around the trope of the hero’s journey, it investigates how real life might be experienced
GAME ART
Ian Williams uses a traditional medium, painting, to redefine and rethink the aesthetics of gaming. His work is the outcome of a complex process involving three-dimensional computer modelling and paint, screens and canvases. His process is simultaneously simple and complex: the artist extract elements from a video game and removes
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TV is generally crap. One notable exception is Franco-German killer kombo Arte.tv. After devoting an entire episode of The Art of Gaming to in-game photography, Tracks profiled two of the most groundbreaking artists working with/against video games: Austrian artist Leonhard Muellner (the outspoken member of Total Refusal collective)