ANIMATION
We are delighted to announce the full program of the 2020 MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL. The event takes place between March 09-13 2020 at IULM University in two separate locations: the Contemporary Exhibition Hall and the Sala dei 146, both located in the IULM Open Space building. Both venues are open
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When it comes to bold, daring, unique, and unclassifiable game-based experiences, there's simply nothing comparable to the visionary, WTF stuff that the students of Eddo Stern's UCLA GameLab create. Point in case: check out the trailer for Elsie Wang's Game Lab Fellow Intimacy. LINK
3D ANIMATION
A collaborative project between artists Carson Lynn and Grace Grothau, Parched Earth examines the ecological tensions embedded in contemporary video games. As Carson writes: Both artists have dealt with global warming in their respective practices, so they sought out to create a speculative fiction film depicting a dystopian future where
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Jenny Jiao Hsia, Consume Me, 2018System Link: Video Game as Memoir Curated by Brice Puls January 24 - April 25, 2020 Opening Reception Friday, January 24 2020, 6-9pm VGA Gallery 2418 W Bloomingdale #101 Chicago, IL 60647 Video games have historically been a product catered to the player. A focus
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Now Play This 2020 – Open Call Now Play This is returning to Somerset House in London from April 3rd – 5th as part of London Games Festival. Ahead of this year’s festival we’re once again opening up a call for playful makers and creators to tell us about their
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Jon Rafman, Open Heart Warrior, Three-channel HD video, sculptural installation, 13:30, 2016 In Rafman's Open Heart Warrior, virtual landscapes evoking the iconography of fantasy play on three screens, while unsettling and disturbing images from violent computer games enter and exit the frame, often in the viewer’s
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As if we needed proof further proof that Akihiko Taniguchi is a staggering genius... In his latest project, the ultra realistic racing game Art Speed, artworks on wheels - Gabriel Orozco's La DS (1993), Umberto Boccioni's Forme uniche nella continuità dello spazio (1913), and R.T.
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Juan Obando, Pro Revolution Soccer, 2019Game Changers: Video Games & Contemporary Art February 22 to April 19 2020 Free entryMassArt Museum (MAAM) Sandra & David Bakalar Gallery Free and open to the public621 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 United States Curated by Darci Hanna, this group exhibition explores artists working
FILM
The theme of the 2020 MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL is The Weird, the Eerie, and the Unreal. Inspired by Mark Fisher’s last book, The Weird and the Eerie (2017), the theme tries to capture the essence of machinima, like the previous two, Aesthetics of game-based cinema (2018) and Uncanny (2019)
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Heads up! A MAZE. just launched a call for submission which may be of interest to you all:Ok. First of all, you probably already know that A MAZE. 9th International Games and Playful Media Festival takes place in Berlin from April 22-25, 2020, in Berlin, Germany.Now, the organizers
GAME ART
Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf), Featherfall, 2019 4 channel video installation (loop) + audio, loudspeaker Several scholars have compared the logic of video games to dreams (rather than movies or novels) to explain their peculiar nature: Alfie Bown comes to mind (see The PlayStation Dreamworld). Total Refusal explored
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Eddie Lohmeyer, Scrolling Landscape in 34 NES Games, digital video/machinima, color, 1' 58", 2019 Eddie Lohmeyer's Scrolling Landscape in 34 NES Games (2019) is an experimental glitch video exploring the relationship among nostalgia and our perception of technologically mediated landscapes, created by "appropriating footage