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Entry form (PDF): click here; rules and conditions Deadline: September 30th 2009, arrival date. Website: Pixxellpoint "Once Upon a Time in the West We keep on talking about “new media”, while in actually fact these media are anything but new. The Net is twenty years old, if we start
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Robert Allen + Antoinette LaFarge, "Playing the Rapture 2008", performance, 2008 (image courtesy of the artist)Antoinette LaFarge (script, visual design) is Associate Professor of Digital Media at the University of California, Irvine. An artist and writer with a special interest in games and virtual realities, her recent work
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Cyril Kuhn, Eddo, female human rogue in Alterac Valley. 2009, oil on canvas, 74 x 98 [image couyrtesy of the artist] Born in Zurich in 1970, Cyril Kuhn is a Los Angeles-based artist who has been exploring the relationship between videogames and traditional arts. Several of his paintings imitate the
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"Ludica is a game design/art collective devoted to developing innovative concepts that explore the potential of games to express women’s narratives, aesthetics, culture and play. Integral to this objective is to create a female-friendly ethos that supports and encourages a range of departures from the male cultures
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What: Wow. Emergent Media PhenomenonWhere: Laguna Art MuseumWhen: June 14 - October 4 2009Website: official websiteThe exhibition is curated by Grace Kook-Anderson and is accompanied by a booklet published by Laguna Art Museum. As part of the exhibition, you'll receive a booklet featuring essays by the curator; participating
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Ancient Pixels: Rug Prototype 01 from Jose Olivares on Vimeo. " Ancient Pixels is my current work in progress where lo-resolution video game graphics, Andean textile art and psychedelic poster art are merged produce the visual aesthetic and the grammar blocks (via Andean symbol interpretation) of a multi-channel interactive video
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Miltos Manetas, Spore drawing, Vibracolour print on superglossy paper, 40 x60 inches, 2008. Courtesy the artist. Miltos Manetas, the Godfather of Game Art, has been playing with Maxis' Spore. His latest game-drawings - inspired by Wright's evolutionary simulation - are currently on display in Prague at the
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Marco Brambilla's HalfLife (2002) is one of the most intriguing examples of Game Art that tries to juxatpose virtual and 'real' performances, game spaces and real spaces. Born in Milan - Brambilla is the quintessential milanese's lastname - the artists lives in new York
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From the official website, the De Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California (directions). Heads-up: Game Art on display (= Machinima)"This survey exhibition features work produced by Bay Area-based or Bay Area-rooted artists using new media—defined in the context of this exhibition as electronic, digital, or
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Designed by San Diego artist Kelly Hutchison aka Dark Vomit, Run for Your Life is a navigable three-dimensional art gallery that uses a first-person perspective and an ubiquituous gun. The gallery showcases artworks created by the artist himself. It is available for Windows XP and Vista. Additionally, Hutchison developed The
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Mónica Jacobo is an Argentinian artist working with videogames, especially first-person shooters. Visual artist and graphic designer, Jacobo has been exploring the porous boundaries between reality and simulation since the mid-Nineties. Here are three artworks by Jacobo that I find particularly fascinating: Portales (2008-2007) A series of game-related photograps that
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Damiano Colacito, live performance, 2008Damiano Colacito is one of the most prolific and interesting artists working with videogames today. His remediations of first-person shooters like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom have been exhibited all over the world, and deservely so. Damiano loves to surprise the viewers by introducing videogame objects and