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"The Art of Video Games exhibition (opening March 16, 2012) will explore how game designers combine visual effects with narrative, audio, and player interaction to create immersive and meaningful experiences. To celebrate this ground-breaking exhibition, we are looking for photographs that show how video games can inspire creativity! These
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Link: Shoot View (site down, currently 12/12/2011) Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (via Kottke)
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"At a Distance is a two player puzzle game, created by Terry Cavanagh for NYU Game Center's 2011 No Quarter Exhibition. It's designed to be played on two computers running side by side. It's a game about solitude in shared experiences." Link:
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A small but juicy selection of photographs taken by Giovanni Fredi, an Italian photographer fascinated by tech-subcultures, at Blip Festival 2011, which took place in Tokyo on October 2nd and 23rd. You can read the related article (in Italian) on WIRED.it. We've covered Fredi's previous
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Casey Reas, Chronograph, 2011 "Next Tuesday will be our last LAVA meeting of 2011, and we look forward to welcoming Casey Reas, the co-founder of Processing, and Xárene Eskandar, the author of ‘vE-”jA: Art + Technology of Live Audio-Video. Casey will be presenting his latest generative visual work at
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"Rhizome New Silent Series event: The Kill Screen Dialogues When are games more than games? When they are communicating with others? Although videogames are bigger than ever, they are often perceived as cultural silos and not in conversation with other art forms or cultures. In conjunction with videogame arts
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A great video reportage by Nicolas Tilly about Game Story, the new exhibition about the history and aesthetic development of videogames @ the Grand Palais of Paris. Game Story. Une histoire du jeu vidéo Grand Palais, Galerie sud-est, Paris, France 10 novembre 2011 – 9 janvier 2012, curated by Jean-Baptiste Clais related
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"A game not about fighting, but a game about already having lost. Houses of the Holy is a large scale media arts project which infuses vintage programming techniques, stylized visuals, and an abstract narrative to create its whole. Installed in a gallery space, there is no definite end to
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Game Story. Une histoire du jeu vidéo Grand Palais, Galerie sud-est, Paris, France 10 novembre 2011 – 9 janvier 2012, curated by Jean-Baptiste Clais "Apparu au début des années 1970, le jeu vidéo est un média jeune qui n’a cessé d’évoluer et de se perfectionner jusqu’à devenir
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"Les images de guerre sont omniprésentes sur nos écrans. Elles sont diffusées en un flot interrompu qui finissent par émousser notre pouvoir d'empathie : elles deviennent banales. A tel point qu'on ne les voit plus, qu'on ne cherche plus à en saisir la portée.
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"Artist Olle Essvik presents "Waiting for" a videogame based on Beckets play Waiting for Godot. Besides a short presentation of the game and its principles, the audience got a preview of the next installment, EndGame, which is in the works." (Matesz Pozar) Video and editing by
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"Mary Flanagan is an artist, author, educator and designer. As Professor in Digital Humanities she’s associated with the Dartmouth College in New Hampshire (US). Flanagan is the author of Critical Play: Radical Game Design." (strp.nl) Link: Mary Flanagan Submitted by Matteo Bittanti