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"Pour les amoureux de la bidouille électronique et des jeux rétro voici un événement à ne pas manquer ! Dans une ère où la 3D, la réalité virtuelle et la réalité augmentée font de notre quotidien un monde de haute technologie, des artistes, musiciens, performers ont fait le choix d’
GAME ART
"Excerpt from a gig with four C64s at the chip/noise event Bit Brus in Gothenburg, 2012. Perhaps the first gig ever with 100% text mode petscii? Performed by Goto80 and Raquel Meyers." LINK: Raquel Meyers Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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"Are certain kind of aesthetics connected to certain kinds of political issues!? Does it always have to be like that? What if you altered the aestethics connected to the issue? Could you reach new audiences with altered visual styles? Come and create your own political graphics in 8-bit aesthetics!
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sibylle Fendt's "No Sleep Till...", Digital photographs, 2005. This is part of my ongoing exploration of gamer's representations in contemporary photography, "GAME FACE". LINK : Sybille Fendt Submitted by Matteo Bittanti All images (c) Sybille Fendt
ART GAME
Pippin Barr's "PONGS was written in ActionScript 3 using Adobe's FlashBuilder 4.5 and the excellent Flixel library. You may not be surprised to hear that it is based on Atari's PONG. Sound effects were made in bfxr. The font in PONGS is
GAME ART
"They are done, and here they are. I have compiled the first years worth of 8 Bit Dreams illustrations in to one slide show, for your viewing pleasure. I mentioned in an earlier post that I have chosen to put the project on hold because I’ve been offered
GAME ART
Ashley Anderson, Tiny, Billboard design, found game image, 2012Link: Ashley AndersonRELATEDSubmitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
"HARDcade Video Mapping" is a video mapping project by Italian artist Paolo Branca aka VJ Visualoop. Inspired by Mattel's Simon, a classic electronic memory game of the 70s, HARDcade Video Mapping asks the viewers/players to repeat the patterns of color displays on a building, that
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"The need for death in gaming is multifaceted. The cynical argument, largely based on the arcade experience, might describe death in gaming as an economical equation: in order to make more money, games needed to provoke death as quickly as possible in order to get to the next “insert
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Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG Freedom, 2010 Online performance HD video, 9:05 min Edition of 3 Carroll / Fletcher Gallery, London 56 - 57 Eastcastle St London W1W 8EQ, UK April 13 – May 18 Opening: April 12, 6:30-8:30 'In Anonymous, untitled, dimensions variable - an
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Contemporary Art Forum: Critical Play—The Game as an Art Form Thursday, May 17, 2012, 6:00 p.m. Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building "The Contemporary Art Forum presents timely and innovative programs (lectures, conversations, and performances)
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Unveiled just before April Fools' Day by Google, Maps 8-bit for NES ("Coming soon for the Game Boy") is a magical cartridge for nostalgic gamers who are still using their beloved Nintendo Entertainment System in 2012. This groundbreaking application for the Nintendo home console features lo-fi aesthetics,