EVENT
Museum as Game Board (Panel Discussion) Thursday April 19 2012 MOMA, San Francisco Katy Beale, editor, Museums at Play and cofounder, Caper Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne, Situate Erica Gangsei, manager of interpretive media, SFMOMA Additional speakers to be announced Koret Visitor Education Center 7:00 p.m. Free with
ART GAME
Michael Todd, “Silent Skies”, 2009 forallgamerssake curated by jame woo Toronto @ csi annex February 21-23, 2012 6:30 - 9:30 pm official website [unfortunately, the main website has disappeared. But Eric Weiss has interviewed the curator, Jamie Woo. A must-read - Matteo] featuring the works of: anna anthropy, increpare,
GAME ART
A second project by Kristoffer Zetterstrand, "Bricks in the Wall" (2012) will transform the Swedish Segeltorpsskolan school in a giant videogame space. Using glass mosaics, Zetterstrand is introducing playfulness and dynamism in an otherwise conventional indoor space. The project was commissioned by Commissioned by Huge Fastigheter AB 2011.
NEWS
Kristoffer Zetterstrand is taking 8-bit aesthetics to the street. His new projects, including "Ager Medicinae" (above), transform the side of a building - the parking house walls of the New Karolinska Solna University Hospital, Stockholm - into a videogame via tile mosaics. The New Karolinska Solna is the
GAME ART
Jonathan Monaghan, Sacrifice of the Mushroom Kings, 2012 - 8:12 - computer animated HD film "The artist is a self-avowed video game fanatic and was highly influenced by video games from his youth, such asSuper Mario Brothers and Street Fighter. Monaghan plucks and alters the characters and environments
EVENT
"A group exhibition where artists pick a video game (be it arcade or family console) from their past or present and reinterpret in their individual vision. "Super Button Mashers" addresses the history of gaming culture and its effect on today's generation. Virtually and physically, the
EVENT
"This set of images gives you a glimpse behind-the-scenes of the ongoing preparation for The Art of Video Gamesexhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. From testing complex "playable" games to building colorful kiosks that showcase videos and screen captures - this exhibition was an exciting and
EVENT
Ibraheem Youssef, screenprintTodd Slater, screenprint "Multiplayer x2" video game themed prints Gallery 1988 Melrose Dates: February 10 - March 3, 2012 Opening Reception: Friday, Feb. 10, 7-10pm Hours: Wed - Sun: 11AM - 6PM - Monday & Tuesday: Closed Link: Gallery 1988 Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
DANCE
In Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN's "Post-Modern Fragmentation", the performer a butoh dancer, controls sound and visuals using his brainwaves. The first clip is from a live performance at the Royal Conservatory, Den Haag on 2/2/2012. "Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN
GAME
William Huber visualizes the ludological interactions in Fatal Frame 2 (Tecmo, 2001). In his project, Huber applied "cultural analytic techniques to identify the transitions in modes of gameplay, in order to characterize the mechanics for generating suspense and uncanny aesthetic experience in a videogame." Full description of the
GAME
"This project represents nearly 100 hours of playing two videogames as high resolution visualizations. This representation allows us to study the interplay of various elements of gameplay, and the relationship between the travel through game spaces and the passage of time in game play. [...] The data are the game
BOOK
An amazing setof black and white photographs from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim from Virtual Geographic: "Whilst playing Skyrim recently, I was struck, as I often am, by a scene of picturesque beauty. I thought it was so picturesque, in fact, that I took a picture of it. The