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"In "8-bit evaporation", 5,500 tinted ice cubes were used as "pixels" to create the iconic Super Mario Bros. cloud. It was then encouraged to melt and was recorded in HD. The resulting video was sped up, compressed, reversed and looped. The soundtrack are two
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A selection of highlights from the latest A MAZE event: A MAZE. Indie Connect (April 26-27), The Moments 02 - A MAZE. "The Most Amazing Game" Award and 03 - Keynote by Jonatan Söderström The full video playlist is available here. LINK : A MAZE Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Skot Deeming aka mrghosty is the mastermind behind "Vector: Game + Art Convergence", a 4 day Game Art festival and symposium scheduled for February 2013 in Toronto, Canada. As Skot writes, the event was "borne out of a need for a more critical dialogue in the popular discourse
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Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Damien Hirst), machinima, playable car, 2012 The fourth automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a brightly colored 850 CSi, was developed by Damien Hirst' avatars: "Hirst’s deep love for BMW comes as no surprise. He is reportedly Britain’s richest living artist. Hirst
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"2012, the year of financial crises, overpopulation, nuclear risk, climatic disorders, dangerous ideological drifts. GAMERZ questions artists of our time testifying of these days and concerns through contemporary creation. Let’s break the bank and investigate apocalyptic predictions thanks to digital creation. For its 8th edition, the GAMERZ festival
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Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Cy Twombly), machinima, playable car, 2012 The third car in the ongoing CARJACKED project was developed by Cy Twombly's avatars "In 1971,BMW asked Twombly to decorate a lush 3.0 CLS BMW as part of the German carmaker initiative, Art Cars. The
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Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Piet Mondrian), machinima, playable car, 2012 The second car in the ongoing CARJACKED project, created by Piet Mondrian's avatars. "Piet Mondrian’s “Composition 10” (1939-1942) is the main inspiration behind Coll.eo’s second digital BMW Art Car. In an act of creative
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Sophie Kahn, 04302011 "Prospectives ’12 International Festival of Digital Art is the third iteration of a media festival started by UNR Professor and media artist, Joseph DeLappe. Prospectives is a unique event in that it is focused entirely on pre-professional artists – highlighting an international selection of work by graduate
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Coll.eo, CARJACKED (After Jackson Pollock), machinima, playable car, 2012. "CARJACKED is a set of digital BMW cars created with the Livery editor of Forza Motorsport 4 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Game Studios, 2011, Xbox 360) by Coll.eo. These cars are the digital counterparts of the ongoing BMW
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This is the video recording of the discussion with Chris Solarski, game designer Robin Hunicke, and Stanford University lecturer Henry Lowood moderated by artist and professor Eddo Stern that took place at SwissNex in San Francisco on September 20 2012. LINK: From Michelangelo to Mario Kart Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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"An exciting, collaborative event from the Art and Computer Science Departments! This panel discussion on Art, Games, & History will include Mary Flanagan, Brenda Laurel, Susan Laxton, and Kate O'Riordan. Gameplay and reception following." (UC Santa Cruz)When: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 2:00pm -
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Nocturne is a walkthrough of a level built from scratch as the final project for a game audio class by New York artist Trevor Murray. As he explains on his blog, "Each stone plinth has an associated musical layer, which the player unlocks by lighting a fire atop the