ARCADE
Bonus Life: Extended Play is an upcoming documentary on game culture by Michael Sroka. "Filming in Wales, England, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, the US, and Cuba interviewing video game competitors, both professionals, and casual players; video game developers of both hardware and software; and video game journalists and critics,
GAME ART
A critical inquiry into Super Mario Brothers from Chris Novello aka paperkettle, the master of ludic codebending: "Conceptually, it is like Super Mario meets Groundhog Day. Mario's universe computer / time machine gets caught in hellish loops." "In the video, I directly manipulate the RAM of
ART GAME
Image: Hammer Museum "The UCLA Game Lab in collaboration with the Hammer Student Association (HSA) presents an evening of innovative gaming curated by Game Lab director and associate professor of Design Media Arts Eddo Stern. With games ranging from the bombastic and performative to the intimate and personal, these
GLITCH
This video shows a livecoding performance by Dave Griffiths in which Atari's Missile Command is slowly rewritten to be a piece of abstract machinima. Griffiths lives in Falmouth, Cornwall. LINK : Dave Griffith Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
EVENT
foci + loci ((Tamara Yadao and Chris Burke) performed a live version of "F. T. Mari(o)netti" at Vector Game Art Festival in Toronto on February 23, 2013. Like 200 Keyholes, this performance also uses LittleBigPlanet 2 as both platform and medium. From Futurism to Fascism, in a
GAME ART
GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this fascinating artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the
PERFORMANCE
Quebec-based artist and designer Paolo Almario's "Corps & Espace" is a performance based on Carolyne Gauthier's ideas about the "human body immersed in a virtual world offered to the spectators as a perspective game." LINK: Paolo Almario Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME
Can somebody please fully develop this game, Yuppie Paradise? Till Nagel's students Florian Kohne, Hans-Peter Kadel, Hannes Hoepfner, and Ferdi Hansen began working on the project in 2009 while completing their degree at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany. The goal? "Players take on the role
EVENT
The Itagaki Interface is the latest project by Daniele Hopkins and Kyle Duffield. The two formed a collaborative aptly titled Hopkins Duffield. The Itagaki Interface uses the artists' bodies to "challenge exaggerated representations of the human body in the fighting game Dead or Alive, created by Tomonobu Itakagi.
ART GAME
Banopticon (or Banoptikon) is an online single-player 3D computer game developed by the media arts collective Personal Cinema addressing the issue of immigration to and within the European Union. Under development since January of 2010, the game will be released at the end of April 2013. Personal Cinema collective includes
GAME ART
In Bren Watanabe's for(){}; a custom computer application with sound, projection mapped onto three wall mounted paintings, "there is no beginning or end to the game, just collecting and wandering, birthing and consuming, an arbitrary point system rising until your inevitable death and the birth of another
GAME ART
Tacit Group's "Game Over" performance at the Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Tacit Group is a South Korean "audio-visual performance group established in early 2008 with vision of making new performance art while incorporating various disciplines like electro-acoustic music, contemporary visual art, literature&