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Remember this event? It gets even more interesting: The Heart Games art exhibition celebrates video game culture, focusing on collected art from primarily Swedish and Scnadinavian artists, but also works from selected international artists. The exhibition opens Saturday 2/2 in 2013 at the Technical Museum in game art that
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Via Postmasters: "CHINESE DEMOCRACY AND THE LAST DAY ON EARTH February 16 - March 16, 2013 opening reception, Saturday, February 16, 6-8 Postmasters Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition with a NY based Italian artist Federico Solmi. The show will center around his most recent animated video
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An interactive video installation that allows the user to simultaneous ride a bike in two cities, Paris and Copenhagen. In short, real and virtual are juxtaposed in a gallery space. Le Petit Tour debuted at the French Art Day festival in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the Øksnehallen hall on the 19th
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Bren Watanabe, High Noon, 2011, interactive installation - speakers, cameras, iPhone, modified thermostat, custom computer applications "Every 40 minutes (when the thermostat reads 12:00PM), gunshots ring out between the speakers, and if gallerygoers happen to be standing between them, they get "hit" and the body count is
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JONATHAN BLOW & HEATHER CHAPLIN February 6, 2013 at 730 pm @ The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, free and open to the public "Jonathan Blow is an independent game designer-programmer whose goal is to make games that are mind-expanding in ways unique to the medium. Best known for
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Quite intriguing: "'Chess: The Game of Life' is a microcosm combining the human touch with melting ice pieces and an eroding rock salt board to reflect the nature of interaction. Set into a circular table to signify the heavens, the board’s 64 squares of crystallized minerals
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A seminal ludic performance in an institutional space: "In MOCA Grand Prix, Knifeandfork invites participants to race remote-control cars through MOCA’s current exhibition, A Changing Ratio: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection. Using mounted cameras, each Wi-Fi-enabled car is driven remotely through a video game
ACADEMIC COURSE
Beginning this semester, I will be teaching a Course titled GameScenes: Art in the Age of Videogames at California College of the Arts, in the Visual Studies Program. It is both a spin-off of this ongoing project but also a new point of departure. The first of a series
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Since its inception in 2006, Gamescenes has evolved, leading to its integration into academic curricula at various institutions in the United States and Italy, including the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, California and IULM University in Milan.At the California College of the Arts, Gamescenes
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Wei-Ming Ho, Self Destruction for Eternity, Single Channel video, 2011, 6 minutes 20"Taiwanese artist Wei-Ming Ho is a visual artist and filmmaker. He works across the fields of experimental film, video installation and media art. Self Destruction for Eternity raises a series of questions about reality
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Scott Stark, Driven, 2005, miniDV, color/sound, 10 mins.Austin-based artist Scott Stark has produced more than 60 films and videos since 1980. Driven is one of them. A modern classic: "Driven attempts to blur the lines between video gaming and urban reality, finding in both a seductive