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Vector Game + Art Convergence vectorgameartfest.tumblr.com February 21-24th, 2013 Toronto, Canada Tickets Simply put, Vector is the Game Art event of the year. With more than 70 artists from all over the world, killer programs, workshops and presentations, talks and interactions of all kinds, Vector Game + Art Convergence brings
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A new project from Australia artist Christ Howlett titled Heterotopia (definition). Here's the description: "What is the truth about the Gold Coast? Heterotopia explores the juxtaposition between the reported Gold Coast and the virtual possibilities caught up in sites of otherness. What reality is being explored becomes
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Live gameplay extract from "I'm n0t playing" (2013), audiovisual performance for hacked videogame and real-time sampler.Video: Marco Mendeni marcomendeni.net Sound: Bob Meanza bobmeanza.net We are huge fans of Marco Mendeni's work, which focuses on hacking 3D engines of first/third person
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"2nd. International Indie Games Festival in Berlin We connect the International Indie Game Scene in Berlin. A MAZE. Indie Connect brings together international indie developers, creatives and enthusiast in Berlin, the city of creation, no borders, best clubs and an amazing games scene. On April 24 and 26, you
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Born in Athens in 1975, Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos uses videogames and other popular cultural artifacts as a source of inspiration - both on a conceptual and aesthetic level. The result of this interaction can be seen, for instance in the series The Great Golden Room, which he describes on his website
PAINTING
"Sim City" is a series of paintings about a virtual megalopolis imagine by Sim Chan (b. 1987) young Chinese artist living in Hong Kong, an obvious fan of Will Wright's urban simulation. The fact that Chan's first name is Sim makes this artwork uber-referential.
GAME ART
Australian artist Chris Howlett' latest project is titled Bushtalkers, "a Two Player Interactive Game Mod which used the Unreal Tournament 3 game engine to create a giant fantasy forest where two players could explore aimlessly without the capability to shoot their guns. Their only guide was a series
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"The 2.0 version of This Is No Game, a new media performance piece created and presented in Montreal, May 2011. This Is No Game is a performance project where the public is invited to take control over the actions of two performers through a video game metaphor and
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"Winter 1990. Everyone Around Me Was Hooked. Moments Went By Without Any Movement. GoodByeWinter" (Audio Visual) LINK : Audio Visual Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Portuguese artist Sandra "s-ara" Araújo has created a series of impressive game-art mash-ups. "Tape Loading Error" is my favorite: "Animation exploring the visual culture of video games and the spread of popular gif files. The imagery of Magritte's surrealist paintings gives a working
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"A problematization of Cory Arcangel's "I Shot Andy Warhol," which he created by hacking and rewriting the game "Hogan's Alley" for the NES." (Adam Rosenberg) LINK : Adam Rosenberg Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Joseph Delappe, Work in Progress, 2012, (working title "The Terrorist Other"), polygon sculpture. Joseph Delappe is working on a new sculpture created from extracted Taliban avatar data from EA's Medal of Honor fps. As he explains on his website, "I've taken a Taliban