ESSAY
Now trending: Videogame criticism on contemporary art blogs. It makes perfect sense. In fact, I cannot think of a better place for game criticism. I am just surprised that it took so long. => Paul King on Gone Home & Half-Life, and, previously, Proteus. Good stuff. LINK: Bad at Sports
ART GAME
LINK : SF BAY Guardian Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ARCADE
PUNK ARCADE a UCLA GAME LAB EVENT November 9, 2013, 5:00 - 8 pm, free and open to the public Punk Arcade is a DIY games exhibit presenting works that are independent, minimal, offbeat, and sometimes gritty. Curators team up with artists, students and designers to race against the
EVENT
If you are lucky enough to be in Aix-en-Provence for GAMERZ #9, one of the hottest Game Art festivals in Europe - if not the world - don't miss the Performance Night at the École Supérieure d'Art from 7 pm till midnight. Here's the
GAME ART
The artistic playfulness of the project lies in a remarkable use of the "ghosting" metaphor, which is relevant for digital gaming as a whole - it has been explored in Game Art before, consider, for instance, Riley Harmon's early work - and especially central in the
3D ANIMATION
Jonathan Monaghan's new body of work is titled "Mothership" and it will be presented at Moving Image London during the Frieze art fair between October 17 - 20 2013 at The Bargehouse in the South Bank. Additionally, Curator's Office has just released Jonathan Monaghan:
GAME ART
An interesting project intersecting different disciplines: new media studies, media archeology, digital preservation and Game Art by Canadian artist R. Guillaume Bourdon aka RGB. As Bourdon explains: "This is a series of short scenes I took while exploring parts of an abandoned island in the game Second Life. I&
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Photo by Lauren Naefe (Museum of the Moving Image) Indie Essentials: 25 Must-Play Video Games December 14, 2013–March 2, 2014 Museum of the Moving Image "IndieCade and Museum of the Moving Image present a playable exhibition of significant independent video games representing the breadth and depth of “indie”
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Portrait of Jim Munroe, Canadian author, by Stephen Gregory via Wikipedia Exciting news. Canadian artist, writer, machinimaker, filmmaker and game designer Jim Munroe will be the artist-in-residence at one of North America’s largest museum galleries, the AGO. As Munroe writes on his website, "During February and March they’
ARCADE
LINK : Mattie Hillock Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
INTERVIEW
Highly recommended: We Make Money Not Art's conversation with French curator Isabelle Arvers about the upcoming show GAMES REFLEXIONS. Here is an excerpt: "[Régine Debatty] Hi Isabelle! Why do you think that now is a good time to reflect upon gaming? And more particularly about the relationship
EVENT
Kudos to Urban Video Project - a multi-media public art initiative of Light Work and Syracuse University - for sharing an excerpt of Phil Solomon's "Still Raining, Still Dreaming" (2008, machinima, 12 ' 14""), a segment of his larger Grand Theft Auto series "