GAME ART
Video documentation from Maria Lujan Oulton: " In August Game on! El arte en juego visited Cordoba city invited by Spain Cultural Center. The exhibition was accompanied by a series of activities like talks, workshops and the avant-premiere of Us and the game industry" (Oulton).Related: Interview with
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Polybius, the latest video from Scottish artist and filmaker John Houston is a triumph of ludic retronostalgia. Julian Corries performs at the bottom of a pool, surrounded by joysticks, old consoles, monitors, and keyboards. Computer keyboards, that is. All those cables and wires remind me of a Manetas' painting.
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Waco Resurrection (2003 - 2004) All images courtesy of the artists A seminal piece of Game Art developed by Michael Wilson, Eddo Stern, Jessica Hutchins, Brody Condon, Peter Brinson and Mark Allen: "Revisiting the 1993 Waco, Texas episode, gamers enter the mind and form of a “resurrected” David Koresh through
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A video re-cap of one of the most exciting Game Art festivals in the US. More highlights below: LINK: UCLA Gamelab Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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This is quite phenomenal: " Super Mario world-record speedrun + Plumbing inspection footage = Frantic pipe exploration. Speedrun completed by Andrew Gardikis, December 15 2011" (Kent Sheely). This would be a good time to (re)watch Henry Lowood's 2010 talk, "Players are Artists Too": LINK: Kent
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Peacekeeper [Love is a Losing Game] is part of Georgie Roxby Smith's Call of Duty Game Intervention series and is the follow up to Intervention. Here's the documentation: LINK: Georgie Roxby Smith related: interview Submitted by Matteo Bittanti:
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Source: http://europein8bits.com/ Can't wait to see this! Europe in 8 Bits is the new documentary by Spanish director Javier Polo (Turanga Films), due in 2014. "Europe in 8 Bits is a documentary that explores the world of chip music and related art, that is growing
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Source: Yamil Burguener Argentinian artist Yamil Burguener's new installation, yo++ , was recently on display at Game on! El arte en juego . CCEC 2013. yo++ is a game without functional goals that simulates a conversation between the represented reality and the represented subject. The piece raises questions about identity
3D ANIMATION
PLATINE is an annual festival in Cologne focusing on the intersection of digital art and video games, which has its roots in the demoscene. Among the highlights of the 2013 edition are cage was a n00b 3.0 (Tobias Hartmann , Remmy Canedo, Sergei Maingardt) and Signal Loss (Philip Carbotta, Hannes
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Andy Warhol, tennis player Coll.eo's homage to one of the greatest American athletes of the 20th century, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987), consists of a new video piece and text. Here's an excerpt: " Andy Warhol was an American professional tennis player.
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The latest project from Greek artist Orestis Lazos, a Graduate of School of Visual and Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department, is W:O:A.. a new game that recreates famous artworks by the likes of Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Rene Magritte, Jeff Koons, Vincent Van Gogh and many
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Developed by Orestis Lazos in 2011, Hellas Riots is a Counter-Strike mod that re-creates the clash between Greek protesters and police forces and it is based on the incidents that took place in several Greek cities, in December 2008. As Lazos writes, "The game is staged in