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Another brilliant project by Patrick LeMeiux (an artist and game designer from Duke University), Stephanie Boluk (a scholar and media theorist from Pratt Institute) and Daniel Tankersley (an artist on faculty at Western Oregon University), Pinball Wizard pays homage to pinball machines with a self-playing modded installation that features an
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Olav Val's Satin Lover is part of the Pure Perfection series, which focus on commodity fetishism and marketing rhetoric. The first two works in the series Satin Lover and Supreme Collection are interactive meditations on the associative relationships between market research and product innovation. Satin Lover deals with
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An excerpt from Rewell Altunaga's new machinima, Elegía. LINK: Rewell Altunaga and the Cuban Game Art Scene Submitted by Matteo Bittanti Related articles Interview: Rewell Altunaga and the Cuban Game Art Scene
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Eddo Stern, Still Life With Putin (with Cyril Kuhn), computer game, 2014The Beall Center for Art + Technology in Irvine, California presents Eddo Stern: New Works. Curated by David Familian, the exhibition features five game based projects: Darkgame 4.0, Vietnam Romance, Still Life With Putin, House Stern Pachinko, and Cruise
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Joseph DeLappe's latest performance Me and My Predator, takes place in RL. The project reminds me of Aram Bartholl's WoW and Waffa Bilal's 3rdi. An intriguing mix but also a truly original take on dronephilia. What is Me and My Predator? As DeLappe explains:
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Cable Griffith, Deception Pass, 2014, acrylic on panel, 24 x 30 inchesThis amazing painting was selected for the cover design of Parcel's Spring/Summer issue, a great literary mag is out of Lawrence, Kansas. Here's more.PreviouslyLINK: Cable GriffithSubmitted by Matteo Bittanti Related articles Event: Cascadia
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Kristoffer Zetterstrand, Erase To History, 2015 (planned)Kristoffer Zetterstrand's new work is a tile mosaic commissioned for the Vikingstad Skola Visualization animation. Planned for construction 2015. Looks outstanding!PreviouslyAnd in case you missed this terrific artist's talk at the Smithsonian, here's a reminder: LINK:
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Ashley Anderson, Our Lady of the Headshot, Ballpoint pen, 2014LINK: Ashley Anderson Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Another spectacular event organized by Isabelle Arvers at Gamerz: a machinima mini-festival featuring works by Angela Washko, Anita Fontaine and Georgie Roxby Smith titled Machinigirrlzzz and hosted by the Fondation Vasarely. As Arvers writes:"Machinigirrlzzz is an exhibition of machinimas (movies created through video games), made by women only.
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French curator and critic Isabelle Arvers is organizing a two-day workshop about machinima to teenagers at the upcoming Game and Art Festival PLAY 14 in Hamburg, Germany. LINK : Machinima Workshop at PLAY 14 Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (via Isabelle Arvers)
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Another killer No Quarter Exhibition organized by the NYU Game Center. The fifth in the series features four new games from established and emerging independent game developers and will be hosted at the new Waka Waka space in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. The games are Dog Park by
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"Taking place in Braamfontein, A MAZE. / Johannesburg 2014 is set to become one of the hottest spots for games and playful media in Africa. Festival director and A MAZE. founder Thorsten S. Wiedemann says the A MAZE. 2014 programme is jam packed: “We are excited to bring together the