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Free entry! Mechanics Manifesto! What else can you ask for? Here's the 2014 event description: "gameZfestival is a festival for game design and games. The initial Festival was all about game mechanics. This year's dominant topic is "play together". The first video games
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In this short video, Patrick McNeil, 1/2 of FAILE, introduces the FAILE Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade Edinburgh 2014, an exhibition featuring specially programmed video games and pinball machines. The show, which debuted in December of 2013 at Art Basel Miami 2013, is based on the idea of audience participation.
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Kent Sheely, Ready for Action, grid #1, 2013. WIRED magazine published a compelling profile of Game Artist Kent Sheely. Here's an excerpt: "Today, in-game photography is a well-explored gaming off-shoot. The latest installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise actually encourages players to take selfies. But in
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Lowtoy Festival #1 25-27/09/2014Festival Internacional de 8 Bit & DIY Electrònica de BarcelonaLocation: Fundació AAVC Hangar - Emilia Coranty 16 BarcelonaTime: 15:00 - midnightPrice: 7€ puerta/door - 5€ anticipada/advance"Lowtoy is glad to announce, the first 8 Bit & DIY Electronics Festival of Barcelona.
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Birdly is a full body flight simulator and virtual reality machine in which the players embodies a bird, the Red Kite, with sensory-motor coupling. Visualized through Oculus Rift, soar through the virtual landscape of San Francisco with a 3D model from PLW modelworks, heightened by sonic, olfactoric, and wind feedback
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Hunter Jonakin has released "A walkthrough for Modern Flaneur", based on his 2013 interactive game Modern Flaneur (full title: Can You Hear Me Now? You'll Never Hear Me Again or Modern Flaneur: Extreme Wanderlust). Combining Charles Baudelaire with George Orwell, the Minneapolis-based digital artist redefines walking
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We lost one of the most eclectic artists of the 20th Century, German filmmaker, philosopher, and videogamer Harun Farocki. His contributions to Game Art were outstanding. I would like to remember him with Parallel (2012), a 17-minute video essay on the status of computer-animated images, and Serious Games (2009), a
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Brooklyn-based photographer and film director Casey Brooks has recently completed a photo essay on Grand Theft Auto V. Titled You Only Live Forever, it looks like this LINK : Casey Brooks Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (via Kotaku)
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Curated by Malcolm Levy, artist and curator, and Kimberly Voll, game designer and Isabelle Arvers, curator Evolution of Gaming is a retrogaming exhibition that will take place at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, Canada between August 1-10 2014. Specifically, Evolution represents the history of gaming from its roots
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I had the pleasure of having Mark Johnson in my GAMESCENES course at California College of the Arts in the Spring of 2014. This semester, Mark wrote a terrific essay on Pippin Barr titled "Art games About Art" which he has been kind enough to share with the
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Another stunning project from Chris Howlett. Unclassifiable from the very start: "his video piece lies somewhere between a document and a work in itself. It is not a documentary film, reality TV, or a film in the conventional sense. This moving image work can either be viewed as a
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Eddo Stern has released a series of teaser of his new project starring the one and only Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Intriguing, to say the least... LINK : Eddo Stern Submitted by Matteo Bittanti