THEATER - GameScenes

GAME ART

Game Art: machinaEx's game-inspired performances (2011)

"machina eX is a group of young media and theatre artists designing computergames in real life environments. instead of sitting in front of a screen and a keyboard, in our games you play in real rooms, using real items. machina eX creates unforgettable events somewhere between point and click

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Event: "Game Play: A celebration of Videogame Performance Art" (New York, July 7 – 31, 2011)

"A Celebration of Video Game Performance Art. Now in its 3rd year, the video game performance festival continues in what Seth Schiesel of the New York Times called “the most ambitious effort I know of to fuse the techniques and live presentation of theater with the themes, structures and

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Event: Alexandar Castaneda and Mark Popeney's "irl: In Real Life" (05/26/2011 - 05/29/2011, HOOLIGAN Theatre Company,Los Angeles)

"August is an ex-gamer addict who is trying to pull his life back together with his girlfriend Molly. Against her wishes, August decides to keep a promise and meet up with his friends at a gaming convention. After being confronted by his former guildmates about his relationship with a

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Game Art: Jasmine Morand's "Press to Start" (2010)

"Cela ressemble à la réalité, cela a le goût de la réalité, cela bouge comme la réalité, mais les actions possibles sont toujours spectaculaires, défiant toute loi physique. Un univers dans lequel il vous est impossible de distinguer les vrais acteurs des faux, les vrais éléments de décor des

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Game Art: Jake Merkin's "Catch" (2010)

"CATCH is a project I put together after a series of disappointing interactions with art. I felt very alienated from high art and was upset by the impression that it was something that was designed to exclude viewers instead of inviting participation. I wanted to make something that was

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Game Art: Francesca Fini's "The Shadow" (2010)

Francesca Fini, "The Shadow", performance art, interaction design, sounds & graphics, 2010data gloves by Bionica4Dummies (Fini & Trimarchi) ""To be or not to be?" The question is made by remixing the words of Sir Laurence Olivier in his Hamlet. The question is always the same,

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Game Art: Christopher Maraffi's "3D Avatar Dance" (2010)

"My Avatar Dance live performance draws inspiration from and gives homage to classic pantomime, vaudeville, and dance movements of the past, while updating their interactivity for the future. The routine includes variations of the Mirror Gag, Rope Pull and Ladder Climb Mime, Breakdancing Battle, and a Juggling Toss. To

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Game Art: Projekt Ariel's "Playing Shakespeare" (2008)

"Live performance by the German theatre/media arts group "Projekt A.R.I.E.L." (ARTificial Research In Electronical Live) in 2008 toying around on stage with the features of the FarCry SturmMod. Latter provides an environment in which the places and actions described by William Shakespeare

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Game Art: Recoil's "Fuck You Buddy" (2010)

""F**k You, Buddy" is a visual and dramatic fusion of “game theory” (a mathematical attempt to predict human behaviour) and the dramaturgical development in computer games over the last decade. From the totalitarian collectivism in games like “Lemmings” to the anarchistic individualism in