VIDEO
Kent Lambert, Reckoning 3, HD video, color, sound, 2013, 11' 14" Kent Lambert's impressive 2014 video work, RECKONING 3, is now in the public domain and available online. Comprising sequences, images, and sounds culled from popular video games, this work is an anthropological and performative exploration
GAME ART
Miguel Gomes, Pre Evolution Soccer's One-Minute Dance After a Golden Goal in the Master League, machinima: 2004, Color, Sound, 1' 02" Edited by Telmo Churro, Produced by Miguel Fonseca Miguel Gomes, Pre Evolution Soccer's One-Minute Dance After a Golden Goal in the Master League,
GAME ART
Kent Sheely's amazing Ready for Action (2012- ongoing) series is an ever evolving project. The latest iteration consists of a grid version that combines four stand-alone, previously released episodes, remediating the format of CCTV cameras, with its variety of perspectives and angles. The mixed reality aspect (the soundtrack
machinima
Laura Solana's Habbo Machinima Thiago Antunes's A Empregada Caue Master Games' O Assalto! CeeGee Gamer's Acordando no futuro
ART GAME
Recursive Romero, doomed to repeat his performance over and over again in virtual hell. New maddening modding work by Filippo Scaboro. LINK: Filippo Scaboro
GAME ART
Tate Exchange Switch House, Level 5 Tate Modern Bankside London SE1 9TG Larry Achiampong and David Blandy will present the Finding Fanon trilogy at Tate Modern in London on Tuesday 6th December, between 19:30-20:30. The artists will be previewing the third episode in the series, Finding Fanon Part
GAME ART
Jacky Connelly, Hudson Valley Ruins, 2016 (excerpt). Video, color, sound, 30". Hudson Valley Ruins, Connelly's new, ambitious machinima created with The Sims, i s now online at Vdrome . Full description below: Depicting various domestic spheres of a suburban north American context, Hudson Valley Ruins is a machinima
GAME ART
A poetic meditation by Kent Sheely on the virtual pedestrians of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas whose existence is both irrelevant and meaningless, instrumental and expendable. The prolific artist writes about the precarious lives of these characters: "Sometimes they encounter another person & immediately strike up a conversation we&
ART GAME
IP Yuk-Yui reinvents a classic work of existentialism, Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus, a s an experimental video game which invites the player to rethink the meaning of action, free will, and human intentionality. This contemporary, interactive version consists of two related but autonomous versions: S for Sisyphus
GAME ART
More waiting, more absurdity in Kent Sheely's new video, Put it on my tap. Former detective Max Payne awaits drinks in various bars he's just shot up. LINK : Kent Sheely
CONCEPTUAL
A multi-channel video installation that examines the misogynistic gameplay of Cover Girl Strip Poker, a 1991 MS-DOS computer game, (Hohum)...it's gonna be a looong game deconstructs the crude embodiments of male desire which integrates the objectification of the female body with disfiguring early computerized graphics and interactivity.
ESSAY
This is phenomenal. In the 1989 adult-oriented computer series, Leisure Suit Larry wanders the jungle of a colonized village searching for love, which he finds, after a multitude of failed romantic interactions, with Passionate Patti, a perfect and unattainable woman. In an act of cathexis, Larry's energies concentrate