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Anna Eyler's new artwork is just brilliant. "Evoking at once the nature documentary and peep show, How to Explain Love to a Tape Measure is a series of machinima vignettes featuring flexible, geometric forms interacting within the Second Life world." (Eyler) Anna Eyler (b. 1987) is
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Kent Sheely continues his ethnographic investigation of weak social ties, mundane non-life, and daily rituals in videogames. Granted, waiting for public transportation in The Division does not seem particularly enticing. But what are the alternatives? The neoliberal exploitation of that anti-union monstrosity on wheels otherwise known as Uber? Calling your
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On the phenomenology of online gaming. Terrific piece. LINK : Bob Bricknell-Knight
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Kent Sheely, Ready for Action #10: The Division, 2016, machinima, 05' 31" American new media artist Kent Sheely has produced another video in the ongoing series Ready for Action. Emulating the style of CCTV footage and surveillance cameras, the artist uses several video games to create situations at
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One of the most interesting trends in machinima these days is contemplative, land-art inspired video work. Consider Ashley Blackman. To create Walking through my back garden, the artist explicitly mentions Richard Long' s practice of recording his walks... Richard Long, A Line Made by Walking 1967, source: TATE ... but
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GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY APRIL 4 – JULY 31, 2016 OPENING: APRIL 4, 2016 AT 6 PM OPEN SPACE CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION HALL, IULM VIA CARLO BO 7, 20143 MILAN, ITALY ARTISTS: LARRY ACHIAMPONG & DAVID BLANDY, REWELL ALTUNAGA, HUGO ARCIER, MARTA AZPARREN, JOSH BRICKER, JOSEPH DELAPPE, CLAIRE EVANS, CHRIS HOWLETT,
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Yasururu Sororo is "an imaginary encyclopedia of Paraguayan history in video game format" created by video artist Daniel Milessi and presented in the Paraguayan pavilion of the 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. This revisionist history deals with the plight of a country from colonialism to
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Tommy Chain, Enduring Freedom, Mixed-media sculpture & video, Dimensions variable, video 4.05 min, HD video, stereo sound, Concrete, steel, extruded styrene, paint, c stand, TV, 2015 "Enduring Freedom is a discomix tableau that utilizes the form of a FPS computer game, a consumer media object with naïve political
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Dave Ball, I've Always Wanted to Drive Across America, 2016; (video documentation of) installation with playable 'Desert Bus' video game, accompanied by spoken-word soundtrack in which the artist describes from memory every overseas trip he has ever made. My comment is frankly redundant, but I'
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Tabor Robak, Dog Park, two-channel video, self generative computer animation, 2015 A former graphic designer who used to design the billboards in Times Square, Tabor Robak has elevated videogame aesthetics into a new visual language that is, at once, proudly one-dimensional and shiny-slick. Dog Park remediates the computer screen saver
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Tabor Robak, Free-To-Play, 4-channel HD Video, custom software 1 hour, dimensions variable With Free-to-Play (all works 2013), Brooklyn-based artist Tabor Robak emulates Candy Crush Saga's visual aesthetics to create a one-hour installation celebrating distraction, visual stimuli, and multi-tasking. Mimicking interactivity, Free-to-Play shows overlapping columns of game-like icons, collapsing
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A short video shot within Grand Theft Auto V by filmmaker and photographer Roland Spencer. LINK:Roland Spencer