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Juliana Riska, Epuisement, digital video/machinima, 3' 51", 2015 Behind this clever meditation on walls and wall decoration by Juliana Riska, a French architecture student, lies a deep critique of capitalism and the mass production of uniqueness that informs its ideology: Le mur, symbole d'un aboutissement
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Bob Bicknell-Knight, Simulated Ignorance, digital video/machinima, 17' 50", 2016 A new piece by prolific artist Bob Bicknell-Knight, a Fine Art student at Chelsea College of Arts. Simulated Ignorance focuses on the repetition and automation of game mechanics, and the illusion about the equivalence between real life and
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Chris Labrooy, Tokyo, digital photographs, 2015 I love Chris Labrooy's "auto elastic" series. The project, which began in 2014 with Auto Aerobics, has evolved into Tokyo, a plastic meditation on Japan's car culture. The new work features a digital sculpture made with a Honda
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Kent Lambert's Hymn of Reckoning (2006) explores themes of combat, torture and grief using images and sounds from the TV series 24 and Lost, 1980s Nintendo games, and various known and unknown films. Kent Lambert is a Chicago-based musician and media artist. He worked from 2001 to 2004
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Oscar Manuel Nodal Mercado (b. Juárez, 1986) is a Mexican visual artist whose work explores glitch aesthetic and bit rot. Glitch upon a time in the west is a glitchy machinima created with the game Sleeping Dogs by United Front Games and Square Enix. Nodal holds a BFA in Visual
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In this short machinima, Bob Bicknell-Knight, a Fine Art student at Chelsea College of Arts, reflects upon "about the repetitive nature of life alongside the imprisonment of ourselves within routines." Aptly, the video uses footage from Sony's Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. The same concerns
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Kim Asendorf, 8bit Hill, performance, part of his Solo Show in Sim City, 2011 I recommend spending some time examining the full series, which includes Performances, Installations, and Readymades. Pure genius. LINK: Kim Asendorf
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Abstract landscapes created by Isabelle Arvers, possibly the most knowledgeable person on machinima on this planet. These videos were produced during Arvers' recent artist residency in Brazil (see below for documentation). As she writes on her blog: "In Brazil when I finally had some time between 2 workshops
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The action becomes more and more frantic, almost hysterical, in this video by Nicolas Boillot. This artwork was included in dead drop by Aram Bartholl vol.5 : BEST OF curated by Fach & Asendorf Gallery (February 8 – March 14, 2013) Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA. Nicolas Boillot
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Marco Strappato – Over Yonder Until February 13 2016 The Gallery Apart Via Francesco Negri 43 Rome, Italy In his artistic practice, Marco Strappato (b. 1982) uses the endless flux of images as a source of material, subverting, manipulating, reframing and representing in order to refresh our act of looking. This