EVENT
From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Soraya Murray, Assistant Professor in the Film & Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz critically explores blockbuster games like The Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops: The Line, Tomb Raider and Assassin’s Creed to show
3D ANIMATION
Lawrence Lek's new project expands his previous exploration into the future of art, capitalism, and gaming (consider, for instance, Unreal Estate). His new dystopian VR game is titled Play Station™ and it dangerously resembles an episode of Black Mirror: Set in 2037, Play Station™ takes place in a
3D ANIMATION
Installation shot at Shape Up or Ship out, Breeze Creatives in Newcastle, Image by LeftLeg gallery. With The only thing lacking in this second body is the living flesh of the first body, Monica Rohtmaa aka Motsonian explores the paradoxes of corporeality in virtual spaces. This two channel video juxtaposes
GAME ART
Cory Arcangel, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds, 2005, installed at Art Basel 2017Installation, 2 hacked Nintendo Entertainment System game cartridges, 2 Nintendo Entertainment System game consoles, artist softwareMIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds is Arcangel's first work intentionally made to be an installation. It features
ART GAME
Curated by skot deeming and Martin Zeilinger Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing digital games and creative media practices. Presenting works across a dynamic range of exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, and workshops, Vector acts as a critical bridge between emergent digital platforms and new media
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Carlos Martorell aka Shoeg is a sound artist exploring videogame engine possibilities for visual discourses in between machinima, topography, human relationships, film work and pre-2k aesthetics. His latest work is a fan video for a friends' band called Desert. The song is "Sense Likes" (CSCN, 2017). The
AI
"Our AI friend here, Charles, is a convolutional neural network that learns to drive through deep learning. At the moment, Charles learns and takes all actions based on single frames at a time, and bases his decisions on just pixel data. Charles only sees exactly what you see. In
3D ANIMATION
The new project by Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Primal Tourism (2016), is an impressive multimedia tour-de-forc e featuring a virtual reality art work, a series of prints, and a complete walk through. The recently created Island (2017) is an installation based on Primal Tourism, a virtual reality art project,
3D ANIMATION
Ragtime is a 2015 computer simulation by British electronic arts duo Gibson and Martelli. Created through the process of procedural animation (commonly known as ragdoll), the video shows the contortions of a dying figure. The artists created an endlessly collapsing ragdoll character. Gibson/Martelli, Ragtime, 2015, physics simulationLINK : Gibson/Martelli
GAME ART
Australian artist Chris Howlett's new project is an ambitious machinima tetralogy titled Tutorialized I-IV. The first video piece, Tutorialized I: Guns & Ammo, has been released online in preview form. Howlett describe the project in these terms: These video works examine the complicit nature of online pedagogy and
GAME ART
A fascinating machinima by Bob Bicknell-Knight depicting a textual conversation between the artist and a bot within the architectural spaces, post-natural landscapes, and urban vistas of the Mass Effect video game series. The result - an interior monologue that doubles as an exercise in futuristic interior design - is captivating
VIDEO
A recursive interactive artwork from Japanese artist Akihiko Taniguchi: the main screen displays Super Mario Bros. playable with the NES controller, but when the player "jumps" by pressing a button on the joypad, the screen shows a previous jump, enacted by the artist. This creates a powerful ludic