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SaveMe Oh does Diana Ross in this diabolic video about covidiocy. SaveMe Oh is just one of the several virtual alter-egos created by Oscar Wagenmans, a Dutch theatre director and actor. An eclectic figure inside and outside the virtual space, Wagenmans began his career as an actor in 1983 performing
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Edwin Lo Crucifixion and Epiphany October 2 - October 15 VRAL Introduced by Luca Miranda vral.org A follow up to Those Who Do Not Remember The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It (2020) and The Rupture of Promised Land (Or We Can Never Get There) (2020), Crucifixion and Epiphany
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ANIMAL CROSSING: ALL MINE digital video, color, sound, 7’ 05”, 2020 (United States) Created by Brent Watanabe VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Conspicuous consumption is the implicit goal of innumerable video games, but Animal Crossing: New Horizons is, by far, the most shameless celebration of capitalism. Released in March 2020,
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Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra has recently released Pixelation, an experimental machinima consisting of three Quake III fragmovies originally made in late 2010. As Veenstra explains, "All movies were created at the time to familiarize myself with the Q3MME mod and cinematic camera paths and not so much
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HOW TO FLY digital video, color, sound, 6’ 23”, 2020 (United Kingdom) Created by David Blandy How to Fly was originally presented by John Hansard Gallery in Southampton as part of the Digital Array programme supported by the Barker-Mill Foundation. VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Originally commissioned by John Hansard
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Colors Fade is a video clip created by Brazilian Estudio Bijari for the independent electronic trio Lumen Craft, an electronic pop trio from São Paulo, Brazil. Entirely filmed in virtual locations of Grand Theft Auto V, Colors Fade shows three different characters travelling through the landscapes of a dystopian future
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EVEN ASTEROIDS ARE NOT ALONE digital video, color, sound, 17’, 2019 (Iceland) VRAL Introduced by Matteo Bittanti In the vast and hostile world of New Eden, trust is not a given. How can one make friends in the depths of space? Even Asteroids Are Not Alone explores social relationships within
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A fascinating project by Victoria University of Wellington’s Senior Lecturer Miriam Ross and Helen Perkins (both from the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studie), AC Ulysses is an interactive machinima created with Ubisoft’s Story Creator mode for Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey meant as a remake of
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The fourth edition of the MACHINIMA FILM FESTIVAL will once again take place at IULM University (Milan, Italy) during the Milano Digital Week, which celebrates the driving forces that are reshaping art, culture, and technology of Italy’s most vibrant city. Filmmakers and video artists engaged in the practice of
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Petra Széman, Monomyth: gaiden/ Master of Two Worlds, 2020, digital video, color, sound 10' 40" Petra Széman's monumental Monomyth: gaiden series has reached its destination. With the latest and last installment Monomyth: gaiden/ Master of Two Worlds, Széman's the meta-referential, self-reflexive series that pay
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THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW Digital video, color, sound, 7’ 01”, 2020 July 17 - July 30 2020 Introduced by Luca Miranda Things are different now (2020) is both a variation of The Soft Crash (2020 – ongoing) and a complementary, consequential conversation with Brenton Alexander Smith’s other works I Feel
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Kim Heecheon, Sleigh Ride Chill, single channel video, 17' 27", 2016 In the 2016 single channel video Sleigh Ride Chill, Kim Heecheon combines three different aesthetics and themes a live-streaming session of a video game play, an online suicide club and a cautionary tale of a leaked sex