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Rez. Code aesthetics, videogame art

Rez. Code aesthetics, videogame art The first academic analysis of Mizuguchi's Rez, one of the most original videogames in the history of the medium.

Rez. Code Aesthetics, Videogame Art is now available.

Inside the Screen

Inside the Screen Agata Meneghelli investigates the god game genre, examining the spatial, temporal, and ludic conventions of such games as SimCity, The Sims, Age of Empires and Civilization.

Inside the Screen. Immersion and Interactivity in God Games is now available.

ICO. A fairy-tale for the digital age

ICO. A fairy-tale for the digital age Fumito Ueda's masterpiece is the subject of this original analysis by British writer Ben Mottershead. The author suggests that ICO inherited the legacy of 19th century fairy-tales.

Available now

GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames

GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames is the first volume entirely dedicated to Game Art. Edited by Matteo Bittanti and Domenico Quaranta, GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames provides a detailed overview of the emerging field of Game Art, examining the complex interaction and intersection of art and videogames.

Available now.

Virtual Geographic

Virtual Geographic Virtual Geographic provides a series of illustrated essays on popular videogames. The books features a series of reportages in the virtual worlds, inspired by the National Geographic. Personal narratives, travelogues, explorations into (un)known lands.

Virtual Geographic is available now.

The World of the D'ni: Myst and Riven

The World of the D'ni: Myst and Riven "The World of the D'ni: Myst and Riven" is the first critical analysis of Robyn and Rand Miller's series.

The World of the D'ni: Myst and Riven is available now.

Silent Hill. The Terror Engine

Silent Hill. The Terror Engine Bernard Perron's investigation of Konami's survival horror series goes beyond the usual compare-and-contrast approaches with other similar texts, e.g. Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark. His transmedia analysis takes the reader for a literary, cinematic, and ludic journey they won't forget.

Silent Hill. The Terror Engine is available now.

Doom. The First Person Reader

Doom. The First Person Reader Doom. The First Person Reader is the first interdisciplinary volume to explore a range of topics regarding the aesthetics, politics and logics of the first person shooter genre, and specifically of id Software's Doom series, which gave birth to a new era of computer gaming.

Doom. The First Person Reader is available now.

Civilization. Virtual history, real fantasies

Civilization. Virtual history, real fantasies Civilization. Virtual History, Real Fantasies is the first interdisciplinary book that explores a range of topics regarding the aesthetics, politics and logics of Sid Meier's Civilization, its ideological implications and possible uses for education.

Civilization. Virtual History, Real Fantasies is available now.

Understanding Videogames

Understanding Videogames "Understanding videogames. Logics, Aesthetics and (V)ideologies" is a collection of essays that explore the gameplay, the aesthetics and the ideologies of digital games.

"Understanding videogames. Logics, Aesthetics and (V)ideologies" is available now.

 

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05 07 2008
GameScenes

Interview: Harmon Riley

by Matteo Bittanti
A few weeks ago we discussed Harmon Riley's innovative artwork, “What it is without the hand that wields it” (2008)  an electronic sculpture that allows players across the internet to connect and play Counter-Strike live on the server, and shows the 'real-life" of simulated warfare,  that is, each time a player dies, a java script written in Processing sends serial commands to the micro-controller, telling it to spray fake blood.". We asked Riley a few questions about his ongoing research on the phenomenology and aesthetics of games. Here's the full conversation...

04 11 2008
GameScenes

Event: Try Again (Madrid, April 10, August 6 2008)

by Matteo Bittanti
"Try Again" (La Casadel Encendida, Madrid, ES, 10.04.08 to 08.06.08) is designed as a global project including the exhibition itself, a video programme, a variety of performances and concerts, and a series of films, all of which aim to showcase the work of approximately 30 creators (visual artists, film directors and musicians).

04 11 2008
TechnoludicFilm

Event: From Cinema to Machinima -- Software, Database and the Moving Image (SF, April 14, 2008)

by Matteo Bittanti
A panel discussion and virtual performance event to explore ways the digital medium has reconfigured the moving image and thereby redefined concepts of cinema. The digital medium has transformed the moving image. Image sequences have become discrete units that can be remixed in new constellations, through software processes or interaction by the viewer. Digital interactivity is connected to databases. The possibility of assembling and reconfiguring media elements from a compilation of image sequences have created new cinematic forms.

04 08 2008
GameScenes

Interview: Eddo Stern

by Matteo Bittanti
Interview: Eddo Stern Rhizome has an interesting interview with Game Artist Eddo Stern. Here's a relevant passage of the conversation: "The emotional attachment that playing MMOs for extensive durations forces a melding of the player with their player character that essentially collapses the premise of roleplaying. That is to say, the hardcore players are no longer taking part in an act of "roleplaying" but are essentially playing as themselves in an alternate world as the relationships with real other human beings bring out..well..real emotions. In a single player game, say when a player character is disrespected, or in turn revered by an automaton NPC the emotional weight of the encounter is emotionally inconsequential (unless it affects game progress in which case we are getting into another issue altogether..)" (Eddo Stern, in a conversation with Ceci Moss)

04 03 2008
GameScenes

Game Art: “What it is without the hand that wields it” by Riley Harmon

by Matteo Bittanti
Game Art: “What it is without the hand that wields it” by Riley Harmon

With “What it is without the hand that wields it", Riley Harmon has created an electronic sculpture that comments on Counter-Strike's use of fictional violence and gore. “What it is without the hand that wields it" will be on display March 31st through April 4th at the University of Oklahoma School of Art.



04 02 2008
TechnoludicFilm

Book: Schermi interattivi. Il cinema nei videogiochi

by Matteo Bittanti
Book: Schermi interattivi. Il cinema nei videogiochi I am delighted to announce the imminent release of a new book on videogames. Titled Schermi interattivi. Il cinema nei videogiochi, (Interactive Screens. Cinema in games), this anthology of essays published by Meltemi Editore, in Italy focuses on the complex, and often contradictory relationship between videogames and film, between Hollywood and the Silicon Valley, between the act of watching a movie and playing a game.

03 30 2008
GameScenes

Game Art: Homo Ludens Ludens (Gijón/Spain, April 18 - September 22)

by Matteo Bittanti
Game Art: Homo Ludens Ludens (Gijón/Spain, April 18 - September 22) LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial presents HOMO LUDENS LUDENS, an international exhibition and conference examining play as a principal element of today’ s world, and highlighting its necessity for our contemporary societies. Following the exhibitions GAMEWORLD and PLAYWARE, that reflected respectively on the different playful and social sides of gaming creativity and interactive art, HOMO LUDENS LUDENS now sets the setting that embraces these data and looks into the notion of play in a wider spectrum, presenting how it has evolved in our digital times.

03 30 2008
GameScenes

Event: Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age

by Matteo Bittanti
Event: Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology is proud to present Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age, a collective exhibition featuring a unique panel of digital artworks created in the last ten years by internationally known new media artists, and coming from galleries and collections from around the world. Curated by iMAL director Yves Bernard and Italian curator Domenico Quaranta, Holy Fire is, in fact, featured into the “Off Program” of Art Brussels, the international contemporary art fair (April 18 - 21, 2008). Taking its cue from this occasion, Holy Fire is an attempt to explore how new media art, bypassing all the stereotypes connected with its presumed immateriality, was able to enter the art market.

03 26 2008
GameScenes

Game Art: Pong - the Arcade Analog Machine

by Matteo Bittanti
Game Art: Pong - the Arcade Analog Machine "Lisbon-based artist André Gonçalves's new project, Pong--the analog arcade machine comments on the increased use of technology by artists seeking to address cultural or historical epochs, such as the one in which the original game participates. Gonçalves has created an installation that mimics the original arcade version of Pong, recreating it in analog form and giving it a live-action spin," writes Marisa Olson at Rhizome.

03 21 2008
GameScenes

Game: The Graveyard

by Matteo Bittanti
Game: The Graveyard Tale of Tales have completed a new game, The Graveyard, "a very short game in which you play an elderly woman who visits a cemetery. The trial version is available for free. The full version costs $5. The only difference between the two is that in the full version, the protagonist may die."

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