Essay: Architecture Levels
In: GameStudies
2 Jul 2009What follows is Matteo lo Prete‘s discussion on videogames and architecture.
Here’s an excerpt (the full text is attached):
“Before analysing level design as a sophisticated devising technique, used by highly qualified professional designers to create video-ludic settings, which, afterwards, will be enjoyed by a large number of players; Read the rest of this entry »
News: GameScenes gets its own blog
In: GameScenes
22 Jun 2009GameScenes, originally a channel of videoludica.com dedicated to Game Art, is now a full-fledged blog edited by Matteo Bittanti.
Among the first entries are news related to Marco Bambilla, Miltos Manetas, Monica Jacobo, Damiano Colacito, and Celia Pearce’s project Ludica.
If you’re interested in collaborating, please Read the rest of this entry »
Essays: Computer Games Between Text and Practice
In: GameStudies
22 Jun 2009Italy’s premier semiotics journal E/C has just published a fantastic collection of essays under the title “Computer Games. Between Text and Practice“, edited by Patrick Coppock and Dario Compagno. The anthology – available in print form – can be freely accessed online as well (Thank you, Dario!).
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GameArt: Riley Harmon’s Watermelons
In: GameScenes
5 May 2009Riley Harmon’s latest installation (selected for his senior BFA exhibition”) “A Watermelon in the World” is a playful take on Counter-Strike. This original ‘contemporary hybrid artist’, whom I had the pleasure to interview a while ago, describes is new work in these terms
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Event: Virtual Worlds (Mountain View, CA, March 30)
In: GameStudies
13 Mar 2009Websites: A-Maze
In: GameScenes
2 Mar 2009Founded in January, 2008, by Thorsten S. Wiedemann and Michael Liebe, A MAZE Festival “Celebrates the convergence of computer games and art. Computer games are based on more than new technologies, they present a way of life surpassing the basics of fun and gameplay”. The founders’ ambition is”to present and Read the rest of this entry »
Floating Points 6: Games of Culture/Art of Games (Emerson College, March 20-21)
In: GameScenes
2 Mar 2009Floating Points 6: Games of Culture | Art of Games
A Film Screening, Symposium and Workshops with Asi Burak, Anita Fontaine, Jesper Juul, Friedrich Kirschner, Marcin Ramocki, Jason Rohrer, Adriana de Souza Silva, Mushon Zer-Aviv
Date: March 20-21, 2009
Venue: Emerson College, Boston + streamed live on the Read the rest of this entry »
Game Art: Gamerz 04 (Aix-en-Provence, Jan 8 – Feb 6 2009)
In: GameScenes
30 Dec 2008The excellent Game Art series of events Gamerz 04 continues! The fourth edition will take place in Aix-en-Provence, France between Jan 8 – Feb 6 2009.
The event will feature 30 international artists, workshops, seminars and “immersive media dancing” (!). A must see. Here’s a teaser…
Game Art: Eva & Franco Mattes (Mumbai, Jan 9-24 2009)
In: GameScenes
30 Dec 2008Eva and Franco Mattes
TRAVELING BY TELEPHONE
January 3 – 24, 2009
Reception for the artists: Saturday, January 3, at 12 noon
There will be a walk through the exhibition followed by brunch
Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke
2 Sunny House, 16/18 Mereweather Road
Behind Taj Mahal Hotel, Read the rest of this entry »
On November 13 2008, Salvatore Jaconesi and Oriana Persico presented “One Avatar” at Milano Digitale, a one-day art happening that focused on the intersections between art and digital culture. “One Avatar” is an installation featuring a 3D game in which players could shoot the “OneAvatar” character, causing electric shocks to Read the rest of this entry »
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