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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.

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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.

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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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11 17 2008
GameScenes

Game Art: OneAvatar @ Milano in Digitale (Milan, Nov 13 2008)

by Matteo Bittanti
Game Art: OneAvatar @ Milano in Digitale (Milan, Nov 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 hit the body of the player wearing the OneAvatar suit, creating a physical connection between our physical bodies and our identities in the digital worlds.

11 11 2008
GameStudies

Book: Les Cahiers du Jeu Vidéo

by Matteo Bittanti
Book: Les Cahiers du Jeu Vidéo Tony Fortin is the editor-in-chief of "Les Cahiers du Jeu Vidéo", a new series of thematic books on game culture currently on sale in France. The first volume focuses on the simulation of war. The criticism is multi-textual: aesthetic, ideological.

10 29 2008
GameScenes

Event: Gamerz 03 (Istanbul, Turkey - Nov 7 - 17 2008)

by Matteo Bittanti
Event: Gamerz 03 (Istanbul, Turkey - Nov 7 - 17 2008)

The third edition of GAMERZ, a multimedia event that focuses on game culture and Game Art, will take place in Istambul, Turkey from November 7th to 17th and a 4th edition is already scheduled  to return to in Aix-en-Provence (France), on January 2009.
 

10 27 2008
GameStudies

Essay: The Game That Never Was

by Matteo Bittanti
Cheetahmen 2 has actually never been released. However, this videogame is very well known in the gamers’ community. This paper aims to investigate a few seemingly paradoxical issues. How does it happen that one is able to discuss about a game without actually being able to play it? Why is a game of which very few copies are available the object of the many remakes and remixes of its content, and how is it possible that its soundtrack is used in such a lot of different contexts? How can the players still talk about a game they can’t play, and even compare it with other products? Paolo Ruffino explores these - and other - fascinating questions...

10 22 2008
GameScenes

Event: Game Art Networking Event (London, 25th October)

by Matteo Bittanti
"Games Art does exactly what it says on the tin; art that uses, abuses and misuses the materials and language of games, whether real world, electronic or both. The Games Art networking event will bring together artists, gamers, hackers, theorists, curators, activists, thinkers and doers all of kind. People who work and play with games, videogames and playful practice. What Will Happen? Find out at the HTTP Gallery on Saturday 25th October, 12 - 6pm".

10 21 2008
GameScenes

Game Art: Audience & Avatar (Oct 24 - Dec 13, Tampa, Florida)

by Matteo Bittanti
Game Art: Audience & Avatar (Oct 24 - Dec 13, Tampa, Florida) Audience & Avatar brings together an international group of artists who explore diverse ways in which videogames, game culture, technology and psychology influence participation and representation of the viewer in art. The exhibition includes a wide range of media-digital painting, digital photography, photography, video, custom self-running games, and sculpture-exploring the tension between virtual space and real space, between game space and art space. Artists include: John Paul Bichard, Damiano Colacito, Jon Haddock, Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG), Eddo Stern and Phillip Toledano. Audience & Avatar also includes Modifications, a project gallery with new work by Brody Condon, in our West Gallery.

10 17 2008
GameScenes

Game Art: Game Over — Art Of The Gamer Generation (San Francisco, Oct 11-29)

by Matteo Bittanti
Game Art: Game Over — Art Of The Gamer Generation (San Francisco, Oct 11-29) Giant Robot is the genius mastermind behind Game Over, a group show that pays homage to the massive influence and continuous evolution of videogames. The impact and inspiration of videogames will be represented through a wide assortment of styles and genres provided by top artists in the fields of illustration, painting, sewing, and indie comics.

10 02 2008
GameScenes

Game Art: Games for Art's Sake

by Matteo Bittanti

Julian Oliver, Helen Stuckey, and Melanie Swalwell are launching a new game video collection hosted by the Internet Archive, called "games for art's sake". This collection is devoted to providing online documentation of both individual works and exhibitions of game art, art games and related work made "for art's sake". 



09 25 2008
GameScenes

Game Art: Unreal Art in Brescia (Sept 27 - Nov 8)

by Matteo Bittanti
Game Art: Unreal Art in Brescia (Sept 27 - Nov 8) Fabio Paris Art Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition of English artist Alison Mealey. Talented programmer and keen videogamer, Mealey is particularly interested in the strange relationship between conscious aesthetic exploration and the exploitation of uncontrollable automatic processes, and the clash between an intimist genre such as portrait painting and her form of "mapping" using a peculiar canvas/brush: first-person shooters. 

09 22 2008
GameScenes

Game Art: An update on Ripon

by Matteo Bittanti
Game Art: An update on Ripon Created by artists Troy Richards and Knut Hybinette "Ripon" is a series of installations integrating an original video game with large-scale digital prints that uses the setting of a violent Dystopic society to upset the conventions of gaming culture. "Ripon" was exhibited last March in Chicago at the Thomas Robertello Gallery and is now a finalist for a Creative Capital grant.

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