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Tardigotchi

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Tardigotchi is an artwork featuring two pets: a living organism and an alife avatar. These two disparate beings find themselves the unlikely…

Inside a Dead Skyscraper

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Inside a Dead Skyscraper is the newest project by Molleindustria, a music video game for the song “The building” by Jesse Stiles. The game and the song…

Epic Win

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Our lives are full of quests. Remember that birthday card, send that email, or drag ourselves to the gym on a regular basis. Trouble is, sometimes…

Avatar days

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Originally created for the Darklight Festival’s ‘4 Day Movie’ project, Avatar Days is a portrait of four online gamers in Dublin whose daily lives contrast with…

8-Bit City

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The 8-Bit Cities project, which started with 8-Bit NYC, is an attempt to make the city feel foreign yet familiar, smashing together two culturally…

Digital: A Love Story

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Digital: A Love Story is a game by Christina Love set entirely within an Amiga Workbench desktop. “A computer mystery/romance set five minutes…

Every Day The Same Dream

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Every day the same dream, by Molleindustria, is a slightly existential riff on the theme of alienation and refusal of labor. The idea was to charge…

Browser Pong

Browser Pong...

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The typical browsing experience is conducted through a single application window. This is indeed a useful, practical thing. Browser Pong instead exists…

Avatar Machine

Avatar Machine...

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The virtual communities created by online games have provided us with a new medium for social interaction and communication. Avatar Machine, by…

Xbox 360 Self Portraits

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Xbox 360 Self Portraits, by Marque Cornblatt, are executed within various games available on the Xbox 360 game console. The artist’s avatar and all other…

They Watch

They Watch...

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They Watch, by Workspace Unlimited, is an immersive art installation with virtual characters literally watching visitors. Several duplicates of the virtual…

Roomba Pac-Man

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“The vacuum, long an instrument for chasing cats, has now been turned against its own. What better use for automatic home appliances than to have…

Freeborders Tetris

Freeborders Tetris...

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A crew of Freeborders took over a San Francisco street to create a real life video game. Which game? Tetris of course. The tetraminoes are giant neon…

Electronic Snowball Fight

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Electronic Snowball Fight is a life-sized, electronic game for your yard, based on an Arduino microprocessor. The necessary code and schematics…

Headbang Hero

Headbang Hero...

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Headbang Hero, by Tiago Martins, Ricardo Nascimento and Andreas Zingerle is a music/dance video game for testing your headbanging…

Sportpong

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Sportpong is an interactive physical computer game. The field is projected on the floor, two or more players can fight in teams against each other…

Dear Esther

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Dear Esther, an Half-Life 2 mod, is part of a research project based at the University of Portsmouth, UK. The aim was to use Source to create…

The Path

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The Path is a short horror game – developed by Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn’s Tale of Tales – inspired by older versions of Little Red Ridinghood…

Mark Essen

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Mark Essen is a game artist living in Los Angeles and he recently received his B.A. from Bard College. His games have been shown at music venues…

Hi-res Tetris

Hi-res Tetris...

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Last week Cory Doctrow posted this link on Boing Boing. It is a brilliant, absurd and unplayable version of the famous videogame Tetris…

ComputerMusic4Kidz

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ComputerMusic4Kidz, by Marieke Verbiesen, is an interactive electronic music installation for kids, inviting them to explore the history…

WoW Pod

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Cati Vaucelle, Steve Shada, Marisa Jahn’s WoW Pod is an architectural space that provides and anticipates all life needs of the World of Warcraft…

The Joydick

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The Joydick is a wearable haptic device for controlling video gameplay based on realtime male masturbation. Through the use of…

Game Art

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The exhibition Game Art (Mejan Labs, Stockholm) will take a closer look on how artists have used computer games, modified, copied and deconstructed…

Jodi.org. Composite club

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VertexList space presents Composite club, a solo exhibition by the legendary new media collaborative JODI. JODI, or jodi.org, are unanimously…

Aestetica videoludica

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Dai disegni di fine anni ‘90, passando attraverso i paesaggi virtuali dei videogame sino alle araldiche contemporanee e ai ritratti dipinti dei…

Gamescenes / Gamescapes

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GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames is the first volume entirely dedicated to Game Art. Edited by Matteo Bittanti and Domenico Quaranta…

8 bit at MOMA

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The Museum of Modern Art (New York) presents the world premiere of 8 BIT (2006), a feature-length documentary exploring…

Shoot me if you can

Shoot me if you can...

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Shoot me if you can is an urban game inspired by first person shooting online video game. Replace gun with fun, and shoot the opponent team…

GAM3R 7H30RY

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GAM3R 7H30RY 1.1 is a networked book. The Institute for the Future of the Book, together with McKenzie Wark, created this project to investigate…

Contemporary Emblems

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Mauro Ceolin’s latest project, Contemporary Emblems, is a series of insigna that playfully mix videogame icons with other popular culture references…

Jodi in New York

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EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix) and Rhizome present renowned digital artists JODI in a rare public demonstration of their latest video game…

L’arte videoludica di Mauro Ceolin

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Humanities Lab presenta una retrospettiva sulle opere multimediali di Mauro Ceolin, l’artista italiano più significativo nel panorama internazionale…

McDonald’s videogame

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Dirigere una multinazionale come McDonald’s è tutt’altro che facile! Controlla ogni fase del processo: dal pascolo alla macellazione, dalla gestione…

TileToy

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TileToy is a modular, electronic game prototype for tangible LED game tiles. TileToy brings the flexibility inherent in digital software to a physical…

Samorost

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Amanita design was founded in Brno (Czech Republic) in 2003 by Jakub Dvorsky. Their most fascinating work is called Samorost, a flash game which…

Reportage di guerra

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Arenae è il nuovo progetto di Marco Cadioli, artista d’ispirazione Neen e primo fotografo del Web. Si tratta di un autentico reportage fotografico…

Spam Art

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Spam has become an unavoidable element of the networks. Annoying, intrusive, invasive, but always present. Its language, images and viral…

Games are art

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Games are Art is a new resource about videogame culture. Founded by Santiago Siri, young but already experienced game developer, the website…

Cosplay

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E’ on line una nuova serie di disegni vettoriali firmati Mauro Ceolin. L’artista, che conduce da tempo una ricerca sul mondo dei videogames e sulle icone…

Playstation preparate

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Prepared Playstation, in linea con una ormai consolidata tradizione di game hacking, utilizza la nota console come materiale di partenza, insieme a…

Alieni a Bangkok

Alieni a Bangkok...

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Newsletter a tappeto da The Invader. Il famoso artista francese che contamina le strade del mondo con i suoi alieni ispirati al videogioco Space Invaders…

First Person

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First Person raccoglie riflessioni e discussioni tra creatori e teorici dei new media. Per indagare le relazioni tra storia e gioco…

Tra moglie e marito…

Tra moglie e marito&...

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Façade è un esperimento di narrativa elettronica basato su un sistema di intelligenza artificiale. Si tratta di un racconto-gioco completamente…

Aural Squash

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Aural Squash riprende la tipica meccanica dei paddle games: una pallina si muove per lo schermo, con il giocatore chiamato a colpirla con la…

Rom Color

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L’hacking delle console e dei giochi Nintendo è diventata ormai una pratica piuttosto diffusa. Basti pensare a Mario Soup di Ben Fry (2003) o al più noto…