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Playing the game. Videogiochi indipendenti in dialogo con arti e culture

Redazione DigicultDecember 1, 2014

Lo scorso 30 novembre 2014 a Milano, presso Santeria a Milano, Playing The Game, piattaforma interdisciplinare che da anni indaga il rapporto tra videogiochi, arti e culture, ha presentato Outré Videogames, un nuovo evento dal format innovativo, basato su una selezione di videogiochi eccentrici, insoliti e dalla natura non convenzionale mai apparsi in Italia... READ MORE...

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The Blank Arcade. Call for entries

Redazione DigicultNovember 13, 2014

Blank Arcade returns after its successful 2014 edition in Salt Lake City (Utah). Submitted works can include digital and analog games, video, intervention and traditional mediums. Deadline: 02/28/15... READ MORE...

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Media Arts & Game. Call for assistant professor

Redazione DigicultNovember 3, 2014

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Department of Communication is now accepting applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in the Media Arts and Game Development. Deadline: November 24, 2014... READ MORE...

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Videogames at MOMA. New Fruition Models in Contemporary Art

Paolo MagauddaDecember 18, 2013

In 2013 the MOMA in New York proposed to the public an exhibition entitled Applied Design and dedicated to tell some objects whose shapes and functions are placed in a specific area of convergence between aesthetic and utility, between art and applied use.... READ MORE...

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Playing the Game 2013: Conversations between Indie Games, Arts and Cultures

Redazione DigicultOctober 7, 2013

Playing The Game is a free public event focusing on conversations between independent games and different cultural expressions like art, music and design. This second edition of the event will be held in Milan (Italy) during the weekend of October 26-27 2013.... READ MORE...

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Cory Arcangel: Power Points

Redazione DigicultJuly 11, 2013

DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art is delighted to present the first major Canadian exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist Cory Arcangel. Trained initially in classical guitar and music technology at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Cory Arcangel is now recognized as a major exponent of a pop-tinged, computer-centred art.... READ MORE...

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Harun Farocki: Playing the Game

Redazione DigicultMay 2, 2013

From April 12 to June 9, the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art is presenting Harun Farocki's first comprehensive solo exhibition in northern Germany, Playing the Game.... READ MORE...

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Indie videogames are going big, some voices from Italy

Zoe RomanoMarch 7, 2013

These are the words of one of the main characters of the Sundance-Festival-acclaimed documentary Indie Game, describing his relationship with his job, or better say, his mission. The two filmmakers (but also authors, producers, distributors), after to rounds of Kickstarter, went through 300 hours of shooting distilling the stoires of some indie videogamers in the effort of having a dream come true: release their game at the risk of sacrificing their money, health and mental balance.... READ MORE...

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Game Play Performance. Deadline 01/03/13

Redazione DigicultFebruary 8, 2013

The Gameplay Festival will once again feature cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video gaming and performance and is now accepting submissions from a variety of artists... READ MORE...

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Different Games Conference. Call for Proposal. Deadline 1/2/2013

Redazione DigicultJanuary 17, 2013

The Department of Technology, Culture and Society at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute invites submissions of original games, scholarly research, and workshop proposals for Different Games.... READ MORE...

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Foundations of digital games 2013. Call for submissions

Redazione DigicultNovember 30, 2012

FDG 2013, the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, is a focal point for academic efforts in all areas of research and education involving games, game technologies, gameplay, and game design... READ MORE...

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CHI 2013. Games & Entertainment. Call for Submissions

Redazione DigicultNovember 30, 2012

Games and Entertainment is a featured community, which includes researchers and practitioners. Games and Entertainment are part of our daily lives, and represent a growing segment of practice for field in which we operate... READ MORE...

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Raquel Meyers and the Teletext transmission

Mathias JanssonNovember 5, 2012

Raquel Meyers (Cartagena, 1977) works with low-res graphics and photography for performance, web, video and installations. Currently she's experimenting with storytelling and text mode visuals (ASCII, PETSCII, etc) together with the musician Goto80. In September this year Raquel Meyers participated in Teletext festival ARD in Berlin.... READ MORE...

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Doc / Postdoc Research Fellowship on Gamification

Redazione DigicultOctober 16, 2012

The Centre for Digital Cultures in Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany, explores the conditions and effects of the production and circulation of computer & mobile games... READ MORE...

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International pitch competition for Bosch Art Game

Redazione DigicultOctober 5, 2012

The surrealistic imagery of Jheronimus Bosch (approx. 1450 – 1516) has already been inspiring artists and designers for nearly five centuries. The Jheronimus Bosch 500 Foundation strives to promote the work of the Dutch master to a wide audience, in a contemporary and lasting fashion... READ MORE...

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Craft Hacking In The Loom. Christy Matson And Melissa Barron

Mathias JanssonOctober 3, 2011

Christy Matson and Melissa Barron are two artists that combines digital videogames with weaving. In there art they explores the borders between virtual images and real images, but also the close relationship between the early computer history and the tradition of handicraft.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 68, October 2011

Mauro Ceolin: Ethnography Of The Imaginary

Claudio MussoSeptember 1, 2011

Mauro Ceolin, present in September and October to Triennale Bovisa in Milan with his exhibition Contemporary Naturalism, VIVENDI - da Lassie ai Pokemon, made of hybridization his trademark. In fact, at the base of his work lies an analytic attitude, reason to study and ultimate goal at the same time. His methods of research lie on the border between a large body of disciplines ranging from sociology to biology, anthropology to chemistry, from science of materials to neuroscience. Before such a wide arsenal of options it would be practically impossible to give some answers to the first question, but the artist's extraordinary coherence of work comes to our aid.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 67, September 2011

Shoot Me From Linz To Venice. “videoludica” And The Italian Game Art

Mathias JanssonMay 30, 2011

Game Art, i.e. contemporary art inspired by videogames. It could be an artistic modification of an existing commercial videogame or a completely new artistic game (an Artgame), but it can also be a more traditional art forms like painting, photography, video or performance. Common for Game Art is that the aesthetic, the technique and culture from the videogame world has been essential when the art work was created or exhibited to the public.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 65, June 2011