VIDEO: MARCO DE MUTIIS: VIDEO GAMES & PHOTOGRAPHY: A BRIEF HISTORY

July 21, 2016

FULL VIDEO OF MARCO DE MUTIIS LECTURE ON MAY 27 2016 NOW AVAILABLE

DESCRIPTION: Photo and camera modes have started to appear in more and more video games, allowing players to capture an instant of the game world. Often mimicking some aspect of the camera interface and the act of photographing, games have been attempting to simulate photography, sometimes incorporating it into the mechanics of gameplay. So quite often we find ourselves in front of a screen, looking through a virtual viewfinder, interacting with simulated aperture settings and controlling the amount of depth of field of our in-game image. Playing games we also encounter fictional clients and digital photography teachers rating our safari pictures, telling us how to frame an image, to get closer, or giving us a disappointing C+ because our subject is not facing the camera. In short: there seem to be all sorts of strange simulations, remediations, and mutations of photography appearing within games, questioning what it means to photograph and to play and how the two are interconnected. “VIDEO GAMES AND PHOTOGRAPHY: A BRIEF HISTORY” is an attempt to illustrate the complex relationship and diverse interplay between photography and video games.

THE SPEAKER Marco De Mutiis is an artist and curator with a focus on language, perception and communication. His works deal with the human necessity of expression through the act of coding and decoding system of signs, and the urgency to translate thoughts and feelings into symbols. Exploring that balancing act between an irrational and subconscious need to communicate and the impossibility of pure unmediated expression, he often attempts to unravel the polarisation between signal and noise, sign and meaning. His works have been shown in festivals and museums internationally. As a curator his research lies in the exploration of new forms of photographic practices beyond the camera, mutations and remediations of photography, and new approaches to the way images are created and distributed. Currently, Marco works as digital curator for Fotomuseum Winterthur and research associate at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland). De Mutiis lives in Zurich, Switzerland.

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VIDEO: VICTOR MORALES' NEW FIGURATIVE SERIES

July 20, 2016

A new series of videos from Venezuelan-born, NY-based artist Victor Morales are uncanny, mesmerizing, and morbidly fascinating.

Here's the incredible FigureFiguring, a dance scene sui generis which degenerates in a plastic-elastic copulation that defies the laws of physics.

Below is Figures and Branches, starring an avatar of Donald Trump.

It all started with FigurativeMoves, featuring a melting, shapeshifting Trump.

Morales' work consists of "an exploration of video game engines as simulation environments, where death and physics are transformed into dramatic and comedic real time performance".

Morales' work Maria (2016) is currently on display in the GLITCH level of GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY.

Here's a recent interview with the artist.

Interviste ad Andrea Cancellato, Direttore Generale de La Triennale di Milano, e Matteo Bittanti, co-curatore della mostra di video arte ispirata al mondo dei videogiochi GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY, allestita in IULM Open Space, lo spazio espositivo dell'Università IULM di Milano, per la XXI Esposizione Internazionale della Triennale, 21st Century.

MEDIA COVERAGE: CATALOGUE PRESENTATION (JUNE 30, 2016)

July 14, 2016

VIDEO: PIETRO RIGHI RIVA, QUALCOSA DA DIRE (VIDEO)

July 13, 2016

ORA DISPONIBILE LA versione integrale della presentazione di Pietro Righi Riva, "Qualcosa da dire" che si è tenuta alla IULM di Milano il 13 maggio 2016.

In questa pungente e stimolante presentazione, Pietro Righi Riva illustra una serie di tecniche tutt'altro che convenzionali per la creazione di video game. Secondo Riva, oggi i videogiochi "non funzionano". Cosa possono fare i creatori per reinventare il medium? Quali sono le ispirazioni possibili per cambiare le regole del (video)gioco?

LO SPEAKER

Pietro Righi Riva, classe 1985, dirige lo studio di produzione di videogiochi Santa Ragione. dal 2010 con il quale ha sviluppato giochi sperimentali vincitori di premi internazionali, tra cui il gioco di corse in soggettiva FOTONICA (2011), il gioco di esplorazione astratto MirrorMoon EP (2013) e il gioco di guida narrativo Wheels of Aurelia (2015). Righi Riva ha conseguito un dottorato in Interaction Design al Politecnico di Milano e ha collaborato con l'Istituto dei Ciechi di Milano per la realizzazione di un catalogo di strumenti per il game design accessibile. Dal 2016, coordina l'innovativo Master Universitario GAME/PLAY. Design, Direction & Production alla IULM. Righi Riva vive e lavora a Milano.

Lawrence Lek, Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition) Real-time simulation & HD video loop.

Open Source London -- Sat 28 + Sun 29 May 2016, 2-10pm Gillett Square, Dalston, N16 -- With the UK cast out of the EU, Dalston has degenerated into a post-apocalyptic utopia. Come and explore this drowned world of the near future: filled with forgotten nightclubs, neon-lit music venues, Election booths, Turkish snooker clubs and luxury penthouses. Building upon Lek’s original commission for Open Source 2015, this site-specific simulation brings together multiple histories of the area into a single zone. As players roam around, a voiceover extracted from Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour speaks to them about the nature of memory. It is a gradual, but relentless, sense of forgetting that comes with any form of urban transformation.

ART: LAWRENCE LEK'S "EUROPA MON AMOUR (2016 BREXIT EDITION)

June 24, 2016

A new - very timely - video from Lawrence Lek whose work Unreal Estate (The Academy of Arts if Yours) is currently on display in the RECORD level of GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY.

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