VIDEO: ROC HERMS, ART OF DUTY (2014)

Roc Herms, Art of Duty, digital video, color, sound, 2014, 2' 10"

This machinima, which showcases in a playful, tongue-in-cheek mode, several kinds of artworks depicted in the violent first-person shooter Call of Duty Black Ops II, exemplifies Roc Herms' approach to machinima: both irreverent and witty. The sound of intense shooting is juxtaposed to images of paintings, sculptures, posters, photographs, and canvases adorning the various locales of the game. This video forms an ideal triptych with Claire Evans's Modern Warfare and Michiel Van Der Zanden's Pwned Paintings series. 

Below, Herms documents his creative process:

EVENT: ROC HERMS (MAY 6, 2016)

Join us for a fascinating presentation by Spanish artist Roc Herms, whose photographic practice oscillates between different layers of reality, shades of meanings, and fragments of simulations. 

PRESENTATION: ROC HERMS

TITLE: POSTCARDS FROM HOME

DATE & TIME: FRIDAY MAY 6, 2016, 6 - 7.30 PM

LOCATION: ROOM 112 (IULM 1)

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH AND SPANISH

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

PLEASE RSVP (WRITE "ROC HERMS" IN THE SUBJECT LINE - LIMITED SEATING)

THE SPEAKER

Roc Herms (Spain, 1978) has been taking photographs since 2002. Herms explores the increasing digitalization of the human race and the ongoing relationship between the self and its mediated expressions. In 2008, he won the Editor's Award for Excellence given by PHOTO ICON Magazine. Herms’ series Are You Sure You Want To Log Out? was exhibited at the 2014 Noorderlicht Photography Festival: An Ocean of Possibilities. Herms is the author of several books, including Postcards from Home and <Yo> <Yo> <Yo> <Yo> (2007-2015). His most recent work in on display at fotomuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland, as part of the ongoing series SITUATIONS_PLAY.

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SCREENING SHOTS

For the entire month of May, GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY WILL BECOME a film-festival-WITHIN-AN-ART-SHOW CELEBRATING EXPERIMENTAL MACHINIMA.

The program features screenings of seminal works by Philip Solomon, Harun Farocki, and other international artists.

Every Wednesday at 6 PM, in the Contemporary Exhibition Hall.

Each screening is introduced by a IULM professor.

RSVP recommended.

FULL DETAILS HERE

MEDIA COVERAGE: BE.BEAP ON GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY

MICHELE ROTA, BE.BEAP; MAY 3, 2016. Excerpt:

"[Il machinima è] una tecnica che unisce cinema e software art in grado di dimostrare come il videogioco, uno tra i materiali visivi più imperanti della nostra generazione, non sia un prodotto standardizzato, bensì una piattaforma aperta allo stravolgimento e al remixaggio in grado di generare nuove forme di arte contemporanea." (Michele Rota)

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PRESENTATION: OSCAR NODAL, MACHINIMA AND NARRATIVE (MAY 5, 2016)

PRESENTATION: OSCAR NODAL

TITLE: GLITCH AS A NARRATIVE AGENT IN MACHINIMA

DATE & TIME: THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2016, 6 - 7.30 PM

LOCATION: ROOM 112 (IULM 1)

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

PLEASE RSVP (WRITE "OSCAR NODAL" IN THE SUBJECT LINE - LIMITED SEATING)

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Join us for a in-depth presentation on glitch aesthetics in machinima production by Mexican artist Oscar Nodal, whose work Sleepy Existence (2014) is currently on display in the RECORD section of GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY.

THE SPEAKER

Born in Juarez, Mexico in 1986, Oscar Nodal is a visual artist who engages with new media technology, synthetic imagery, and simulated environments. As critic Emmanuel Villareal writes, “Nodal's work by moments examines video purely as an electronic technology of signal processing and transmission that shares these properties with other electronic media, notably television. But most of all, portrays video as a medium in its own right by articulating specific media language in a step-by-step construction of a videographic-aesthetic vocabulary, at times, successfully establishing an emergent semiotic system by which video becomes a medium that can be truly distinguished from alternative media.”

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