Street artist and animator Diego Bergia aka Lepos combines his love for ’90s arcade gaming and graffiti with the latest “arcade clip” set in San Francisco, complete with “some rooftop roller-hit action at historic Fort Mason!” Who wouldn’t want to play that? Read more »
Casey Weldon’s Atari “Combat” inspired Tiananmen Squared and a Super Smooth Mario from Dabs Myla are just some of the painterly, sculpture-ly, embroidery-ly, arty ditties at Gallery 1988′s latest themed group exhibit. They’ve got lots, because vintage gaming is bottomless barrel of fan art fodder and shall always be. “Old School Video Game Show,” Group Show, Sep 16 – Oct 8, Gallery 1988: Venice, Los Angeles
Here’s a excellent little online 8-bit “video game” so everyone can experience the intricacies and frustrations of Marina Abramović’s The Artist Is Present MoMA performance. Just make sure to click in during museum hours, NYC time, or you won’t get in. Ha! Ha! Read more »
Wrist goiters, bleeding thumbs, twisted shoulders, oh my! Project Game Arthritis is a pseudo-scientific, systematic study of gaming afflictions, from Xbox Hypertrophy to 3D Optical Disorder. These dramatizations are inspired by ’80s and ’90s anti-new-tech propaganda and modern day media hush-hush about possible dangers, diseases and deformations caused by too much virtual zombie killing. “What if” these were real? Read more »
This Frogger poster reminds you to “Keep Your Tadpoles Safe! Teach Them to Always… Look Both Ways!” Video games: fine fodder for fine art and sound advice. See Gallery 1988′s other minimalist, faux-vintage and pixel-arty posters here. “Multiplayer,” Group Show, Jan 15 – Feb 4, Gallery 1988: Venice, Santa Monica
Watch itsy 16-bitsy Daniel Plainview dodge chucked Bibles, dynamite some shafts and do bowling ball damage on preacher Eli in this in-game footage of Super There Will Be Blood for SNES. Yes. Read more »
One of the videos short-listed for exhibition at the Guggenheim in YouTube exhibit is a juxtaposition of Call of Duty gameplay and the U.S. Army’s “collateral murder” snuff video from WikiLeaks. Read more »
Released way back in 1985, people still continue to find inventive new ways to keep video game classic Super Mario Bros. relevant like in this clip. Watch as everyone’s favorite 8-bit wop traverses through the Mushroom Kingdom while eyeing the street and without dying once. |Like Cool|
It’s not [only] that they’re nostalgic for the blocky video gaming of yesteryear. Artist working in the pixel medium today give vintage-styled gaming the Renaissance it never had. Read more »
Famed video artist Bill Viola teamed up with USC Game Innovation Lab for an unusual collaboration – video game: The Night Journey. The game re-creates “the experience of a journey toward enlightenment.” Attempts to speed through the game will blur the dreamy landscape, but “relinquishing control” to dream sequences will turn it color. To be ready this year, it looks like the best video game/art crossover yet. |ARTnews|
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