Foundations of digital games 2013. Call for submissions
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,...
View ArticleDifferent Games Conference. Call for Proposal. Deadline 1/2/2013
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....
View ArticleGame Play Performance. Deadline 01/03/13
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 The post Game...
View ArticleIndie videogames are going big, some voices from Italy
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...
View ArticleHarun Farocki: Playing the Game
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. The post Harun Farocki: Playing the...
View ArticleCory Arcangel: Power Points
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...
View ArticlePlaying the Game 2013: Conversations between Indie Games, Arts and Cultures
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...
View ArticleVideogames at MOMA. New Fruition Models in Contemporary Art
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...
View ArticleMedia Arts & Game. Call for assistant professor
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,...
View ArticleThe Blank Arcade. Call for entries
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...
View Article(Italiano) Playing the game. Videogiochi indipendenti in dialogo con arti e...
(Italiano) 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...
View ArticleThe Black Horse. Deadline: 30th June 2015
5th Ars Independent Festival (22-27 of September, 2015, Katowice, Poland). We await entries to the Black Horse, the Black Horse of Animation and the Black Horse of Video Games competitions. The post...
View Article19th Japan Media Arts Festival | Call for Entries
The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts (Media Geijutsu) that honors outstanding works from a diverse range of media - from animation and comics to media art and games....
View ArticleImmersive storytelling between gaming and narrative: interview with Andy...
Storytelling is getting more immersive and participative, in the sense that audience is engaged in a more interactive way and the environment is evolving into a more complex transmedia scenario....
View ArticleBlending and disrupting the realities: interview with Joseph DeLappe
Although changing over time, thanks to increasingly efficient technology, the digital world and the real world have come together to contextually coexist, often creating problems. Looking at the many...
View ArticleBreaking news
Through very different languages Alterazioni Video, Filippo Minelli and Carlo Zanni burst in real and / or constructed scenarios imagining a turning point, the arrival of an external event, something...
View ArticleThe Insane Growth of Social Gaming
Social Gaming is one of the most popular phenomena in recent history. A lot of people play social games on their mobile devices. Further growth is expected The post The Insane Growth of Social Gaming...
View ArticleJon Rafman: I have ten thousand compound eyes and each is named suffering
Jon Rafman is on show until August at the Stedelijk Museum. The Canadian artist that makes the digital and the online gaming the heart of his creative philosophy. Combining real and virtual scenarios...
View ArticleMath is Art: Understanding the Basic Concept of Probability
They say there’s art in everything – which in all likelihood makes everyone artists. Additionally, you could argue – even contradict – this statement by pointing out that having the potential and...
View ArticleThe Games Europe Plays. Body-Tech
The exhibition The Games Europe Plays-BODY-TECH presents the works of interactive artists and game makers from the UK and continental Europe, trying to imagine how we will inhabit and take care of our...
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