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Dust off those MFAs. 19th century masters come to life in "artist simulation" game.
A history thesis that pieces together Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet, Avant-Garde is great because it steals almost everything.
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Profile of Cory Arcangel reveals an artist who understands games as an instrument of failure
The New Yorker lifted the paywall on its marvellous profile of digital artist Cory Arcangel. You may know him best from his 2008 piece Super Mario Clouds (above) where he erased everything in Miyamoto’s classic except the — go on, guess — clouds. Below, Arcangel explains why frustration is at the ce
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Twofivesix speaker Paola Antonelli on Colbert Report tonight to talk MoMA games exhibition
We love MoMA. We’ve thrown an arcade with them and worked with them on the most recent acquisition of 14 games for the permanent collection of architecture and design. Tonight, senior curator and future Twofivesix speaker Paola Antonelli will grace the stage of the Colbert Report to talk about MoMA’
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A quick walk down memory lane shows how far the look of shooters have come.
The shooter is now legal drinking age, and from the early years to the awkward teens and on to today, it has come a long way. To prove it, a YouTuber has posted this montage, The Graphic Evolution of First Person Shooters: 1992-2012. Whoa! I had totally forgotten how bad Unreal Tournament looks. It’
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This pen that lets you draw in 3D easily one-ups PS4’s sculpting demo
In all the hoopla that surrounded Sony’s PlayStation 4 conference, the creators of Little Big Planet showed off a newfangled tech demo that lets players sculpt statues, which vaguely look like the Venus of Willendorf. Judging from what was shown, you take a Move motion-controller and dutifully sketc
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Limits & Demonstrations is the adventure game inspired by Nam June Paik and a mini MFA in art
If the rest of Kentucky Route Zero turns out to be anything like the first chapter, the game will go down as a dark, strange, slick, mature, artistic, and mysterious venture unlike any other. My theory is that’s because while most adventure game designers pull from older adventure game designers for
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Etrian Odyssey 4’s new art direction is impossibly banal
A few years ago, when retro games were making a comeback, and new games were frequently “nostalgic” of games from the ‘80s and ‘90s, I admit I thought it was pretty great. Games looked like something I played as a kid on my huge analog tube television while sitting on shag carpet. We got a new class
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Spacewar!, one of the world’s first digital games, is a primer on creative design
How the one of the world’s first computer games is a celebration of the future of game design.
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Exhibition of 80s art ignores games for their lack of desire
It took a long time, but videogames are finally being placed in museums as artistic objects to appreciate. The Smithsonian exhibit, “The Art of Video Games” ran from last March until September, giving fans and laymen alike a chance to view and play pivotal games from the nascent industry’s first fou
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A thesis show about marriage, race, and a PlayStation 3
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Kaho Abe's clapping game, wired to an Arduino