THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW Digital video, color, sound, 7’ 01”, 2020 July 17 - July 30 2020 Introduced by Luca Miranda Things are different now (2020) is both a variation of The Soft Crash (2020 – ongoing) and a complementary, consequential conversation with Brenton Alexander Smith’s other works I Feel... Read more →
07/16/2020
07/03/2020
NEWS: ART JOURNAL (SUMMER 2020)
The Summer 2020 issue of Art Journal is now available in print and online and it features an outstanding selection of essays and articles on the relationship between art and video games, including contributions from guest editor Soraya Murray, Tracy Fullerton, Dorothy R. Santos, Eugénie Shinkle, Alenda Y. Chang, Hava... Read more →
EVENT: VRAL #5_THOMAS HAWRANKE (JULY 3 - JULY 16 2020, ONLINE)
SHADOWS:ULTRA Digital video, color, sound, 9’ 30”, 2019 July 3 - July 16 2020 Introduced by Luca Miranda Shadows:ULTRA shows overlapping animal shadows within the Dunia game engine, a software fork of CryEngine designed by Kirmaan Aboobaker while working at Crytek. Thomas Hawranke filmed the individual images from the monitor... Read more →
06/18/2020
EVENT: VRAL #4_PETRA SZÉMAN (JUNE 19 - JULY 2 2020, ONLINE)
MONOMYTH: GAIDEN/RETURN digital video, color, sound, 12’ 07”, 2020 Monomyth: gaiden / Return (2019) is the third installment in the ongoing Monomyth: gaiden series (2018-). Structured around the trope of the hero’s journey, it investigates how real life might be experienced as a mediated narrative, focusing on such notions as... Read more →
06/04/2020
EVENT: VRAL #3_JORDY VEENSTRA (JUNE 5 - JUNE 18 2020)
REGRESSION (TRILOGY) Created by Jordy Veenstra June 5 - 18 2020 vral.org Several cinematic productions of the 1920s and 1930s became known as city symphonies. Some, like The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) by Dziga Vertov or Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927) by Walter Ruttmann were explicitly... Read more →