MATTEO BITTANTI

EVENT: BENJAMIN FREEDMAN (APRIL 21 - MAY 4 2023, ONLINE)

Benjamin Freedman Jake digital video, one channel, color, sound, 6’ 46”, 2023, Canada Jake is an experimental film that explores simulated environments and the inherent artificiality and fallibility of memory. Composed of footage captured in Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, a videogame set in a post-apocalyptic small town, the film... Read more →

NEWS: VRAL SEASON FOUR

VRAL is set to unveil its highly anticipated fourth season of exhibitions this coming Friday, promising an immersive experience of avant-garde, cutting-edge, and unclassifiable game-based video art from both established artists and emerging talents. In the midst of a global pandemic, VRAL emerged as a cutting-edge, carefully curated game video... Read more →

ARTWORK: LRV2066 FORWARDFACING-B (COLL.EO)

LRV2066 FORWARDFACING-B Ongoing digital performance on Twitter, videos, AI-generated poems digital image 1059 pixel x 761 pixel (screenshot), courtesy of SFMTA and WIRED text generated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4, March 23 2023 version audio generated by ElevenLabs’s Speech Synthesizer thesis tool, 2023 created by COLL.EO, 2023 On September 30, 2022,... Read more →

EVENT: JAKE COURI (FEBRUARY 10 - 23 2023, ONLINE)

A PRECARIOUS NIGHT AT PLUMB POINT Digital video (2160 × 3840), sound, color, 24’ 04”, 2023, United States Created by Jake Couri Sound Design: Kris Force Environment Artist: Francou Bosch Voice Artist: Matthew Curtis Introduced by Matteo Bittanti February 10 - 23 2023 vral.org A Precarious Night at Plumb Point finds our... Read more →

MEDIA COVERAGE: RESET. POLITICA & VIDEOGIOCHI SU CARMILLA ONLINE (3)

Don't miss Gioacchino Toni's superb review of Jack Denham and Matthew Spokes's essay Il diritto alla città virtuale: la regressione rurale nei videogiochi open world included in Reset. Politica e videogiochi. LINK: Il diritto alla città dentro e fuori gli schermi Also on Carmilla Online: Soraya Murray; book review (In... Read more →