MATTEO BITTANTI

UPDATE: RECENT FEATURES ON PATREON (JUNE 2025 PART TWO)

Our Patreon for VRAL exists for people like you - artists, critics, scholars, and curious viewers - who care about avant-garde machinima and game-based video art. It’s a dedicated space where we gather and share what we’ve found, commissioned, or thought through: hundreds of curated posts, from close readings and essays to rare video works and experimental research. By subscribing,... Read more →

BOOK: VIDEOARTE LUDICA (2025)

Edited by/A cura di: Matteo Bittanti Translations by/Traduzioni di: Matteo Bittanti Publisher/Editore: Mimesis Edizioni Series/Collana: Eterotopie (n. 1055) Publication date/data di pubblicazione: June 30 2025/30 giugno 2025 Language/Lingua: Italiano Pages/Pagine: 602 ISBN: 9791222310312 (print); 9791222322513 (digital); DOI: 10.7413/1234-1234060 Price/Prezzo: €40 Cover jacket/Copertina: Marco Goran Romano Contributors/Autori: Thomas Hawranke, Riccardo Retez, Luca Miranda, José Blázquez, Paul Atkinson, Farzad Parsayi, Kara Güt,... Read more →

UPDATE: RECENT FEATURES ON PATREON (JUNE 2025 PART ONE)

Our Patreon for VRAL exists for people like you - artists, critics, scholars, and curious viewers - who care about avant-garde machinima and game-based video art. It’s a dedicated space where we gather and share what we’ve found, commissioned, or thought through: hundreds of curated posts, from close readings and essays to rare video works and experimental research. By subscribing,... Read more →

VIDEO: AVANTGARDE MACHINIMA VS. VERNACULAR MACHINIMA

In my essay for the book Videoarte Ludica (2025), I set out to rethink machinima not as a genre or a technique, but as a situated practice, emerging at the intersection of experimental aesthetics and participatory digital culture. I’m interested in exploring how machinima positions itself between poles often considered opposites: avant-garde art and mass (or vernacular) entertainment, the museum... Read more →

EVENT: OLEKSANDR HOISAN (MAY 23—JUNE 5 2025)

The Analogy of Space digital video, color, sound, 12’, 2022, Ukraine created by Oleksandr Hoisan May 23-June 5 2025 vral.org The Analogy of Space (2022) is a 12-minute machinima made with/in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar Games, 2004), utilizing the CamHunt plugin to enable articulate, fluid cinematography more reminiscent of steadicam or dolly work than in-game animations. Originating as... Read more →