UPCOMING
March 2021: MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL
January 11, 2021: M.A. in Game Design, 4th Edition, IULM, Milan, Italy
October 2, 2020: VRAL #10
ONGOING
September 18 - October 1 2020: VRAL #9: Brent Watanabe
November 11, 2019 - October 09, 2020: M.A. in Game Design, 3rd Edition, IULM, Milan, Italy
RECENT
September 4 - 17 2020: VRAL #8: David Blandy [ART]
September 12 2020: Machinima Vernacolare is now available [BOOK]
August 21 - September 3, 2020: VRAL #7: Jón Bjarki Magnússon
July 17 - July 30, 2020: VRAL #6: Brenton Alexander Smith [ART]
July 3 - July 16 2020: VRAL #5: Thomas Hawranke [ART]
July 1, 2020: ART JOURNAL [ART]
June 19 - July 2, 2020: VRAL #4: PETRA SZÉMAN [ART]
June 5 - June 18, 2020: VRAL #3: JORDY VEENSTRA [ART]
June 2, 2020: REASONABLE_3 [ART]
May 25 - May 30, 2020: MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL 2020, online [ART]
May 8 - May 22, 2020: VRAL #2: ALEKSANDAR RADAN [ART]
April 25 - May 7, 2020: VRAL #1: VICTOR MORALES [ART]
April 17, 2020: VRAL is online [ART]
April 3-5, 2020: NOW PLAY THIS. A Festival of an Experimental Game Design, London, UK
SELECTED TALKS, LECTURES, AND PRESENTATIONS
2019
Data Science & Social Research Conference 2019, Università Bicocca and IULM, Milan, Italy
2018
"A New American Dream: un post-mortem", Post-Fotografia, IULM, Milano
2017
"Siete in un paese meraviglioso. La guida simulata nel Belpaese", DiGRA ITALIA: Made in Italy, Vigamus, Rome. DIGRA 2017Bittanti
"Camera Ludica: Reflections on Artistic In-Game Photography" with Cindy Poremba, Marco de Mutiis, and Sebastian Möring, IULM, Milan, Italy. CameraLudicaDiGRAITALIA2017
Game Designers on Stage. Politecnico, Milan, Italy.
2016
November 23, 2016: "Rethinking Transmedia Storytelling. Dylan Dog and the video games from hell", Conference, IULM, Milan, Italy
November 18, 2016: "Il manuale scolastico alla prova di Internet", BookCity 2016, IULM, Milan, Italy,
September 2016: "Crash: Gaming Aesthetics and Contemporary Art", Mantua, Italy with Isabelle Arvers & Valentina Tanni.
June 2016: GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY. Book Presentation, IULM, Milan, Italy, with Andrea Cancellato & Mario Negri.
June 2016: GAME/PLAY @ GAME HAPPENS, Genoa, Italy with Pietro Righi Riva.
April - June 2016: GAME VIDEO ART/A SURVEY collateral events, IULM, Milan, Italy.
April 2016: Situations_PLAY, fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, with Roc Herms and Marco De Mutiis.
January, 2016: Presentation XXI Triennale, La Triennale Museum, Milan, Italy.
2015
December 2015: "Modi di vedere: Shining", IULM Milano
October 2015: Visioni Ludologiche. Dodici anni di critica videoludica, with Gianni Canova and Marzio Zanantoni. Caffé Letterario @IULM University, Milan, Italy, 3:30 pm
August 2015: The Gallery At Play: On the Politics of Exhibiting Game Art with Martin Zeilinger, Skot Deeming, Eddo Stern, Lynn Hughes, and Isabelle Arvers, ISEA 2015, Vancouver, Canada.
May 28, 2015: "Phenomenology of Ludic Driving", Technology, Multimedia and Storytelling: An Interdisciplinary Conference, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
April 10, 2015: Teaching Games in Co-Op Mode: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Workshop, UCLA GameLab, Los Angeles, California.
January 24 - 24, 2015: "Critica della Ragione Tecnologica", Triennale, Milano.
2014
November 15, 2014: Metafore Urbane, Bookcity 2014, Triennale Design Museum, Milan.
June 16, 2014: "Game Design, Game Art, Critical Players", Gaming Workshop, University of Siena.
2013
“AFTER PROCESS: An Artist’ Talk”, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California, September 12, 2013.
2012
"Ludologica: Past, Present, and Future", Italian Video Game Conference 2012, Rome, Italy. October 20, 2012.
"Spaces of Gaming", INDIE NOW. REBOOT!, IULM, Milano, Italy. June 8, 2012.
"Psychogeographic Gaming", OPEN Videogame: GAME BANG! GAMER TALK, Triennale, Museum of Design, Milan, Italy. April 29, 2012.
"Re-Reading", BiblioNext. The Future of Reading 2012, Hotel Aldrovandi, Rome, Italy. April 19, 2012.
"Homines Ludentes. A Flusserian Take on Game Art", Loading... Videogioco: arte, media, Conference, Università Cattolica, Milano, Italy. March 5, 2012.
2011
“SERIO VIDEOLUDERE: Gaming the Everyday”, IULM Film Happening, IULM University, Milan, Italy. June 23-24, 2011.
"Performing Fashion. Style, Fashion and Brands as Avatars in Digital Gaming", Far Game Festival, University of Bologna, May 18, 2011.
24/7 DIY Video Summit, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California. April 16, 2011. (Event co-organizer)
“Games and Simulated Histories”, The Art of Assassin’s Creed exhibition and conference, Museum of Natural History, Genoa, Italy. January 21, 2011.
2010
“The Politics of Game Art”, Artists Talks Series, University of Nevada, at Reno. November 4, 2010.
2009
“Don’t ask what game design can do for higher education. Ask what higher education can (and must) do for game design”, Italian Game Developers Conference, IULM University, Milan, Italy.
“Ludic Cartography”, Visualizing the Dynamics of Knowledge: A Media-X Visualization Vanguard Collaboratory, Wallenberg Hall, Stanford University, August 12, 2009.
“Game/Art/Play/Criticism”, The Art of Games, Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, Venice, Italy. July 16, 2009.
Metaverse U, Stanford University, May 29-30, 2009 (organizing committee).
“Art is a Game”, The Art of Games, Aosta, Italy, May 22, 2009.
E-Sports and Cyber Athleticism: A How They Got Game Workshop, Stanford University, May 8, 2009. (organizing committee).
“Gaming Cultures between Creativity and Socialization”, Japanese Pop Culture Lecture Series, Università Cà Foscari di Venezia, May 6, 2009.
“The Clash Between Game Art and Copyright”, Play-Machinima-Law Conference, Stanford University, April 24-25, 2009.
“Game Spaces/Game Art”, Inventio 09 Symposium, Stanford University, April 20-21, 2009.
“Two or Three Things I Know About Avatars”, AVATARS Conference, Third Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, Stanford University, April 10-11, 2009.
“Two or Three Things I Know About Videogames”, San Francisco Art Institute, Guest Speaker in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “History of the Cyborg” course, April 1, 2009.
“LUDIC WAR”, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy, January 22, 2009.
EVENT ARCHIVE
Below: a selection of past appearances, talks, lectures, and presentations:
SELECTED SHOWS (AS AN ARTIST)
2020
Now Play This: A Festival of Experimental Game Design, London, United Kingdom, April 3-5, 2020.
2019
SUPERNOVA, Denver, Colorado, September 19-21 2019.
FUNCTION, Mallorca, Spain, May 24-25 2019.
Milan Machinima Festival 2019, Milan, Italy, March 18 2019.
In a Gamescape. Landscape, Reality, Storytelling and Identity in Video Games, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A, With Colleen Flaherty. Tokyo, Japan, December 15 2018 - March 10 2019.
2018
In a Gamescape Landscape, Reality, Storytelling and Identity in Video Games, Tokyo, Japan, December 2018 - March 2019
NextNewGames, Institute of Contemporary Art, San José, California, June 2018.
Sheffield Film/Doc Festival, Sheffield, UK, June 2018.
2017
RE/PLAY. Reenactment Practices in Video Games, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, November 14, 2017.
Simulacrum, De Altonale Art Festival, Greskewitz-Kleinitz, Hamburg, Germany. With Colleen Flaherty. June 17 - July 4 2017.
Simulacrum, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groeningen, The Netherlands. With Colleen Flaherty. April 8, - June 25, 2017.
ART GAMES DEMOS. With Colleen Flaherty. Marseille, France. March 1 - 31, 2017.
Co-Existence Exhibition, Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky, USA. With Colleen Flaherty. March 22 - 25, 2017
2016
TRAVELOGUE, Mantua, Italy, with Colleen Flaherty. September 7-11, 2016.
VECTOR 2016, Toronto, Canada, with Colleen Flaherty. July 14- 16, 2016.
Cool War. Game Art Across The Straits, Wifredo Lam Centro De Arte Contemporaneo, Havana, Cuba, with Colleen Flaherty, June 3 - 27, 2016.
How to Build a Universe Which Does Not Fall Apart Two Days Later. With Colleen Flaherty, La Maison Populaire, Paris, France. January 12 - March 26, 2016.
2015
International Festival of New Media Art and Video Transitio_MX, with Colleen Flaherty, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, September 25 - October 11, 2015.
Mirage, Casa De Cultura De Guanabacoa, Cuba, Collateral exhibition to the 12th Havana Biennial, Cuba, Havana, May 26 – June 22, 2015.
The Dissidents, the Displaced and the Outliers I, Random Parts Gallery, Oakland, California, May 2 - June 5, 2015.
The Dissidents, the Displaced and the Outliers (II, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, California, May 16 - June 19, 2015.
2014
October 10 - November 11, 2014: Private! Come in!, Spare Change Artist Space, San Francisco
August 28 - September 25 2014: 'If Elvis was the King, who was James Brown? Antagonizing The Social Through Humor and Irony', Cesar Chavez Gallery, SFSU
June 09 - July 10, 2014. SAMO© IS DEAD. PRESS PLAY, Widget Art Gallery, online show curated by Chiara Passa
2013
Games Reflexions, Carreau, Paris, France. October 18 - November 12, 2013
Working Title, CCA Faculty Exhibition 2013, San Francisco, California. September 4 - 26, 2013.
The Games of Art, The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia. July 23 - August 3, 2013.
Vector. Game + Art Convergence. Toronto, Canada. February 21-24, 2013.
2012
GAME, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. October 26, 2012 - January 18, 2013.
Point of No Return, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California. December 7 - 20, 2012.
PLAYING THE GAME, Milan, Italy. October 26-27, 2012.
2011
ATOPIC Machinima Film Festival, Paris, curated by Margherita Balzerani.
DRODESERA 2011 Video Art Festival, Centrale Fies, Trento, Italy. July 22 - 30, 2011
Game Arthritis, Matteo Bittanti & IOCOSE, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Milano. September 24 - November 11, 2011.
Speed Limits, Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida. Curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. September 17, 2010 - February 20, 2011
2010
HERE IN MY CAR - Beyond Autopia and Autogeddon, ArtCyte, Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada. January 15 - February 6, 2010.
2009
IO NON SONO MARINETTI (I am not Marinetti), with Lynn Hershman Leeson, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California. January 15-18, 2009.
Speed Limits. Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, Canada. May 19 - October 12, 2009.
SELECTED EVENTS (AS A CURATOR)
2019
MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL, IULM, Milan, March 15, 2018.
GAME TALKS, IULM, Milan, various dates (9 events)
2018
MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL, IULM, Milan, March 16, 2018.
GAME TALKS, IULM, Milan, various dates (6 events)
2017
RE/PLAY. Reenactment Practices in Video Games, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, November 14, 2017.
HYPE, Marco Mendeni solo show, AmyD, Milan, Italy, May 29 - June 17, 2017.
2016
TRAVELOGUE, Mantua, Italy, September 7 - 11, 2016.
ARTCADE. THE PLAYFUL CITY with Italo Rota, Milan, Italy, June 27 - July 3, 2016.
NEW DIRECTIONS, IULM University, Milan, May 25, 2016.
GAME/VIDEO ART. A Survey, with Vincenzo Trione, IULM University, Milan, April 4 - July 31, 2016.
2015
Critique of Technological Reason. With Gianni Canova, Triennale Museum, Milan, Italy, January 23-24 2015.
2014
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY: Marco Mendeni & Marc Vincent Kalinka, THECA Gallery, Off Fair Brussels, Belgium. April 24 - 28, 2014.
2013
DECEPTIVE PERCEPTIONS - DI/VISIONI PERSISTENTI, Marco Mendeni solo show @ Galleria Civica Campione d’Italia (Ita | Canton Ticino), Camera di Commercio dell’Uruguay (Saronno, Mi), .Box - Spazio internazionale per la video arte (Milano) in collaboration with Andrea Carlo Alpini, Alessandra Arno e Stefano Roberto Mazzatorta. September 24 - December 15, 2013.
2012
Teh Italians Do It Better, Exhibition at the 52nd Edition of the Venice Biennial of Art, with Domenico Quaranta. Venice, Italy.
2008- 2010
The Tech Silicon Valley Innovation Gallery, Curator, Tech Museum, San José, California.
2008
Avatar, Società e Cultura nei Nuovi Mondi Virtuali, Scientific Board, Museo Tridentino di Scienza Naturali. Trento, Italy.
Metaverse U Conference, Organizing committee, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
2006
GameScapes. Video Game Landscapes and Simulated Cities, with Rosanna Pavoni & Domenico Quaranta. Monza, Italy.
The Technoludic Art of Mauro Ceolin, exhibition, with Pierluigi Casolari, IULM University, Milan, Italy.
SELECTED INTERVIEWS
October 13 2019: Swiss Radio (in Italian)
October 10 2019: DDAY (in Italian)
March 1, 2019: VICE (in Italian)
November 14, 2018: LUDICA (in Italian)
May 18, 2017: Outcast (in Italian)
July 11, 2016: RadioPopolare (in Italian)
June 21, 2016: Radio Roma 3 (in Italian)
April 28, 2016: DUELS (in Italian)
April 4, 2016: RADIO IULM (in Italian)
March 14, 2016: MAGZINE (in Italian)
March 1, 2016: PLAYERS (in Italian)
January 20, 2016: Random Parts vs. Matteo Bittanti (in English)
March 22, 2015: BBC World Service, "Homeless in SimCity" (in English)
January 19, 2015: Emilio Cozzi, "Per una critica della Ragion Tecnologica", ZERO (in Italian).
December 3-10, 2014: Corrado Peperoni, "Media, Crossmedia, Transmedia", XMP. (part one, part two) (in Italian).
July 2014: Roberto Semprebene, "Matteo Bittanti. Nell'era dell'attenzione parziale", 8 1/2. (in Italian).
June 2, 2014: KPFA Radio: The Pacific Evening News, audio (below), Tom Hamilton20140602-Mon1800
May, 30, 2014: Joyce Cutler, Daily Labor Report, Bloomberg BNA, Available here: Daily Labor Report - SFAI Mills
December 2013: A conversation with Carlo Ricafort about cars, included in COLL.EO, CARJACKED, CONCRETE PRESS, 2013. [excerpt]
July 2013: ABOUT CARS. A conversation with Juan Carlos Quintana, included in Matteo Bittanti, SMALLER THAN LIFE, CONCRETE PRESS, 2013.
January 12, 14, 17, 2011: A conversation with Henry Jenkins about Game Art => part one, part two, part three.
October 26, 2011: Luca Gallesi, "Gioie e dolori del mercato videoludico italiano", L'Avvenire (in Italian).
September 2011, Mimmo Gianneri, Duellanti, "Tecnologia Cosciente" di Settembre 2011. Pp. 77-78. Download Intervista Matteo Bittanti. (in Italian).
June 6, 2010, Letizia Tortello, "Il peggio di internet è sempre meglio della televisione". Download LaStampa 06102010.
December 15, 2010: Lina Vezzani-Katano's Interview (CCA), San Francisco, California.
November 26, 2008, Bernardo Parrella, Apogeo Online.(in Italian).
June 17, 2008: Oliver Broggini, "Chi ha paura di Grand Theft Auto IV?", Corriere del Ticino,
June 5, 2008: Federico Fasce, "Il videogioco si apre alle masse", Il Manifesto.
May 28, 2008: Grazia Casagrande, "I videogiochi e la loro filosofia", Wuz.
May 5, 2007: Wuz (Italian)
April 16, 2007: Il Corriere del Ticino (in Italian).
March 30, 2007: Ivan Fulco, La Stampa (with Henry Lowood). (in Italian).
March 12, 2007: Chaplin, Heather, "Is that Just Some game? No, it's a cultural artifact", New York Times,
March 01, 2007: Marco Mancuso, Digicult with Domenico Quaranta (in Italian).