MATTEO BITTANTI

EVENT: KADIR KAYSERILIOĞLU (JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 3 2022, ONLINE)

WOLFPATH.EXE digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 4’ 04”, 2017, Turkey Created by Kadir Kayserilioğlu January 21 - February 3 2022 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org Updating a traditional origin myth through video game aesthetics, Wolfpath.exe is a meta-commentary on contemporary Turkey from the perspective of a young artist... Read more →

EVENT: HILLEVI CECILIA HÖGSTRÖM (JANUARY 7 - 20 2022, ONLINE)

A HAND IN THE GAME digital video, color, sound, 35’ 08”, 2017, Sweden Created by Hillevi Cecilia Högström January 7 - 20 2022 vral.org introduced by Matteo Bittanti A hand in the game is a video essay documenting the artist’s experience with SimPark (1996), a simulation published by Californian game... Read more →

EVENT: A CONVERSATION ABOUT "POLLUTED INFORMATION" WITH WHITNEY PHILLIPS AND RYAN M. MILNER (DECEMBER 21 2021, ONLINE)

Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Miner You Are Here A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape (MIT Press, 2021) How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically. Our media environment is in crisis.... Read more →

BOOK: GIOCARE A CAMMINARE

I am delighted to announce that the third volume in the ongoing series GAME VIDEO ART/STUDIES is now available from Concrete Press: Luca Miranda's Giocare a camminare, the first academic studies of the walking simulator (text in Italian). Giocare a camminare Autore: Luca Miranda Data di pubblicazione: 6 dicembre 2021... Read more →

EVENTO: TRANSMEDIALITÀ E CROSSMEDIALITÀ: NUOVE PROSPETTIVE (1-2 DICEMBRE, IULM, MILANO)

Transmedialità e crossmedialità: nuove prospettive Un convegno organizzato dal Dottorato in Visual e Media Studies dell'Università IULM 1 dicembre – 9:30-17:00 2 dicembre – 9:30-12:30 aula Seminari, edificio IULM 1 Via Carlo Bo 1 – 20143 Milano (MI) Per accedere al convegno, è necessario prenotarsi compilando questo form Quali traiettorie... Read more →