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 →
07/03/2020
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 →
05/30/2020
NEWS: MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL 2020: IT'S WEIRD, EERIE, AND UNREAL. AND IT'S ALMOST OVER.
As the festival reaches its final day of online screenings, Matteo Bittanti, the artistic director of the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL, introduces the main program - The Weird, The Eerie, and the Unreal - via his avatar, MBF. Expect the unexpected: cinematic cities, unreal maps, apocalyptic fragments, great escapes, political dystopias,... Read more →
04/27/2020
NEWS: MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL 2020: IT'S WEIRD, EERIE, AND UNREAL. NOW, IT'S ALSO VIRAL
On behalf of the curatorial team, I am happy to announce that the 2020 edition of the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL which was previously postponed due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic will indeed happen. And sooner than later. From Monday 25 until Saturday May 30 2020, the entire program will be... Read more →