Some very nice footage I found online, showing vintage animated computer graphics. More on VintageCG's YouTube channel.

Past 16th July, Kunsthalle New in Chicago presented the -one night only- exhibition 'A Small Forest', a presentation curated by Bea Fremderman and Nicholas O' Brien. It included the work of artists Michael Manning, Camilla Padgitt-Coles, Kate Steciw, and myself. The exhibition focused on "delicate landscapes developed and appropriated by artists that have been found and manipulated within the space of the screen..."

"The exhibition's premise is wonderfully illustrated by Michiel van der Zanden’s Painting LargeFlatMap100. This brings up issues of relationality, being, and, of course, aesthetics. At once a joke, a provocation and a mediation, van der Zanden’s piece explores spatiality and visual relations within a virtual world. Make sure to watch until the end and you’ll be rewarded with cacophony." Joel Kuennen - ArtSlant

For more information and images, check www.kunsthallenew.com (Exhibitions -> Past-> A Small Forest)

Waiting for the drawbridge of the Erasmusbrug in Rotterdam, this situation made me think of computergame glitches... Bringing me back to the work of Robert Overweg.

More on glitches in this post.

Beautiful designed and well-playable Flash site by graphic designers Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielińscy. Here you can play 80's LCD games, on-screen, no download needed.

www.pica-pic.com

Look at my earlier post about LCD games too...
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Previous post reminded me of this episode by online cult figure ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD. This one's about game glitches (errors); a classic in my opinion.

Also check this post.
Angry Video Game Nerd's homepage

New stop-motion video by Rymdreglage: Rymdreglage - Raise your little hand. Kind of a sequel to 8-bit trip.

A lot of the retro/8bit/Lego/pixelation/nostalgia is played out. But it won't get any better than this!

Note the bugged text and low res graphics in some parts.

(c) www.rymdreglage.se

WWW.GAMESCENES.ORG is a blog about art in the age of videogames. This is an interview I had by E-mail earlier this year, with Mathias Jansson, one of the contributors of www.gamescenes.org.

->LINK!

From 16 till 19 August, two of my Machinima-like videos (Pwned Paintings # 1 and # 2), will be shown at PLATINE Festival, (Elektronische Kunst und alternatieve Spielvormen) Cologne, Germany.






Check www.platine-cologne.de

I came across Susy Oliveira's work at the Paper Cut exhibition at KOP last June (above picture). Just like Damiano Colacito's work (see May's post), Susy makes polygon-like threedimensional objects built from colorprinted paper.







More on www.susyoliveira.ca

History was made with these entertaining and addictive, beautifully designed artefacts...Electronic handheld games.

"Game & Watch is a line of handheld electronic games produced by Nintendo from 1980 to 1985. Created by game designer Gunpei Yokoi, each Game & Watch features a single game to be played on an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen in addition to a clock and an alarm (thus, 'Game & Watch').
Gunpei Yokoi, traveling on a bullet train, saw a bored businessman playing with an LCD calculator by pressing the buttons. Yokoi then thought of an idea for a watch that doubled as a miniature game machine for killing time." -Wikipedia


My nostalgia collecting mania was triggered by this book:

Electronic Plastic, 2000. www.handhelden.com

Here you can find some cool G&W emulators (!): www.zophar.net/gw.html,
and this is the most complete handheld database: www.handheldmuseum.com (it's worth its name).
And finally, the blog of a fanatical collector: www.balduin.wordpress.com/category/game-collection.

Found online. The recreation of game objects, put in real-life environments. By Damiano Colacito (IT).
More info here.

After days of struggling with The Sims 3™, Sims Create-A-World-Tool, S3PE Package Editor and various editing software, I managed to finish my first version of this video, 'Painting FlatMap100 (The Sims 3)'.

Painting LargeFlatMap100 (The Sims 3), 2010, Digital Video, 4:41 min from Michiel van der Zanden on Vimeo.

12 February - 14 March:

'Texture Maps' at NEST, The Hague.
A group exhibition about the visual influence of the computergame on contemporary art.

Featuring: Eelco Brand, Robbie Cornelissen, Robert Overweg, Rafaël Rozendaal, Oscar Stegehuis and Michiel van der Zanden.

NEST
De Constant Rebequeplein 20b
2518 RA The Hague
NL

www.nestruimte.nl/texturemaps

www.michielvanderzanden.nl

Found online: PAC MONDRIAN


"Pac-Mondrian closes the perceptual distance between fine art and video games by combining Piet Mondrian's Modernist masterpiece 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' with Toru Iwatani's classic video game Pac-Man. The two new Ms. Pac-Mondrian levels return the painting to the dance clubs that inspired it with music by contemporary techno musicians mapping the birth of electronic music in their home towns."

http://pbfb.ca/pac-mondrian/

I noticed that a lot of sceneries in Empire Total War (PC-game, 2009), show similarities with 17th century seascape paintings.

Painting update. Camera security at the Military Museum. (Also check February's post).

I visited the Venice Biennial a couple of weeks ago. This piece by Michelangelo Pistoletto (great name!) was one of the first I saw there, and I was instantly impressed by the simplicity and effectiveness of it. Pistoletto uses the mirror, which is a traditional object and recurring theme in the history of art. The mirrors are brutally vandalised, with large holes and cracks in them, and splinters lying all around. Although presented in a quiet way, you could still feel the action.

Sometimes, when playing a game, you come across bizarre situations. Programming errors, that weren't intended to happen, messing up the game's graphics, physics, or A.I. These errors are called bugs, or glitches. A bug is more like a typical error, like random freezing, or crashes. A glitch is an aspect in-game, that creates unintended gameplay and strange behaviour. This allows you to experience a game in a way, the developers didn't want you to, which can result in very funny situations. Some good examples I found online: