NEWS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ISABELLE ARVERS

ISABELLE ARVERS, A LEADING THEORIST OF MACHINIMA, TALKS ABOUT THE AESTHETICS AND POLITICS OF THIS FORM OF EXPRESSION WITH FRENCH ONLINE MAGAZINE CULTURE MOBILE.

Isabelle Arvers is a French media art curator, critic and author, specializing in video and computer games, web animation, digital cinema, retrogaming, chiptune and machinima. She was born in Paris in 1972 and currently lives in Marseille. A short essay by Arvers will be included in the upcoming GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY catalogue.

Below is an excerpt from her recent conversation with Culture Mobile:

Arvers is also a practitioner. Her latest machinima productions deal with the politics of immigration in Europe, and especially France. She is producing a machinima documentary using a video game engine, photographs taken in the Calais "refugee center" also known as "the jungle", and interview with residents. Below are two excerpts titled "Zimako" and "Marko":

Read the full interview

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PRESENTATION SHOTS: MARCO CADIOLI (MAY 20, 2016)

Marco Cadioli, Post Photography Now, May 20, 2016, IULM Milan.

EVENT: MARCO CADIOLI, POST-PHOTOGRAPHY NOW (MAY 20, 2016)

Join us for a fascinating presentation by Italian artist Marco Cadioli about virtual photography, or, rather, real photography in virtual spaces, from videogames to virtual worlds.

PRESENTATION: MARCO CADIOLI

TITLE: POST-PHOTOGRAPHY NOW

DATE & TIME: FRIDAY MAY 20, 2016, 6 - 7.30 PM

LOCATION: ROOM 112 (IULM 1)

LANGUAGE: ITALIAN

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

PLEASE RSVP (WRITE "MARCO CADIOLI" IN THE SUBJECT LINE - LIMITED SEATING)

THE SPEAKER

Marco Cadioli is fascinated by images appearing on computer screens and the increasing blurring between real and virtual. Through his online journeys, he explores the new digital spaces created by virtual worlds. He explored online multiplayer games an “embedded” photographer, like a modern day Robert Capa, and with his avatar Marco Manray he published photo reportages from Second Life on several outlets. He currently investigates post-photographic practices and the emergence of digital mapping. He exhibited at Neoludica. Art is a game 2011-1966 (54a Biennale di Venezia 2011), BYOB (Padiglione Internet, Venezia 2011), AFK (Casino Luxembourg – 2011), Fotografia Festival (Roma, Macro Testaccio 2010), Odyssey art+performance sim in Second Life (2009), Reality Festival (Paris 2008), PEAM Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting (2006). Cadioli teaches at the Accademia di Belle Arti SantaGiulia of Brescia, and the Accademia di Comunicazione of Milan. Cadioli lives and works in Milan.

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VIDEO: VICTOR MORALES' QUANTUM JOY

QUANTUM JOY IS VICTOR MORALES' NEW PERFORMANCE. In this show, Morales takes his audiences for the ultimate digital performance ride, where particle robots, computer vision and mapped dynamic projections are used to answer universal questions about purpose in art and life.

Morales’s experience as puppeteer and theatre performer adds a humorous and humanizing touch to his digital creations. The artist interacts with his digital environments, as they exist in the way they would with traditional puppets and sets. Hi­-tech medium notwithstanding, the storytelling is at the core of the project. 

Quantum Joy debuted on December 4th 2015 at Dixon Place NYC.

Morales's recent work Maria is currently on display in the GLITCH level of GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY.

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Victor Morales received a Law Degree from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in 1990. In 1992, Morales completed a Master’s degree in Technology Applied to the Arts at New York University’s Gallatin Division. He spent more than a decade in New York City. Since 2003, Morales, “has been obsessed with the art of video game modifications and has implemented different game engines into most of the works he has participated in or created.” His performances with game engines (in particular, CryEngine) have consistently challenged the nature of simulation. Morales has performed a number of solo shows in art galleries, festivals, and events, including Performance Space 122, The Little Theater in New York City, The Collapsable Hole in Brooklyn, and Gessner Allee in Zurich, Theater Freiburg, and The Hau in Berlin, where he now lives and works

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FOCI + LOCI INTERVIEW

Treating map editors FOUND In video games as virtual sound stages, foci + loci create immersive electro-acoustic spaces with virtual instruments and timed audiovisual events.

foci + loci (Tamara Yadao and Chris Burke) are a duo living and working in New York. Saving and replaying digital game data, camera movement in space can be disassociated from time, changing traditional filmic relationships. They are are interested in exploring the topological treatment of time and space afforded by game engines. They received a NYSCA grant in 2013 for their game performance installation Bal(l)ade and have given workshops at 8static in Philadelphia, the Babycastles Summit at the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC) as well as lecturing on game sound and mashup culture at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the New School. Among others, Chris and Tamara have performed at Babycastles, Centre Pompidou, Cluster New Music festival, CultureHub, DistENDed Cinema at Outpost, Diapason Gallery, Peter Kirn’s Handmade Music series, Joe’s Pub, Secret Project Robot, The Stone, Vector Game + Integrated Arts Festival in Toronto and Game Play Festival 2011 at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Lebbeus Woods is a video capture of performable game space, part of what foci + loci call "time-based virtual architecture". 

The video interview was produced by the students of IULM's Master's Program in Arts, Markets, and Cultural Heritage. Editing and Subtitles: Mariacristina Maffeo

foci + loci' F.T. Mari0netti is currently on display in the ASSEMBLAGE level of GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY.

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