Museum Hilversum and guest curator Alan Boom, in collaboration with Submarine Channel, organized the first small scale museum in The Netherlands about Game Art. It’s Art in the Game April 14 – July 1, 2012 Museum Hilversum Kerkbrink 6, Hilversum, Netherlands (Bing map) One might sense a certain hesitance among Dutch museums, especially small ones, … Continued
This special Do It! event revolves around the presentation of three video games developed by visual artists in collaboration with game designers: Sollmann (Part 1: The Harbour) by Marcel van Eeden and Jorrit de Vries FLX. by Han Hoogebrugge and Sander van der Vegte StyleClash – The Painting Machine Construction Kit by Jochem van der … Continued
Piercing through the gathering darkness of autumn on Amsterdam’s ancient Dam square, a shimmering screen nestled among Hieronymus-meets-an-oil-spill sculptures, sees into your (yes YOUR!) soul, transforming what lurks beneath into brilliant beams of color as you walk on by. The work of transglobal angel-bots Champagne Valentine for clothing label Diesel, it sets a new precedent … Continued
Unbeknown to the lofty curators of the global contemporary high-art bastion known as le MoMA, a secret exhibition is inaugurating this Saturday, taking over all nine floors – including an extra virtual 7th floor! Dutch augmentalist Sander Veenhof has teamed up with native New Yorker Mark Swarek to create a complete exhibition throughout the entire … Continued
Interactive hotshots Champagne Valentine just dropped a sumptuously sinister interactive website commissioned by Tate Modern for the launch of How It Is, the new exhibition by high-brow artworld darling Miroslaw Balka. Combining Flash and Papervision technologies they create the essence of darkness, using complex shading algorithms to allow users to explore a series of dark … Continued
Anita Fontaine, the electro-craft mistress who brought us Second Life’s celebrated Harlequin Lodge, has modified the violent Unreal Tournament video game to poppy, pink-hued new ends. A retro-futuristic cyber visual overload takes the player on a mission to join the kawaii-influenced religious cult of CuteXdoom, where the worship of fluffy material objects and obsessive consumption … Continued
The digital genii at Universal Everything have created a generative design system that produces unique, sound-reactive animations every day, forever. That’s right: Forever! Towering magestically among the lawns of the V&A’s ornate 19th-Century courtyard, is the slinky Universal Everything video wall, hatching its endless audio-visual artworks until Febraury 1st (the system keeps on hatching but … Continued
It must be said, every year TodaysArt Festival brings something really stunning. For example, at the 2006 edition we witnessed a great performance by Structet that took Wagner’s ideas for a Gesamtkunstwerk to the next level with a piece called Building Music in which the huge atrium of The Hague’s city hall was overflowing with … Continued
MOMA in New York asked itself a question; Is graffiti a misdemeanour art or a full fledged felony? According to the New York State penal code it’s a felony. According to MOMA it’s art. Now, the boys from GraffitiResearchLab sold a piece to MOMA that might just eliminate graffiti’s malicious intent to damage (making it … Continued
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