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07 02 2009
GameStudies
Essay: Architecture Levels
by Matteo Bittanti
Essay: Architecture Levels In this interesting essay, Matteo Lo Prete examines the relationship between videogames and architecture.

06 22 2009
GameScenes
News: GameScenes gets its own blog
by Matteo Bittanti
News: GameScenes gets its own blog GameScenes, originally a channel of videoludica.com dedicated to Game Art, is now a full-fledged blog edited by Matteo Bittanti.
06 22 2009
GameStudies
Essays: Computer Games Between Text and Practice
by Matteo Bittanti
Essays: Computer Games Between Text and Practice Italy's premier semiotics journal E/C has just published a fantastic collection of essays under the title "Computer Games. Between Text and Practice", edited by Patrick Coppock and Dario Compagno. The anthology - available in print form - can be freely accessed online as well.
05 04 2009
GameScenes
GameArt: Riley Harmon's Watermelons
by Matteo Bittanti
GameArt: Riley Harmon's Watermelons

Riley Harmon's latest installation, "A Watermelon in the World" is a playful take on Counter-Strike. 

 
03 13 2009
GameStudies
Event: Virtual Worlds (Mountain View, CA, March 30)
by Matteo Bittanti
On March 30 2009, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California will host a one day conference on the origins and history of Virtual Worlds: panelists include one of the creators of the first avatars, a leading practitioner of in-world life, a business visionary behind the studio system of Virtual Worlds, and a journalist/pundit of in-world and off-world news and views of the inhabitants and industry. Bruce Damer, a Virtual Worlds pioneer, visionary and historian will lead off with a condensed history of the medium and then pose key questions to the panel and the audience about where the medium is today and where it may be headed. Henry Lowood will present the Stanford Humanities Lab and will discuss the challeges of digital game preservation.
03 02 2009
GameScenes
Websites: A-Maze
by Matteo Bittanti
Websites: A-Maze The A MAZE Festival "celebrates the convergence of computer games and art. Computer games are based on more than new technologies, they present a way of life surpassing the basics of fun and gameplay".
03 02 2009
GameScenes
Floating Points 6: Games of Culture/Art of Games (Emerson College, March 20-21)
by Matteo Bittanti
On March 21-22, Emerson College (Boston, MA) is hosting "Floating Points 6", which comprises a film Screening, Symposium and Workshops with Asi Burak, Anita Fontaine, Jesper Juul, Friedrich Kirschner, Marcin Ramocki, Jason Rohrer, Adriana de Souza Silva, Mushon Zer-Aviv.

 

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