Art Disk

Artdisk is a zine dedicated to sharing information related to art and games.

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Hello and welcome!

I feel like the original disk zinesters would have been / are currently super excited about virtual reality. It used to be a sort of silly dream we had, taken seriously by the passionate few and now it’s almost within reach of all of us.

Access to this technology can be a huge challenge not only to create work for VR but to simply experience the work being done because the hardware is still developing. To everyone with a headset, or google cardboard, or super complicated Vive set up who has lugged their tech out into the world or so generously invited people into their home to share these experiences: I think we’ll look back and see that acts like these were a bigger part of the paradigm shift than we could have realized. So thank you :)

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Mentioned in this issue:

My Room, Cabbibo (Isaac Cohen)

Cave Carving, Fernando Ramallo

Museum of GIF Art (Loop Dreams), OONI & GIPHY

Oily Smoke, Mike Tucker

Amaryllis, Mariam Zakarian

Notes on Blindness ARTE Experience & Ex Nihilo

Sensorama, Morton L. Heilig

Northway Games

Games Curious, Hand Eye Society

HUGE thanks to Sarah and Colin Northway!

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Hello and welcome!

Happy new year! That last year was kind of a doozy. It’s not that year anymore, it’s an entirely new year ready to be filled with games and art.

Among all the things that happened in 2016 there is something I’m so grateful for. I reached out to the universe and said hey, I like strange games. I had no idea you all were out there liking them too.

Thanks for reading this little book :)

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Mentioned in this issue:

Buried, Tara Copplestone, Luke Botham

blind to siberia, calico reverie and alxalxalx

It Whispers, You Listen, Aleks Samoylov

Fermi Pasteladox, William Anderson

Does Canned Rice Dream Of A Napkin Heap?, Caelyn Sandel, Carolyn VanEseltine, Danielle Church, & Jamie Sandel

Underground Hangovers, Deconstructeam

Feel Face, Samuel Boucher

w1tchkr4ft, Maurice Grela, Ivy Edwards Wilson

HUGE thanks to Samuel Boucher, Maurice Grela and Ivy Edwards Wilson.

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Hello and welcome! Happy Halloween!

Don’t be scared! Do be scared! Feel all the feelings :)

Scary media tackles the themes and questions that we don’t otherwise have the opportunity to comfortably shake out. The paranormal, the existential, technology, conspiracy; the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns*. All the best stuff.

Personally, I am so affected by it I have to take tiny and super cautious little steps in. I am looking forward to my future enthusiasm for the genre though.

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*Sword and Sworcery <3 please play it. please please please please please please please please

Mentioned in this issue:

Anatomy, Kittyhorrorshow

A Ghost Porno Page-By-Page, Takorii, Mc Hepher

Morning Rituals, Silverstring Media

Tonight You Die, Duende Games, GRYPT

Devil Daggers, Sorath

Spooky Selfie, Brenden Gibbons

Heart Projector

HUGE thanks to ceMelusine and Ben Duncan!

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Hello and welcome! My friend Justin and I launched a game last month called Cribbage With Grandpas. It can be a meditation on the value of care and human connection, a memorial, or a silly and relaxing game of cards.

If you happen to check it out please drop us a line - I have especially loved hearing about everyone’s grandpas. They come up a lot more in conversation these days.

This is my actual grandpa. I didn’t expect him to make an appearance in my artistic life. Art is weird. Justin’s is in the game too but secretly.

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Mentioned in this issue:

Corbeaux, George Prosser

Duckamera, Concrete Games

Crowtel, @SinksAdventure

Nest, Cullen Dwyer

Farewell Brother, wareware

The Magpie Ditty, Titouan Millet, Pol Claris- sou, Dziff

Lacuna, Rooksfeather

HUGE thanks to daffodil and rooksfeather!

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Issue 5, July 2016

Hello and welcome!

Do you know about Oxytocin? I think it’s probably my favourite hormone. One way our brains are stimulated to make it is when we interact with someone we love. It’s responsible for social bond- ing and sensitivity to social cues. It plays a role in other neat things like empathy and compassion. Some suspect that it’s release can also be stimulated by storytelling.

Games have the power to transport you to a new place, body, or into an entirely new person. They are uniquely suited to telling stories and sharing experiences. Does that mean they could make you a more empathic and understanding person? Not to get super serious or anything, but it’s probably not out of the question.

Mentioned in this issue:

Lim, Merritt Kopas

With Those We Love Alive, Porpentine

Rinse and Repeat, Robert Yang

Cyclothymia, Kara Stone

SABBAT, Eva Problems

Triad, Anna Anthropy

HUGE thanks to Tim Bauer!

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Issue 4, May 2016

Hello and welcome!

I had a great conversation with someone at VANCAF a little while ago. He was giving away copies of his Comics-Based Research. He told me about how in Europe comics are referred to as the ninth art, and have been for a long time.

The philosopher Hegel included five arts in his System of the Individual Arts. Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music, and Poetry. Dance, Cinema and TV/Broadcasting were added about a century later and Comics, the most recent addition, in the 1960’s. It took about another thirty years for them to start receiving this kind of attention in North America.

There are interesting parallels between comics and games. Both media have endured becoming the scapegoat for moral panics related to their content and struggled to achieve legitimacy as an art form. So, in honour of the ninth (and tenth?) art, this issue of Art Disk is dedicated to both the comics and games worlds and all the passion, insight and hard work that go into them.

Mentioned in this issue:

INTERNET MURDER REVENGE FANTASY, Merritt Kopas

The Yawgh, Damian Sommer and Emily Carroll

Murder Dog IV: Trial Of The Murder Dog, thecatamites

Horse Master, Tom McHenry

We Know The Devil, Aevee Bee, Mia Schwartz,Alec Lambert, Date Nighto

The Raccoon Who Lost Their Shape, Fathom and Scuffy

HUGE thanks to Ben Duncan and Martin Tuataraczynowicz

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Issue 3, March 2016

Hello and welcome!

Spring in this city is as absurdly covered in flowers as the internet is covered in strange and wonderful interactive experiences.

Mentioned in this issue:

One With Nature, foodshipnine

Garden, Daniel Linssen

Plants, Alex Mole

Vine, jjmajava

Carrots and Cream, @AergiaGame

A Good Gardener, Ian Endsley and Carter Lod- wick

No Holds Billiards, coolpoolclub.itch.io

HUGE thanks to Martin Tuataraczynowicz, Maurice Grela and Kevan Yip!

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Issue 2, February 2016

February is a month about feeling lots of things. Love, angst, stress, cold, and damp are some regulars for me. I also get a little homesick this time of year for the bitter Winnipeg cold that I never thought I’d miss. Inside this issue you’ll find a number of nice things to stay inside and work on, a couple things to venture out in the rain for, a collection and a few messages / places to find strange games online.

Special thanks to thanks to contributors Jaymee Mak, Martin Tuataraczynowicz and Ben Duncan!

Mentioned in this issue:

Halloween Otome, Synokoria

Katawa Shoujo, Four Leaf Studios 

Queers in Love at the End of the World, Anna Anthropy 

Cute Demon Crashers, Sugar Script

Get Dumped, Macuyo

Ristorante Amore, Cyanide Tea

Cribbage With Grandpas, Less Than Three Interactive

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Issue 1, January 2016

Mentioned in this issue:

Benthic Love, Mike Joffe

Pale Machine,  Ben Esposito and Bo-En

Edda, Diane Mueller

Naut, Lucie Viatgé, Tom Victor and Titouan Millet

Vesper 5, Michael Brough

Howling Dogs, Porpentine

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Hello and welcome!

This is Art Disk! Our physical manifestation is 3.5 square inches and contains a modest amount of information related to art and technology. Or more specifically about the lovely things that happen when art and technology overlap.

It is named after the “diskzines” that predated the internet. These executable files were physically shared by enthusiasts on floppy disks and when opened would display a graphic user interface, often with audio and other features, through which the user could access the data. Intended to celebrate the small and strange interactive experiences that are bubbling up from the internet’s subconscious AD also aims to share knowledge relevant to the creation of games, interactive digital art experiences and everything in between. Physical copies of Art Disk can be found in Vancouver BC if you reeeeeeeeeally want to find them (contact [email protected]). Digital versions are posted here a couple days after the physical copies are printed. Feel free to print them out and make your own as well! Take a look at this post to find out how :)