Artgamez

An academic-research focused blog about Art and Technology- including but not limited to: Artgames, Artists games, Game Art, Digital Art, Fine art game design, and New media arts

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Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. In all the arts there is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power. For the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was from time immemorial. We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.

Paul Valéry, Pièces sur L’Art, 1931

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Walking past NPCs and hearing an argument/juicy gossip...

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I was always sub zero... Always.

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Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. Though formally varied, his projects frequently manipulate the roles of individual elements arranged in diverse visual populations. This often unearths unexpected pattern as the relationship between the part and the whole, the individual and the group, is explored. Reflecting a natural attraction to popular culture and the day-to-day, his work regularly incorporates the use of common references and source material. The final compositions are exhibited as art objects, such as photographic prints and video installations, while others exist in a real-time software context.

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MoMA | New Acquisition: Feng Mengbo’s Long March: Restart

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Six game series of non-digital art games that abstract autobiographical experiences[...]of human tragedies

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How do you convince people that games aren’t bad for you and that there is a big future for it?

I received a fan mail with this question, and thought I should answer it. I could talk about how the average gamer’s age is 37, or that there were $22.4 billion in consumer buying in 2014. I could mention that 63% of parents think that games are a positive part of their childrens’ lives, and 59% of parents game with their children weekly at the very least. I could mention that the average engineer salary for 3 years of experience or less is around $70,000, the average artist earns $50,000, or a designer earns $33,000. 

But honestly, most older people I know tend to be very set in their ways, and that makes it difficult to change their minds. They’ve got ideas set in their heads, especially sticking to old ideas like video arcades being havens for criminals and miscreants. If they’re old enough to remember that, they’re unlikely to change their minds about it now. However, the good news is that, like it is with any kind of new technology, the best way to convince them is to simply wait and let time pass. Games have become more and more pervasive in our culture. The average age of gamers has steadily risen over the years, and the gamers who cut their teeth on the consoles of the 80s and 90s have grown up and had children of their own. The older generation will continue to age into irrelevance, while the next generation of adults will continue to take their places in society.

The thing is… working in the industry definitely isn’t for everybody. There’s a very good reason that most hopefuls will quit from the industry within 5 years of starting. However, if what you want is to justify your choice of career - especially to a doubting family - there is no better weapon than success. My family was not terribly keen on my choice of career either, and harried me for years to find a better, more stable job. Opportunities for such careers (typically government work) came and went but I remained dedicated to developing games. At one point, I had to offer a deal - if I couldn’t get to the point where I was earning a reasonable living making games within a year, I would go and pursue a more stable government job. Eventually, I proved to them that I was a financially self-sufficient and fully capable adult, they eventually and finally acknowledged that it was a legitimate career. You may need to do something similar. I wish you luck.

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How many times does a generation get to witness the birth of an entirely new artistic medium? I mean games could be the collaboration between everything we’ve learned to date, as humans, about telling stories through visuals, through audio, and now with the added component of interactivity. I do think that we are on the precipice of an extremely exciting time right now, and that this is an amazing opportunity that we’re being given here.

- Kellee Santiago, TEDxUSC

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The first great works of digital literature are already being written

Video games could be the greatest storytelling medium of our age – if only the worlds of art and technology would stop arguing and take notice

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First of all, in terms of history I’d like to say the vast majority of the medieval world as we think of it was all kinds of people with various shades of brown skin moving back and forth across borders. Yes, there were people in remote little areas who might have never encountered anyone who looked any different than themselves, but overall there was a lot of movement and a lot of contact and a lot of exchange of ideas, crossing transcultural, trans-religious, trans-ethnic zones. There are a lot of people with different ideas about races, throughout the history of the Middle Ages, that talk about things like skin color — not in the same terms we do now, but thinking about the different ways we look and what that might mean. And so there’s entirely different ways of constructing “race” as well. If all you care about is historical accuracy, it is certainly possible in any historical period to find a remote spot where everyone there looks completely homogeneous. But that is not, I would say, what medieval history looked like, in which people directly encountered and were highly aware of different parts of the world and what was going on.

The Inaccuracy Of “Historical Accuracy” In Gaming And Media (via Techcrunch)

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They see me rollin’, they hatin’

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