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* Grant Tavinor, [https://kevinjpatton.com/teaching/phil_3230/readings/Grant%20Tavinor%20-%20The%20Art%20of%20Videogames.pdf#page=179 "Videogames as Art"], ch. 9 in Tavinor, ''The Art of Videogames'', Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444310177 Publisher]. | * Grant Tavinor, [https://kevinjpatton.com/teaching/phil_3230/readings/Grant%20Tavinor%20-%20The%20Art%20of%20Videogames.pdf#page=179 "Videogames as Art"], ch. 9 in Tavinor, ''The Art of Videogames'', Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444310177 Publisher]. | ||
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| + | * Manojlo Maravić, ''Kritika politike i fenomenologije video-igara'' [Critique of politics and phenomenology of video games], Novi Sad: Vojvođanska akademija nauka i umetnosti, 2011. PhD thesis. {{sr}} | ||
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| + | * Manojlo Maravić, [https://www.academia.edu/112560417/ "Relacije umetnosti i video igara"] [Relations of Art and Video Games], ''Art+Media'' 1, Sep 2012, pp 93-104. {{sr}} | ||
* Mathias Jansson, ''[[Media:Jansson_Mathias_Everything_I_Shoot_Is_Art_2012.pdf|Everything I Shoot Is Art]]'', Brescia: Link Editions, 2012. | * Mathias Jansson, ''[[Media:Jansson_Mathias_Everything_I_Shoot_Is_Art_2012.pdf|Everything I Shoot Is Art]]'', Brescia: Link Editions, 2012. | ||
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* Helena Bendová, ''Umění počítačových her'', Prague: NAMU, 2016, 354 pp. [https://www.academia.edu/33055824/ TOC]. [https://namu.cz/umeni-pocitacovych-her Publisher]. Reviews: [http://vvp.avu.cz/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Sesit_2017_23_Franc.pdf Franc] (Sešit), [http://cinepur.cz/article.php?article=4248 Tesař] (Cinepur), [http://www.iliteratura.cz/Clanek/38685/bendova-helena-umeni-pocitacovych-her Lukavec] (iLiteratura), [http://25fps.cz/2017/pocitacove-hry-jsou-umeni/ Komínek] (25fps). {{cz}} | * Helena Bendová, ''Umění počítačových her'', Prague: NAMU, 2016, 354 pp. [https://www.academia.edu/33055824/ TOC]. [https://namu.cz/umeni-pocitacovych-her Publisher]. Reviews: [http://vvp.avu.cz/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Sesit_2017_23_Franc.pdf Franc] (Sešit), [http://cinepur.cz/article.php?article=4248 Tesař] (Cinepur), [http://www.iliteratura.cz/Clanek/38685/bendova-helena-umeni-pocitacovych-her Lukavec] (iLiteratura), [http://25fps.cz/2017/pocitacove-hry-jsou-umeni/ Komínek] (25fps). {{cz}} | ||
| − | * Helena Bendová, ''Co je nového v počítačových hrách'', Prague: Nová beseda, 2019. {{cz}} | + | * Lana Polansky, [https://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/aug/03/an-art-history-for-videogames/ "Towards an Art History for Videogames"], ''Rhizome'', 3 Aug 2016. |
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| + | * Helena Bendová, ''Co je nového v počítačových hrách'', Prague: Nová beseda, 2019, 100 pp. [https://www.novabeseda.cz/book/co-je-noveho-v-pocitacovych-hrach Publisher]. {{cz}} | ||
* Mike Sell, [https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0123 "Modernist Afterlives In Performance—Playing the Avant-Garde: The Aesthetics, Narratives, and Communities of Video Game Vanguards"], ''Modernism/modernity'' 4:3, Oct 2019. | * Mike Sell, [https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0123 "Modernist Afterlives In Performance—Playing the Avant-Garde: The Aesthetics, Narratives, and Communities of Video Game Vanguards"], ''Modernism/modernity'' 4:3, Oct 2019. | ||
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* ''Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age'', ed. Julia Stoschek Foundation, intro. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hatje Cantz, Aug 2024, 176 pp. [https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/66041-worldbuilding Publisher]. [https://jsfoundation.art/exhibitions/worldbuilding/ Exhibition], [https://www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/en/programme/exposition/worldbuilding]. | * ''Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age'', ed. Julia Stoschek Foundation, intro. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hatje Cantz, Aug 2024, 176 pp. [https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/66041-worldbuilding Publisher]. [https://jsfoundation.art/exhibitions/worldbuilding/ Exhibition], [https://www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/en/programme/exposition/worldbuilding]. | ||
| − | * ''Enter the Room'', Prague: Galerie hlavního města Prahy, 2025, 212 pp. Exh. cat. [https://eshop.ghmp.cz/enter-the-room/ Publisher]. [https://www.ghmp.cz/en/exhibitions/enter-the-room/ Exhibition]. {{cz}}/{{en}} | + | * Aleksandra Prokopek, Agata Waszkiewicz, "Avant-Garde is Dead? On Arrière-Garde and Digital Games", ''Games and Culture'', 2024. [https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120241287006 DOI]. |
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| + | * ''Enter the Room'', Prague: Galerie hlavního města Prahy, 2025, 212 pp. Exh. cat. [https://eshop.ghmp.cz/enter-the-room/ Publisher]. [https://www.ghmp.cz/en/exhibitions/enter-the-room/ Exhibition]. Exh. review: [https://artalk.info/news/hrat-si-v-pokojicku-na-konci-sveta Loginov] (Artalk). {{cz}}/{{en}} | ||
==Films shot inside video games== | ==Films shot inside video games== | ||
| − | * [https://www.visionsdureel.ch/en/film/2023/knits-island/ | + | * ''[https://submarinechannel.com/minimovie/minimovie-molotov-alva/ Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey]'', 10 eps, dir. Douglas Gayeton, 2008, 35 min. [http://molotovalva.submarinechannel.com Film website]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_Alva_and_His_Search_for_the_Creator WP]. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1100132/ IMDB]. |
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| − | + | * ''Parallel I-IV'', dir. [[Harun Farocki]], 2012-2014, 16, 9, 7, 11 min. [http://angelsbarcelona.com/files/229_work_FICHA%20DOSSIER_harun_farocki_2014__Bilingue.pdf About], [https://www.mamac-nice.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2017_EN_Farocki_JOURNAL.pdf]. | |
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| + | * ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK-RqTVWBSE Total Refusal: How to Disappear. Deserting Battlefield]'', dir. Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, and Michael Stumpf, 2020, 21 min. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11570412/ IMDB]. | ||
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| + | * ''We are such things as dreams are made on'', dir. Sam Crane, 2022, 10 min. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16986702/ IMDB]. | ||
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| + | * ''[https://totalrefusal.com/home/hardly-working Hardly Working]'', dir. Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, and Leonhard Müllner, 2022, 20 min. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21802584/ IMDB]. | ||
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| + | * ''Knit's Island'', dir. Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls, 2023, 95 min. [https://www.visionsdureel.ch/en/film/2023/knits-island/ About]. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27489748/ IMDB]. | ||
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| + | * ''Grand Theft Hamlet'', dir. Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, and Quentin L'Helgouac'h, 2024, 89 min. [https://www.undiscoveredcountryfilm.com/ Film website]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Hamlet WP]. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28244549/ IMDB]. | ||
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| + | * ''USS Callister: Into Infinity'', Black Mirror S07E06, dir. Toby Haynes, 2025, 88 min. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Callister:_Into_Infinity WP]. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31790115/ IMDB]. [https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmirror/comments/1jvrvin/black_mirror_episode_discussion_s07e06_uss/ Reddit]. | ||
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==Recent exhibitions== | ==Recent exhibitions== | ||
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Contents
Pages[edit]
Publications[edit]
- Anne-Marie Schleiner, "Parasitic Interventions: Game Patches and Hacker Art", c1998. Lecture.
- Switch: "Art & Games", CADRE Laboratory for New Media/San Jose State University, 1999. Special issue of online magazine.
- Tiffany Holmes, "Art Games and Breakout: New Media Meets the American Arcade", 2002.
- games. Computerspiele von KünstlerInnen, ed. Tilman Baumgärtel, Dortmund: hARTware medien kunst verein, and Frankfurt/M: Revolver, 2003, 127 pp. Exh. catalogue. Exhibition. Editor. [1] [2] (German),(English)
- Tilman Baumgärtel, "Zu einigen Themen künstlerischer Computerspiele", MedienKunstNetz, 2004. (German)
- "On a Number of Aspects of Artistic Computer Games", MediaArtNet, 2004.
- Celia Pearce, "Games as Art: The Aesthetics of Play", Visible Language 40(1): "Fluxus After Fluxus", eds. Ken Friedman and Owen F. Smith, Jan 2006, pp 66-89.
- Matteo Bittanti, Domenico Quaranta (eds.), Gamescenes: Art in the Age of Videogames / GameScenes. L'arte nell'era dei videogiochi, Monza: Johan & Levi, 2006, 456 pp. TOC, Book website. Review: Debatty (WMMNA). (English)/(Italian)
- Domenico Quaranta, "Game Aesthetics: How Videogames Are Transforming Contemporary Art", pp 297-308.
- Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito, "Deep Play", section in At the Edge of Art, Thames & Hudson, 2006. Book website, Book introduction. [3]
- Journal of Media Practice 7(1), eds. Grethe Mitchell and Andy Clarke, 2006. Special issue on videogames and art. [4]
- Andy Clarke, Grethe Mitchell (eds.), Videogames and Art, Bristol: Intellect, 2007, 283 pp; 2nd ed., 2013.
- Mary Flanagan, "Artists' Locative Games", ch 6 in Flanagan, Critical Play: Radical Game Design, MIT Press, 2009, pp 189-222.
- Mary Flanagan, "Critical Computer Games", ch 7 in Flanagan, Critical Play: Radical Game Design, MIT Press, 2009, pp 223-249.
- Grant Tavinor, "Videogames as Art", ch. 9 in Tavinor, The Art of Videogames, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Publisher.
- Manojlo Maravić, Kritika politike i fenomenologije video-igara [Critique of politics and phenomenology of video games], Novi Sad: Vojvođanska akademija nauka i umetnosti, 2011. PhD thesis. (Serbian)
- Manojlo Maravić, "Relacije umetnosti i video igara" [Relations of Art and Video Games], Art+Media 1, Sep 2012, pp 93-104. (Serbian)
- Mathias Jansson, Everything I Shoot Is Art, Brescia: Link Editions, 2012.
- Iluminace 24(2): "Počítačové hry jako expresivní médium", ed. Jaroslav Švelch, Prague: Národní filmový archiv, 2012, 142 pp. (Czech)
- Larissa Hjorth, "The Art of Games: Machinima and the Limits of Art Games", in Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds, ed. Jenna Ng, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, pp 129-146.
- Brian Schrank, Avant-garde Videogames: Playing with Technoculture, forew. Jay David Bolter, MIT Press, 2014, 217 pp, EPUB. Publisher.
- Erin Gavin, "Press Start: Video Games and Art", Valley Humanities Review, Spring 2014.
- Stephan Schwingeler, Kunstwerk Computerspiel. Digitale Spiele als künstlerisches Material. Eine bildwissenschaftliche und medientheoretische Analyse, Bielefeld: transcript, 2014, 376 pp. [5] (German)
- Helena Bendová, "Hry jako umění pohledem kritiky: případ Games.cz", Game Art: Web o umění počítačových her, Prague, 7 Jan 2014. (Czech)
- John Sharp, Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art, MIT Press, 2015, 160 pp. [6]
- Helena Bendová, Umění počítačových her, Prague: NAMU, 2016, 354 pp. TOC. Publisher. Reviews: Franc (Sešit), Tesař (Cinepur), Lukavec (iLiteratura), Komínek (25fps). (Czech)
- Lana Polansky, "Towards an Art History for Videogames", Rhizome, 3 Aug 2016.
- Helena Bendová, Co je nového v počítačových hrách, Prague: Nová beseda, 2019, 100 pp. Publisher. (Czech)
- Mike Sell, "Modernist Afterlives In Performance—Playing the Avant-Garde: The Aesthetics, Narratives, and Communities of Video Game Vanguards", Modernism/modernity 4:3, Oct 2019.
- Jaroslav Švelch, Jak obehrát železnou oponu. Počítačové hry a participativní kultura v normalizačním Československu, Prague: Akropolis, 2021, 416 pp. Publisher. (Czech)
- Klaudia Jancsovics, "Play the Art: Artistic Value in Video Games", Replay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies 8:1, 2021, pp 37-51.
- Frank G. Bosman, Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, Video Games as Art: A Communication-Oriented Perspective on the Relationship between Gaming and the Art, De Gruyter, 2022, 115 pp. OAPEN.
- Flash Art CS 69: "Gaming", Oct-Nov 2023. [7] (Czech),(Slovak)
- Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age, ed. Julia Stoschek Foundation, intro. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hatje Cantz, Aug 2024, 176 pp. Publisher. Exhibition, [8].
- Aleksandra Prokopek, Agata Waszkiewicz, "Avant-Garde is Dead? On Arrière-Garde and Digital Games", Games and Culture, 2024. DOI.
- Enter the Room, Prague: Galerie hlavního města Prahy, 2025, 212 pp. Exh. cat. Publisher. Exhibition. Exh. review: Loginov (Artalk). (Czech)/(English)
Films shot inside video games[edit]
- Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey, 10 eps, dir. Douglas Gayeton, 2008, 35 min. Film website. WP. IMDB.
- Parallel I-IV, dir. Harun Farocki, 2012-2014, 16, 9, 7, 11 min. About, [9].
- Total Refusal: How to Disappear. Deserting Battlefield, dir. Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, and Michael Stumpf, 2020, 21 min. IMDB.
- We are such things as dreams are made on, dir. Sam Crane, 2022, 10 min. IMDB.
- Hardly Working, dir. Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, and Leonhard Müllner, 2022, 20 min. IMDB.
- Grand Theft Hamlet, dir. Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, and Quentin L'Helgouac'h, 2024, 89 min. Film website. WP. IMDB.
- USS Callister: Into Infinity, Black Mirror S07E06, dir. Toby Haynes, 2025, 88 min. WP. IMDB. Reddit.
Recent exhibitions[edit]
- Notgames Fest, Cologne Game Lab, 2011; 2013; 2015.
- Game No Game, Deák 17 Gallery, Budapest, 15 Jan-25 Feb 2023. Curated by C3 Foundation. [10]
- 8-bit, Satelit Gallery/Slovak Design Centre, Bratislava, 8 Mar-30 Apr 2023. Curated by Maroš Brojo.
- No Fun III: Trans*grese, etc. galerie, Prague, 28 Mar-14 May 2023. Curated by No Fun Collective. [11]
- Game Society, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 12 May-10 Sep 2023. Curated by Hong Leeji. [12] [13]
- Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age, Centre Pompidou Metz, 10 Jun 2023-15 Jan 2024.
- Enter the Room, Prague City Gallery, 28 Mar-14 Sep 2025.
Resources[edit]
- List of exhibitions and bibliography, compiled by Mathias Jansson.
- Game Art Worlds: The Early Years, interviews with pioneers of game art by Mathias Jansson and Matteo Bittanti.
- Gamescenes, ed. Matteo Bittanti, launched 2006.
- Resource on Game art at CAS FAMU Prague, launched 2013. Bibliography. (Czech)
See also[edit]
Links[edit]
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