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Films



"8 BIT - a documentary about art and video games"
created by Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand
www.8bitmovie.com


Jon Rafman's "Arcade Hustler" (2009), 60 min



"Ins Universum der digitalen Spiele" four part serie about the history of computer games by 3sat, in german.



"The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters" (2007) by Seth Gordon

Blogs
  • Gamescenes: art in the age of videogames
  • Neural.it
  • Videoludica
  • Selectparks


  • Papers and articles
  • "Art Games: An introduction", by Kristine Plough, 1/12-05 Artificial.dk
  • "Computer Fictions", by Julian Stallabrass, Prospect no 84,Mmars 2003
  • "Games, the New Lively Art", by Henry Jenkins
  • "On a Number of Aspects of Artistic Computer Games" by Tilman Baumgärtel
  • "Parasitic Interventions: Game Patches and Hacker Art" by Anne-Marie Schleiner
  • "Patched In: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner about Computer Gaming Culture" (2003)
  • "Video-Game Art: Changing Software Meanings" by Alessandro Ludovico
  • "GAMING IN ART: A CASE STUDY OF TWO EXAMPLES OF THE ARTISTIC APPROPRIATION OF COMPUTER GAMES AND THE MAPPING OF HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES OF ‘ART GAMES’ VERSUS MAINSTREAM COMPUTER GAMES." master of arts thesis by Philippa Stalker, 2005
  • "Game mods as art" articel in Thinkinggames, 2006
  • "Skins, Patches, and Plug-ins" by Allyson D. Polsky in Genders Online Journal 34:2001
  • Games people play videofilmed lecture from 2005 at UCLA with Eddo Stern, Miltos Manetas.
  • Videofilmed lecture with Cory Arcangel at Columbia University 2004
  • "Game Art" by Matteo Bittanti from the book Gamescenes: Art in the Age of Videogames, 2007.
  • "Game Aesthetic" by Domenico Quaranta from the book Gamescenes: Art in the Age of Videogames, 2007.
  • Journal of Media Practice vol 7 issue 1 with some essays from the boook Gamescenes.
  • "THE RENDERED ARENA: Modalities of Space in Video and Computer Games" PhD thesis by Axel Stockburger 2006.
  • "Arcade Classics Spawn Art? Current Trends in the Art Game Genre" paper by Tiffany Holmes, 2003


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