GAME VIDEO ESSAY B features a series of documentaries made with video game engines that apply the video essay format to machinima. This program, which debuted in 2019, returns to Milan with four original contributions made by four international artists, on themes ranging from filter bubbles to virtual economies, from gender representation in gaming to the ideology of nationalism.
GAME VIDEO ESSAY B propone una selezione di documentari realizzati attraverso videogiochi che applicano al machinima il formato del video essay. La formula, già sperimentata nel 2019, ritorna con quattro contributi originali realizzati da altrettante artiste internazionali, su temi che spaziano dalle filter bubbles alle economie virtuali, dalla rappresentazione di gender nei videogiochi all’ideologia del nazionalismo.
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LOCATION/TIMES
Friday March 13 2020/Venerdì 13 marzo 2020
Contemporary Exhibition Hall (IULM OPEN SPACE)
09:00 - 19:00 Free Entry
LINE-UP/PROGRAMMA
Elaine Hoey, Animated Positions
machinima/digital video, color, sound, 23’ 39”, 2019. United Kingdom.
machinima/digital video, color, sound, 13’ 40”, 2019. United States of America.
Georgie Roxby Smith, AIN'T FREE
machinima/digital video, color, sound, 25’ 08”, 2019. Germany.
Letta Shtohryn, Algorithmic Oracle
machinima/digital video, color, sound, single channel composite, 8’ 12”, 2019. Ukraine.
