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A List of Individual-Based Models

2013-02-13T06:58:00.003-08:00

Individual-Based Models an annotated list of links by Craig Reynolds

Dictionary of Digital Creation

2013-02-13T04:57:00.001-08:00

by Pierre Berger. Link

Generative Art

2013-02-11T02:27:00.001-08:00

A list of Generative art by Philipe Galanter. Link http://www.philipgalanter.com/generative_art/bibliography.html Algo good to use as a reference is the paper from Carvalhais on the Generative Art conference (which year?). This work list about 50 works.

Procedural AI for games

2012-10-23T05:06:00.000-07:00

Massive: GameMiddleware: Crowd wikipedia Natural motion

Art in Second Life

2012-08-07T02:57:00.001-07:00

The Sixth Finger Draft VW Art Taxonomy – From LinkedIn Group Virtual Worlds Friday, July 29, 2011 There are as many theories of virtual world arts as their are practitioners! A good start would be an academic taxonomy of what the main threads of art practice existing in virtual space. I have been working on a rationale since 2006. One caveat is that this taxonomy is just the result of my research and NOT intended to be the last word on anything, rather a jumping off point for conversation and further learning.

Remediators: Many artists (the vast majority) strive to recreate physical world art objects and display them in spaces that look like galleries in Second Life. These might be termed “Remediators”, or artists who use SL in a way that ignores the difference in condition between physical space and virtual space. Some people call this “FLart” (flat or first life art) See almost any gallery in SL.

Telematic Performance: Some artists contend that SL is an inherently performative based medium, that everything we do with the mask of an avatar is performance. These artists tend to come from the Dada, Situationist or Theater genres and overlap with the Contemporary Art world. See ZEROG SkyDance, Second Front, Gazira Babeli, Saveme Oh

Platformists: Artists who use virtual worlds to create derivative projects like Machinima, music or renderings intended for display and sharing in the material space. SL is a prototyping engine, essentially a tool. See myriad machinimatographers, Avatar Metaverse Orchestra

Mixed-realty: Artists who strive to create a bridge between material space and virtual space in some way and have the work informed by conditions of both spaces. This has in the past involved bio-feedback into SL and http to LSL and LSL to http control. This also tends to be performative. Micha Cardenas, Lizsolo Matilda

Hyperformalists: Artists focused on conditions native to the virtual space who do not attempt to recreate modes existing in material space, rather explore possibilities inherent to the virtual medium and produce artworks “native” to the phenomenology of the virtual space. See Dancoyote Antonelli, Selavy Oh, Oberon Onmura, Werner Kurosawa

Narrative Realist and Fantasy These SL practitioners use SL tools to create narrative environments that are sometimes guided experiences and sometimes heuristic. See Dekka Raymaker, Bryn Oh

On Space and Place: “Simulation of space becomes a real place when we experience it together.” Source: http://www.dancoyote.com/

ARTISTS

DanCoyote Antonelli (aka David "DC" Spensley). An alumnus of the San Francisco Art Institute and current graduate student at Silicon Valley's CADRE Laboratory, DC Spensley is Co-founder of quasi art movements like The Gomi School and Critical Mass and Hyperformalism. DC's art career covers some thirty-years. He is a writer, director, cinematographer, composer, performance artist, and sculptor and most recently has appeared as the avatar DanCoyote Antonelli in the virtual reality simulation Second Life. Spensley has exhibited internationally at venues like Ars Electronica at Linz Austria, ZeroOne/ISEA conference at the San Jose Museum of Art, the Bumbershoots Festival under the auspices of Frye Art Museum of Seattle, and the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival. DanCoyote (a pun on Cervante's Don Quixote) exhibits art based on situated technology and reactive architecture. He is responsible for the only zero gravity dance troupe. Spensley/DanCoyote's ZeroG SkyDancers perform in Second Life and are often projected into real world venues, spanning the divide between continuums. The SkyDancers perform a cross between water ballet and aerial acrobatics and have been said to invoke a sense of wonder and pageant similar to Cirque du Soleil. Further info about Spensley’s work - http://www.dancoyote.com

Oberon Onmura. Oberon has been making art in Second Life for almost two years. In that time, his unique approach to using opposing forces on physical objects has attracted the attention of blog sites, SL galleries and publications. His recent Beacon, a 100-meter tower that constructs and then destroys itself, was selected for inclusion in a national exhibition of virtual and corporeal art - the @ exhibition - in association with the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the College Art Association conference in Los Angeles, California (February, 2009). He was also recently selected as one of 12 artists to collaborate in Art Khaos, an international month-long sculptural performance piece organized by the PiRats Arts Network in Paris. Oberon is a frequent contributor to the Brooklyn is Watching project in association with Jack the Pelican Presents in Williamsburg. His current sim-sized project, The Tunguska Event, can be seen at the Project Z Gallery on the Cetus sim. Images – http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberon_onmura

Juria Yoshikawa (aka Lance Shields). After two decades of creative pursuits - ranging from conceptual art, installation, poetry, performance, computer art, animation, photography and digital design - Juria Yoshikawa arrived in Second Life (SL) in the winter of 2007 looking for a new artistic spark. Rather than bringing in real life artwork, Juria is compelled to use mainly the elements that make up SL itself. A typical Juria Yoshikawa virtual artwork mixes kinetic objects, animated texture, ambient noise, and AV animations. She inevitably chooses scales larger than conventional gallery work because she is interested in people experiencing the work in a physical way - flying through them, riding on them and socializing within the art. To Juria virtual art is about freeing oneself up to create in ways she finds impossible in real life. Juria Yoshikawa is Lance Shields in real life and is a Tokyo based multimedia artist and creative director. He has spent many years making digital art, installation art and performance. Sculpture and installation are where he started his creative career but he became progressively more involved in the digital and interactive. Lance says “I see SL as a return back to my artistic roots yet at the same time it combines my newer interests in the phenomenology in the virtual world or as phenomenology is defined as the reflective study of the essence of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view”. In his commercial life, Lance is a social media strategist at a global company that embraces social networking, blogging and Second Life.

Source: http://juriayoshikawa.blogspot.com

Gazira Babeli has been living and working as an artist, performer and film-maker in Second Life since spring 2006. In September 2006 she published records of a number of "non authorized performances" on the web, capturing the attention of art critics and artists. Artists above all. She then became part of Second Front, a new international group of artists/performers dedicated to the formal, aesthetic, cultural and social exploration of a reality dubbed "virtual". She was involved in the launch of the first native artistic community in Second Life: Odyssey. In April 2007, after filming the movie/performance Gaz of The Desert, she staged an exhibition entitled [Collateral Damage]. The show, which gathered a year of work and experiences, was visited by over one thousand 'real' people. Gazira Babeli has taken part in various festivals and events outside Second Life, including: Peam2006 (Pescara), DEAF07 (Rotterdam), Fabio Paris Art Gallery (Brescia and art fairs), iMAL (Brussels), PERFORMA 07 NYC (with Second Front). Her work has attracted the attention of publications such as El Pais, La Stampa, Liberazione, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Exibart, Kunstzeitung, CIAC, Flash Art, eXtrart and FMR White Edition. Most of Gazira Babeli's works are currently archived in the Locusolus region of Second Life. Source: http://gazirababeli.com/GAZ.php

Game Art

2012-07-28T16:02:00.003-07:00

A sample list of game art

Pac Mondrian

Play Pac Man in the setting of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie-painting. The game play is like in the classic game Pac Man. Made by Canadian Prize Budget for Boys. Mondrian has been used in before in digital arts - check out John F. Simon Jr's Complex City. Link

Amanita: Samorost

Puzzle game. Samorost is an amazing universe. The main character goes through several levels with quirky details. You are actually playing the game, but at a very slow pace as it takes a long time to figure out what to do.

Link

Amanita: Samorost 2

The second Samorost game. Even better than the first one and this time with cheat codes! Link

September 12

September 12 is a political game - the title obviously referring to the day after Sep 11. In the game you shoot terrorist. It looks like your are aiming precise, but once the bomb hits, the terrorist is gone. Instead you hit civilians, whom later turn into terrorist. The meaning is quite easy to decipher ...

Authored by: Gonzalo Frasca

Trigger Happy

Trigger Happy is based on the classic game Space Invaders. However, what you shoot are text pieces about gaming.

Authored by: Thompson and Craighead

The Intruder

In The Intruder a series of Classic games such as pong are used as device to access Jorge Luis Borges short story. Authored by Natalie Bookchin's

Left to my own devices

Left to my own devices The codes of digital games are used to explore a narrative of loss and awkward renewal. The game’s main character navigates a space of playful interaction and fragmented animation. Game segments take inspiration from the shifting emotional states associated with loss. The character’s backstory is gradually revealed through game play.

Authored by: Geoffrey Thomas: Left to my own Devices

Orisinal

Orisinal is a number of small games with artistic touch. Each one has its own charm.

Authored by Ferry Halim

Nerve Game

In the Nerve Game the player has to answer a lot of daily life questions while the level of stress and depression is increasing. You will always win.

Authored by: Vanessa Somerwine

Average Shoveler

Commissioned by Rhizome Carlo Zanni's Average Shoveler is not a game in the sense that it has user interaction. It does, however, lend its aesthetics from the 80's game Leisure Suit Larry. The piece functions in real time as the snow flakes contains news from the internet. From time to time there is also a big snowfall containing pics.

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Hacking or using established engines

Unreal Art

Art made using theUnreal engine. Mealey lets a number of virtual players play the game for a half hour and then uses the data from the games to produce complex drawings. Authored by Alison Mealey

Velvet Strike

Velvet Strike is a so-called 'patch' that you can add to you own game. In this case you can add non-military graffiti to the shooter gamer Counter Strike. The site tells you how to install the patch and allows you to add your own graffiti.

Authored by Anne-Marie Schleiner/ Brody Condon/ Joan Leandre et al.

Super Mario Clouds

Super Mario Clouds is a hack of an old Super Mario game. In the hacked version, only the clouds are left - not even super Mario is there!

authored by Cory Arcangel

SOD

JoDi's SOD is a modification of the game Wolfenstein. You can actually attempt to play the game, but everything is scrampled - in the way that has become typical for JoDi. Authored by art collective JoDI

The ASCII Unreal

As a reaction to the photo-like 3D worlds, Vuk Cosic replaced all surfaces in letters from the Cyrillic alphabet. Some will also remember the the green/black color from the old computers.

Distellamap

Distellamap is using the code of old game cartridges. He is 'translating' the code into a graphical pictures. Everytime the code has a 'go to' the drawing has a curve. The one showed to the left is from Pac Man. This is not a game at all, but clearly using the code from games in the artistic practice.

Link authored by Ben Fry

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List of 12 more artists who use video games as their medium

Tale of tales

still image from Endless Forest a contemplative experiece

Ian Bogost

imony

a medieval church politics-themed game about earning your station among a community. Commissioned by the

Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville

for its Project Atrium site-specific gallery series

Erik Svedäng

Image from Blueberry garden

Igloo

Snow quake offers game-engine-powered virtual environments where ultra-detailed landscapes are mixed with motion-captured dance.

Mark Essen

Low fi video games

Feng Mengbo

Mark Johns

Daniel Benmergui

Image from I wish I was the moon

Jason Rohrer

designs a game meant to be played 2,000 years from now, hides it in desert
Passage, The Castle Doctrine and Diamond Trust of London

Steph Thirion

Jonatan ‘Cactus’ Söderström

Image from Dungeon:"More of a social experiment than a game. Me and Arthur Lee decided to make a game where players would have experiences that differed from each other's and hopefully generate a discussion about various parts of the game."

Greg Wohlwend

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Continuing this list these are women game artists:

Anna Anthropy
Myfanwy Ashmore
Natalie Bookchin (The Intruder)
Mary Flanagan
Auriea Harvey (Tale of Tales)
Heather Kelley
Alison Mealey (Unreal Art)
Anne-Marie Schleiner (Velvet-Strike)
VNS Matrix
Brenda Braithwaite
Erin Robinson
Heather Logas
Roberta Williams
Sophie Blakemore

Other interesting sources:

http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/the-video-game-as-art/Content?oid=1566984
http://trigger.artabase.net/ http://www.ludology.org/games/ http://www.gamescenes.org/2009/11/

http://www.artificial.dk/networks.html http://artradarjournal.com/2013/01/08/can-video-games-be-art-can-art-be-a-video-game-5-asian-video-game-artists-to-watch/
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/263815/the-feminine-side-of-game-design-10-female-game-designers/1

2012-06-09T10:58:00.003-07:00

Link com trabalhos em new media http://www.mindatplay.co.uk/byimage.html Blip http://homepage.ntlworld.com/r.stow1/index.htm

Extended reality

2011-05-23T13:57:00.001-07:00

FACT in Liverpool

http://www.fact.co.uk/about/exhibitions/2011/knowledge-lives-everywhere

The V&A's computer art collections

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/v-and-a-computer-art-collections/

http://www.technocultures.org.uk/index.html

Urban Tapestries (Project now finished)

http://urbantapestries.net/

Game in London Underground

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9463441.stm

http://www.chromaroma.com/

Blast Theory - Day of the Figurines

http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_day_of_figurines.html

Blast Theory - Rider Spoke

http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_rider_spoke.html

Blast Theory are quite good as they work with the Mixed Reality Lab part of University of Nottingham so have presented quite alot of papers about their work at various conferences mainly about HCI

http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/research.html

FourSquare

https://foursquare.com/

Living life in augmented reality

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8889490.stm

Art Opportunities and Galleries

2011-03-29T12:01:00.001-07:00

Oportunities link

Galleries link
Calls neme

Blogs tugas

2011-03-03T01:29:00.001-08:00

Portuguese blog on virtual worlds and multiplayers . Ionline

Pandromeda

2011-02-26T03:54:00.001-08:00

Pandromeda From Wiki: Musgrave designed the initial fractal-based programs on which Bryce was based. His work was featured in an article in the January 1996 Scientific American (Playing Slartibartfast with Fractals; January 1996; by Gibbs), about fractal curves. The article described software that he had designed which would generate entire planets at random and allow a user to walk about that world, exploring mountains or forests, etc. The article mentioned that the software would find itself used in a computer game and that the randomly generated landscape would have to be populated with hostile aliens. In fact, the software eventually became a commercial title called MojoWorld.

Earthsim - 3D Universe Browser - Earth Space Tour Screensaver

2011-02-26T03:53:00.001-08:00

EarthSim From their website: "Real-time space views of the Earth, the Solar System and even the nearest stars. We believe its the best looking space exploration program and planet screensaver around, and its free."

Course where xTNZ is referenced

2011-02-26T03:47:00.003-08:00

Wau!! xTNZ is mentioned on these course materials, in some University at the US. After Patrick Frank's publications, this is quite impressive for me. It appears in works dealing with the 4th dimension: http://newmediaabington.pbworks.com/w/page/34342319/ART%20314%20-%204D%20in%203D%20in%202D

Images from Lourenco Marques

2011-02-26T03:45:00.001-08:00

Fotos
Video

Nature Communications: Mathematical Model Could Help Predict and Prevent Future Extinctions

2011-02-26T03:41:00.001-08:00

Paper reporting a study about an interesting theory: that by removing particular species (nodes) in an ecosystem (graph) this action might prevent cascading extinctions. Mathematical Model Could Help Predict and Prevent Future Extinctions

Virtual Worlds and an Origin of Artificial Life on Vimeo - Bruce Damer

2011-02-26T03:40:00.001-08:00

CIG2010 - K - The Day the Game Came Alive: Bruce Damer's talk

www.eco-tools.net: Home Page

2011-02-26T03:38:00.001-08:00

A web-accessible set of tools for performing commonly-needed and useful calculations in ecology and conservation biology. No special software is required, and all algorithms are transparent and based on standard references: http://eco-tools.njit.edu/webMathematica/EcoTools/

New MFA in Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico

2011-02-26T03:37:00.001-08:00

The new MFA program in Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico is an interdisciplinary, research-based program engaging contemporary art practices. Students develop ecological and cultural literacy with a conceptual foundation and a wide range of production skills, including sculpture, social practice, and digital media. Students in Art and Ecology have the opportunity to work on various collaborative and interdisciplinary projects with departments across UNM and on comprehensive thesis projects integrating community and ecological research. Coursework includes the Land Arts of the American West program, a semester-long travel and place-based arts pedagogy.

PARTNERS
Sustainability Studies at UNM
Landscape Architecture at UNM
SEV, Long Term Ecological Research at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge
Centro Artistico y Cultural, El Paso, TX
The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT
Art + Environment Center, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV
The UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC)
Fodder Project: A Collaborative Research Farm
The American Society for Acoustic Ecology

Urban Studies - recostitution of cities

2011-02-26T03:34:00.000-08:00

Today I met Bernard Frisher an expert in 3d reconstructions. Frischer has overseen many significant modeling projects, including "Rome Reborn," the virtual recreation of the entire city of ancient Rome within the Aurelian Walls. Amongst other projects, he is consulting the project of reconstructing Lisbon pre-earthquake from Museu da Cidade.

MIT Press Journals - Artificial Life/Evolutionary Computation

2011-02-26T03:33:00.000-08:00

Artificial Life

Evolutionary Computation

Course on Art and Genetics

2011-02-26T03:31:00.001-08:00

It looks like it might be old: Last update from 2003, but they are around... http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_culture/gc_w01/gc_w01.htm

Fluxus: 3d game Engine

2011-02-26T03:28:00.001-08:00

Fluxus is a 3D game engine for livecoding worlds into existence.

"act of a flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing
stream; a continuous succession of changes"

We spent too long livecoding and forgot to do any releases, so this is
your semi-annual fluxus release fanfare:

Changes:

* Render to texture makes recursive worlds possible
* Freeframe plugins supported
* Windows support
* OpenAL 3D sound playback
* AR/Camera module
* Planetarium/dome projection
* Livecode text effects to confuse your audiences
* Experimental voxel primitive
* Icosphere primitive
* Unicode support in the scratchpad
* Some proper games stuff - frustum culling, scene inspection etc.
* Stereo panning in fluxa.

Get it here:

http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/packages/

Theories of evolution

2011-02-26T03:26:00.001-08:00

In his first Notebook, On the transmutation of species (1837), Charles Darwin drew the first evolutionary tree of life. The current commnly accepted theory of evolution is NeoDarwinist, which combines Darnin’s dangerous idea of Evolution by Natural Selection with genetics. The modern theories of symbiogenesis and punctuated equilibrium challenge this concept.

In 1972, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould published a landmark paper developing this theory and called it punctuated equilibria. Eldredge and Gould proposed that the degree of gradualism commonly attributed to Charles Darwin is virtually nonexistent in the fossil record, and that stasis dominates the history of most fossil species.

When evolution occurs, it is localized in rare, rapid events of branching speciation, called cladogenesis. Cladogenesis is the process by which species split into two distinct species, rather than one species gradually transforming into another. Thus, "punctuated equilibria is a model for discontinuous tempos of change (in) the process of speciation and the deployment of species in geological time."[1]

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), also Lateral gene transfer (LGT), is any process in which an organism incorporates genetic material from another organism without being the offspring of that organism. By contrast, vertical transfer occurs when an organism receives genetic material from its ancestor, e.g. its parent or a species from which it Most thinking in genetics has focused upon vertical transfer, but there is a growing awareness that horizontal gene transfer is a highly significant phenomenon, and amongst single-celled organisms perhaps the dominant form of genetic transfer. Artificial horizontal gene transfer is a form of genetic engineering.

It is often stated that cultural and social evolution occur more in accordance with Lamarckian ideas of inheritance.

Tree models were not only introduced by Darwin to model the evolution of life, they were also introduced by Ernst Haeckel, the first taxonomist, and by August Schleicher, a linguist who modelled the evolution of language.

On Virtual Worlds

2011-02-26T03:23:00.000-08:00

People need a reason to enter a virtual world – an objective, something relevant to them.
This ’sense of purpose’ is what will drive wider adoption of virtual worlds and bridge the gap
between the innovators and early adopters currently inhabiting older virtual worlds to the early majority.
When you think about it, worlds like Second Life are generalist.
People have nothing really in common with each other when they first join.
This is why you find over time that residents gravitate towards people with similar interests,
be it geographical, genre or interest group. Whilst this is great if you want to actually target
early adopters (and many companies do) worlds that offer a dedicated themed or category driven experience
are likely to encourage this wider take-up. (more…)
Interoperability
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/05/mpeg-issues-cal.html
outeroperability
http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?cat=82
Metaverse History
http://www.metaverseroadmap.org/inputs.html#history
23 pagina o futuro
http://metaverseroadmap.org/
http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/

The creatures's paper

2011-02-26T03:21:00.001-08:00

Finally I have found an academic paper on Creatures:(href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/106454699568683)