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As a curator, my goal is to merge political, social and artistic issues around the question of games, which is eminently symbolic and political... and to promote alternative and artistic uses of video games, I’ve organized a number of 8bit music and chip tunes concerts, produced on Gameboys; and, for almost 5 years, I’ve been showing films
designed with video games, still called Machinimas. The point is to prove that it is possible to transform an object of mass consumption into a means of expression.

Texte écrit pour la revue MCD en 2009 : Jeu(x) tu perds gagnes.

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Playmobile a festival dedicated to micromusic, retrogaming, do it yourself and gameart

This week-end, the collective Freesson, organised once again at la Gare in Coustellet, a charming little village from the south of france with a very good organic wine, Playmobile, a micromusic festival featuring installations, performances or videos by artists  like Debeul Alex (big up), Monsieur Moo (big up too!), Dardex Mort2faim, Archeopterix... And with giggs of Meneo Mobile (big up big up!), Jankenpopp and Confipop among many others. It was simply great as the whole event was a...

My link to Emmanuelle

  Emmanuelle Grangier is a french artist who lives in the south of France. Under the direction of Anne-Marie Duguet, she got a PHD in art and sciences of the art, and wrote her thesis about the accident : The bug : an aesthetics of accident. My link to Emmanuelle is fluid and liquid, it began on a beach, then in a bar drinking casher vodka and talking about our slavic soul. I am also playing in many of her videos... In 2002, she directed the first part of the Link tril...

IntoTime by Rafael Rozendaal, 2010

i super like it   rafael rozendaal's new piece intotime is hypnotic chromo therapeutic and hallucinating,   rafael is in a geometric time, colors and shapes create abstractions   before he was more in a funny time, if the neen works of angelo plessas were poetic,   rafael was in the humoristic side a sharp sense of humor like nikola tosic's texts   but in images ...

Book Sprint project : Collaborative Futures!

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Last sunday, Stephen Kovatz posted on Facebook an information about Collaborative Futures, a book written in five days (Jan 18-22, 2010) by seven persons : Mushon Zer-Aviv, Michael Mandiberg, Mike Linksvayer, Marta Peirano, Alan Toner, Aleksandar Erkalovic (programmer) and Adam Hyde (facilitator). This book was writtenduring a Book Sprint in Berlin. A Book Sprint is a concept of Tomas Krag, then followed by Adam Hyde, the founder of Floss Manuals. ( Free manuals fro free soft...

Ludic Interfaces, Amaze, WAVE / WJ-SPOT, Transmediale

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Next week, I will fly to Berlin and stay two weeks to take some time to meet new artists, curators and to see art exhibitions. During the first week, the artist and researcher Mathias Fuchs invited me to the public presentation of Ludic Interfaces on Saturday, 30th Jan 2010 at 11.30 pm to 13.30 pm at HBC Then, I will attend to Amaze a festival dedicated to art, music and games. On feb 4th, I will browse in real time into online content of curators, artists and online creations spec...

About zabarvers

Arvers Isabelle

Isabelle Arvers is a french curator, critic and author, specializing in video and computer games, web animation and digital cinema. She has coordinated ISEA 2000, Paris, and she has curated Video Cuts 2001, Centre Pompidou, Gaming Room Villette Numérique 2002, Paris, Tour of the Web 2003, Centre Pompidou, featuring French and international artists.

In 2004, she has organized a Gameboy music concert and she has curated the wireless art event Wifiledefrance for la Region Ile de France. She was the net.art curator for the 2004 Banana RAM festival, Italy. She curated the exhibit Gametime, Experimedia, Melbourne in October 2004 and la Nuit Numérique for the 2004 Bitfilms Festival, Hambourg, Germany, November 2004.

Last projects: No fun games and the gaming experience, Bergen Norway, 2005; Mal au Pixel, Paris, France, 2006; Articule 3, emerging swiss creation, Annecy, France, 2007; Playing to real, Meudon, France, 2007, Gamerz 04 and Gamerz 05, Aix-en-Provence, 2008 & 2009, Machinima screenings, Gameplay & Mostravideo Brasil, 2009.

She is also performing with WJ-S a device and a software created by Anne Roquigny. She oftens writes for reviews like MCD, ARCADI or for the magazine Amusement. http://www.isabelle-arvers.com


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