ATHENS DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL: 10 July – 10 September 2020 ONLINE

ADAF is an audiovisual event constantly evolving along with the new creative trends and breakthroughs within the digital arts, without loosing the core vision of its foundation days.

Every year the organisers finetune their artistic program through their open call for audiovisual artists, to keep themselves up to date with the ever-evolving new media art landscape.

From the initial focus on video art, installations and live performances they have been widening their program up to include Virtual Reality experiences (VR), Web Art, Video Games and more.

The Athens Digital Arts Festival has been founded in 2005 and it is the pioneer longest living institution in Greece dedicated to audiovisual culture and digital arts. This year, as other audiovisual events, ADAF is responding to the Covid19 crisis with resilience and creativity.

Their 16th edition ADAF ONLINE| TECHNOTRIBALISM will be accessible to everyone through the internet. More than 5,500 audiovisual art proposals from 100 countries around the world are the source for the ADAF 2020 program selection.

The 2020 year theme reflects upon our primitive status in the foundations of the new hyper-informational world, where the data-flux is absorbing the entire existence reaching the status of God.

Is technology serving us or we are serving the data-totem by providing our more sensible information, giving up our privacy for a greater good?

Algorithms, already present everywhere in the digital realm, are reading us better than ourselves, better than our friends and siblings and in the name of  optimization of our virtual experience, we are gradually letting them make decisions for us, filter our perceptions predict our behavior, our bio metrics, our emotions.

All manifestations of culture can now be experienced on a digitized basis, translated to a language (code, DNA) and stored for everyone who possess it to experience regardless the circumstances. Markets and Money are transfiguring into intangible algorithmic byproducts. Everything to serve the information flow.

Close your eyes and connect to your data-doppelganger your mirrored algorithmic self to your digital footprint. You are part of techno-tribalism, you are part of ADAF 2020.

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Ludotech’ Art : une chaîne Youtube et des formations pour les game artists débutants

Ludovic Chatin nous présente Ludotech’ Art, sa chaîne Youtube autour du jeu vidéo et plus précisément du métier de game artist. Il y alterne tutoriels (sur les bases de Maya principalement) et vidéos plus théoriques qui pourront par exemple aborder le choix des logiciels, l’intérêt du portfolio, la nécessité ou non de savoir programmer pour être artiste ou encore l’état du secteur.

Vous l’aurez compris : ce sont essentiellement les artistes débutants qui sont ciblés ici, comme l’exprime le slogan de la chaîne (« Devenez graphiste pour le jeu vidéo »). D’où une approche mêlant théorie, vulgarisation des bases, explication du vocabulaire et pratique.

Outre le contenu de la chaîne (dont vous découvrirez une sélection ci-dessous), l’auteur propose aussi via son site une formation Maya d’un peu moins de 6h, destinée aux personnes débutantes et proposée pour 20€ environ jusqu’au 7 juin. Il nous précise que d’autres formations sont prévues à termes (outils Allegorithmic/Adobe, ZBrush, moteurs de jeux). De même, la chaîne Youtube va se diversifier, même si elle est pour l’heure très axée sur Maya.

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Daily Magic Productions Announces Official Trailer & Release Date for the Witching Tower VR

Press Release – SEATTLE, September 5, 2018 — Studio-developer Daily Magic Productions presents the official trailer — https://youtu.be/gFnU4Z0ng48 and announced the release date of the Witching Tower, a VR Action-adventure game: October 4, 2018. The game will be available on Steam, Oculus Store, and HTC VIVEPORT. Technical features Players will be able to use two systems of movement: teleportation and locomotion. […]

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Pavel Novák: 8 bit invader projection mapping

’8-bit invaders’ projection mapping by pavel novák ‘8-bit invader’ is a work of projection mapping created by czech designer pavel novák for the 5th anniversary of tomas bata university’s department of visual arts in zlín, czech republic. The display playfully conflates the real and virtual worlds, first using the edifice simply as a surface onto which novák’s own fictional […]

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Playsnak Announces New VR FPS – Wanted Killer VR

  BERLIN – 24 April, 2018 – Get ready for fast-paced action and innovative bullet-time shooting in Wanted Killer VR—a stylized high-octane FPS coming to Steam Early Access in May 2018. Created by Berlin-based developer Playsnak, Wanted Killer VR casts you as a member of the clandestine WK4 group – an elite team of agents sent in to protect the […]

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Unity 2018.1 – New Features

Unity 2018.1 marks the start of a new cycle that introduces a major upgrade to our core technology, which gives artists, developers and engineers the power to express their talents and collaborate more efficiently to make their AAA dreams a reality. Let’s start with a few of the highlights, and then you can dig into the […]

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