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EVENT: MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL (MARCH 15-21 2021)

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MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL MMXXI

FROM VIDEO GAMES TO VIDEO ART

March 15-21 2021/15-21 Marzo 2021

Online event/evento online

An official event of the Milan Digital Week, the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL showcases audiovisual non-interactive works produced with video games otherwise known as machinima. This year, the retrospective will take place exclusively online due to the ongoing pandemic. The program feature six sections: IN FOCUS, GAME VIDEO ESSAY, GRAND THEFT CINEMA, [CODE] CONFINEMENT, GLITCH 'N SCAPES, and SPECIAL SCREENING. Selected artists include Iono Allen, Adonis Archontides, Nilson Carroll, Nick Crockett, Luca Giacomelli, Gina Hara, Kamilia Kard, Chris Kerich, Felix Klee, Eddie Lohmeyer, Luca Miranda, Alessandra Porcu, Riccardo Retez, Alessandro Tranchini, Lena Windisch, XUE Youge (薛 又 戈), and HU Yu (胡 煜).

The main theme of the MMXXI edition, From Video Games to Video Art, alludes to the variety of artistic manipulations of video games and their evolution into game videos. The authors deconstruct digital environments by subverting and reinterpreting their constitutive codes. From a matrix of postmodern cinematic citations embedded in Grand Theft Auto V to the notion of “limbo” as an existential condition, the selected machinima critically examine the logic, politics, and ideologies of the contemporary moment, triggering unexpected epistemological short circuits.

As in previous years, a Critics’ Choice Award will be awarded to the most significant machinima by an international jury composed of critics, curators, and academics: Valentino Catricalà (Artistic Director of the Media Art Festival in Rome), Marco De Mutiis (Digital curator of the Fotomuseum Winterthur), Stefano Locati (member of the Scientific Committee of the Ca 'Foscari Short Film Festival of Venice and Co-director of the Asian Film Festival of Bologna), Henry Lowood (Curator for the Germanic Collections and the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University), and Jenna NG (Professor of Film and Interactive Media at the University of York).

Curated by Matteo Bittanti with Gemma Fantacci, Luca Miranda, and Riccardo Retez, the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL 2021 is an official event of Milano Digital Week organized in collaboration with GAMESCENES. Art in the age of video games and the M.A. in Game Design at IULM University. A follow-up to the 2016 exhibition GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY, the MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL brings to Milan idiosyncratic video works that lie at the intersection of video art, cinema, streaming, and digital games.

All the works will be accessible for free on the Festival’s website from 15 to 21 March 2021.

Evento ufficiale della Milano Digital Week, il MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL presenta al pubblico opere audiovisive prodotte con i videogiochi altrimenti note come machinima. La rassegna si svolgerà esclusivamente online a causa del perdurare dell’emergenza sanitaria. Il programma si articola in sei sezioni: IN FOCUS, GAME VIDEO ESSAY, GRAND THEFT CINEMA, [CODE] CONFINEMENT, GLITCH ’N SCAPES e SPECIAL SCREENING. Gli artisti coinvolti includono Iono Allen, Adonis Archontides, Nilson Carroll, Nick Crockett, Luca Giacomelli, Gina Hara, Kamilia Kard, Chris Kerich, Felix Klee, Eddie Lohmeyer, Luca Miranda, Alessandra Porcu, Riccardo Retez, Alessandro Tranchini, Lena Windisch, XUE Youge (薛又戈) e HU Yu (胡煜). La maggior parte delle opere presentate sono inedite in Italia.

Il tema dell’edizione MMXXI, From Video Games to Video Art, allude alla vasta gamma di manipolazioni in chiave artistica del videogioco e alla sua evoluzione in gioco video. Gli autori decostruiscono i mondi digitali scardinandone e reinterpretandone i codici costitutivi. Dalla miscellanea di citazioni di matrice cinematografica della società iperrealistica di Grand Theft Auto V al concetto di “limbo” come espressione esistenziale, i machinima selezionati esaminano criticamente le logiche, le politiche e le ideologie del contemporaneo, innescando inaspettati cortocircuiti epistemologici. 

Come nelle precedenti edizioni, anche quest’anno verrà assegnato un riconoscimento da una giuria internazionale composta da critici, curatori e accademici: Valentino Catricalà (Direttore artistico del Media Art Festival di Roma), Marco De Mutiis (Digital curator del Fotomuseum Winterthur), Stefano Locati (membro del Comitato scientifico del Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival di Venezia e Co-direttore dell’Asian Film Festival di Bologna), Henry Lowood (Curatore per la Germanic Collections e l’History of Science and Technology Collections all’Università di Stanford in California) e Jenna NG (Professore di cinema e media interattivi all'Università di York).

Curato da Matteo Bittanti in collaborazione con Gemma Fantacci, Luca Miranda e Riccardo Retez, il MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL 2021 è un evento ufficiale della Milano Digital Week realizzato inseieme a GAMESCENES. Art in the age of video games e al Master of Arts in Game Design dell’Università IULM. Una prosecuzione della mostra GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY (2016), il festival porta a Milano produzioni idiosincratiche che si collocano all’intersezione tra video arte, cinema, streaming e videogiochi.

Tutte le opere saranno accessibili gratuitamente sul sito del festival dal 15 al 21 marzo 2021.