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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: GAMES AS ART FESTIVAL 2026 (DEADLINE, JULY 1 2026) gamescenes.org/call-for-submi…

"Perhaps what was particular to Magic Circles is that we completely circumvented the middle ground of a conventional exhibition of art-as-object." (Gabriel Menotti) milanmachinimafestival.org/vral-screening

"The community around machinima is precious and needs to be protected at all costs." (Total Refusal) milanmachinimafestival.org/blog/2026/5/10…

RESET is the kind of video game magazine the US cannot produce gamescenes.org/magazine-reset…

BOOK: ANGELO CARERI’S GRAND THEFT AUTO CRIME ET ARCHITECTURE (2026) gamescenes.org/angelo-careris…

"One just has to look at their streak of bad decisions to realize that tech companies and governments don’t fully know what they are doing." (Gabriel Menotti) milanmachinimafestival.org/vral-screening

"he universe moves towards entropy. Everything that begins will eventually end." (Gabriel Menotti) milanmachinimafestival.org/vral-screening

"In my experience, meeting people in a virtual world / environment is always less taxing than any videoconference." (Gabriel Menotti) milanmachinimafestival.org/vral-screening

"The “artwork” itself is absent." (Gabriel Menotti) milanmachinimafestival.org/vral-screening

"There are no virtual worlds “themselves”, there are all these components coming together and falling apart: the tech and the people, obviously, but also the systems of representation and discourse" (Gabriel Menotti) milanmachinimafestival.org/vral-screening

"Counterpublics, I guess? The most compelling examples brush the religious, the erotic, the carnivalesque. Catholic masses on Roblox, furries and waifus in VRChat." (Gabriele Menotti) milanmachinimafestival.org/vral-screening

"Magic Circles was an attempt to look past the technohype cycle and point to the kinds of practice that have always taken place in virtual worlds, regardless of buzz or institutional care." (Gabriel Menotti) milanmachinimafestival.org/vral-screening

Kieran Nolan reinvents Italian Brain Rot vimeo.com/1188480625

Another brilliant resource re: in-game photography: "Behind the Lens: Defining Virtual Photography through Community Interviews", a new paper by Thomas Spies and Alex Urban gamestudies.org/2602/articles/…

POWERPOINTLESS? 2GIRLS1COMP’S NEW MOD, POWERPOINT FOR GTA V, REDEFINES BUREAUCRACY PORN gamescenes.org/powerpointless…

EVENT: JORDY VEENSTRA’S LIVE MACHINIMA PRODUCTION IN GRAND THEFT AUTO V (APRIL 28–29 2026, ONLINE) gamescenes.org/event-jordy-ve…

Even meatware museum guides are being replaced by robots - and that's happening in Italy, of all places euronews.com/video/2026/04/…

Joey Toro's fascinating micro-machinima works gamescenes.org/game-art-joey-…

EVENT: 0-99. THE DESIGN OF PLAY (APRIL 10–MAY 10 2026, MILAN) gamescenes.org/0-99-the-desig…

Adrien Cornelissen has written a comprehensive and detailed overview of in-game photography for HACnumedia in both English and French. Check it out: hacnumedia.org/en/in-game-pho…