Issue 28 11.20.13
Painting Data: When Art Goes Virtual
Oberon Onmura If we consider an artist as fundamentally an agent of creation, the question then arises “creation of what?” And when the artist is creating within a virtual environment, that “what” begs additional discussion. In my view, an artist takes what is available from the surrounding environment, manipulates it physically or conceptually, and presents the result to […]
The Future of Gaming
The following short essays are ruminations on the future of gaming by various members of the past and present CADRE community. They were initially written for the November 2011 issue of Turkish Airlines Skylife Magazine. The Future of Gaming by Jenene Castle Emergent gaming trends increasingly connect virtual in-game space with “ordinary” or geophysical life […]
Sources of Inspiration
By John Skaggs I don’t always really know where the inspiration for my artwork comes from. The Latin word musa[1], “source of inspiration,” comes closest to describing the entity or entities that this form of animation, of which I can’t quite put my finger on, originates from. The inspiration is partially from me (prior experiences, […]
PROCESS AS PASTIME
by Robert Yang “Process” is a heavy word in video game design. It refers to procedurality, the ways in which a computer manipulates or generates data. It also refers to proceduralism, the idea that a video game is a formal system of rules and interactions, not a narrative nor a simple toy. Most often, it […]
Mi$hap
Hello, My name is John-Paul Real. And I am what some consider an artist. I have been drawn to art, and the artist lifestyle ever since I can remember, honestly. I was about 4 years old. I remember learning how to read from Dr. Seuss’s “Cat in the Hat”, and being enthralled with the sheer […]
A Human’s Job
By Tyson Frederick It is a human’s job to be an artist. It is the artist’s job to think about an idea, to think about the self, to think about consciousness. When I think of process, it is the state or mode of being. There is a harmonic connection of the artist between material, idea, and […]