Game Engine Culture: Is This Real? Exhibition at FMAV Modena
The group exhibition 'Is This Real? L’arte nell’epoca della Game Engine Culture' at FMAV – Fondazione Modena Arti Visive in Modena, Italy, curated by Valentino Catricalà, explores how game engines have evolved from gaming tools to pervasive mediators of contemporary visual culture. The show features works by artists born between the 1980s and 1990s, including Mishka Henner, Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Oliver Laric, Federica Di Pietrantonio, Quayola, Donato Piccolo, DIS, and Auriea Harvey. Quayola's 'Promenade' uses drone footage over Swiss forests to create machine vision landscapes, while Jakob Kudsk Steensen's VR experience reveals microbial life. Donato Piccolo's 'Video Machine Mobile' is a robotic sculpture with a 1970s Mivar TV that interacts autonomously. The exhibition addresses themes of artificial identity, post-anthropocentrism, and the Anthropocene. It runs at FMAV's MODAL Gallery in Modena.
Key facts
- Exhibition 'Is This Real? L’arte nell’epoca della Game Engine Culture' at FMAV – Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena.
- Curated by Valentino Catricalà, director of MODAL Gallery at SODA – School Of Digital Arts, Manchester.
- Features artists: Mishka Henner, Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Oliver Laric, Federica Di Pietrantonio, Quayola, Donato Piccolo, DIS, Auriea Harvey.
- Quayola's 'Promenade' is a drone film over forests of Vallée de Joux, Switzerland, exploring machine vision.
- Jakob Kudsk Steensen presents a VR experience on microbial life and post-anthropocentrism.
- Donato Piccolo's 'Video Machine Mobile' is a robotic sculpture with a 1970s Mivar TV and infrared cameras.
- The exhibition examines game engine culture as a paradigm shift in image production and perception.
- Works span sound art, robotics, machine learning, and virtual reality.
Entities
Artists
- Mishka Henner
- Joshua Citarella
- Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
- Jakob Kudsk Steensen
- Oliver Laric
- Federica Di Pietrantonio
- Quayola
- Donato Piccolo
- DIS
- Auriea Harvey
- Valentino Catricalà
Institutions
- FMAV – Fondazione Modena Arti Visive
- MODAL Gallery
- SODA – School Of Digital Arts
- Artribune
Locations
- Modena
- Italy
- Manchester
- United Kingdom
- Vallée de Joux
- Switzerland