“jonCates | Jake Elliott | Tamas Kamenczy

Artgames LAN Party

Synopsis
Like any medium that has achieved a critical popular mass, strange and intoxicating activity in video games is happening at the margins, between the cracks and out in the shed. These are the games that make us question “is this really a game?” and “who would do this?” and “why?”… From zero-button games like Cory Arcangel’s “Super Mario Clouds” to existentialist platformers like Cactus’ “Psychosomnium,” we’ll share, discuss, play and ultimately throw down tournament style to establish artgamer supremacy in the first ever Artgames LAN Party, a titanic clash of sensitivities & aesthetics sure to shake loose the stars from our crude, pixelated skybox.

Bio
Jake Elliott, Tamas Kemenczy and jonCates are artists from Chicago who create and teach Art Games and Indie Games. Together they have created Art Games which have been exhibited internationally in Art contexts. Individually and together they have and are developing Indie Games that are widely reviewed and played. They have also participated in the last several Notacon events as the “critical artware” demo crew." - NOTACON 2011

ART GAMES LAN PARTY

01 of our ART GAMES LAN PARTY INSPIRATIONS, MARY FLANAGAN!


EVERY DAY THE SAME DREAM IS WIN

YOU HAVE TO BURN THE ROPE IS WIN

SLEEP IS DEATH IS WIN

GRAVEYARD IS WIN

VITO ACCONCI IS WIN

SYOBON ACTION IS WIN

RETROYOU RC FUCK THE GRAVITY CODE IS WIN

FRIENDLY FIRE IS WIN



Tamas authored this sick system for the display of our World's first ever Artgames LAN Party tournement style battle brackets!




&& sum moar pix are up on Flickr...

01 of our ART GAMES LAN PARTY INSPIRATIONS, THE GHOST OF ANDY WARHOL!

L4 | Sat Apr 16 13:59:25 2011 (973 ms) | general | New game starting up
L4 | Sat Apr 16 13:59:26 2011 (18 ms) | general | Screen dimensions for fullscreen mode: 640x480

L4 | Sat Apr 16 13:59:26 2011 (18 ms) | general | Checking if requested video mode (640x480) is available
L4 | Sat Apr 16 13:59:26 2011 (18 ms) | general | All resolutions available
L1 | Sat Apr 16 13:59:26 2011 (215 ms) | general | CRITICAL ERROR: could not read TGA file font_8_16.tga, wrong format?
L4 | Sat Apr 16 13:59:26 2011 (239 ms) | general | Height in grid per timbre = 16

L4 | Sat Apr 16 13:59:26 2011 (251 ms) | general | Max note length in song = 3

L4 | Sat Apr 16 13:59:54 2011 (500 ms) | general | exiting

L4 | Sat Apr 16 14:00:11 2011 (997 ms) | general | New game starting up
L4 | Sat Apr 16 14:00:11 2011 (997 ms) | general | Screen dimensions for fullscreen mode: 640x480

L4 | Sat Apr 16 14:00:11 2011 (997 ms) | general | Checking if requested video mode (640x480) is available
L4 | Sat Apr 16 14:00:11 2011 (997 ms) | general | All resolutions available
L1 | Sat Apr 16 14:00:12 2011 (80 ms) | general | CRITICAL ERROR: could not read TGA file font_8_16.tga, wrong format?
L4 | Sat Apr 16 14:00:12 2011 (105 ms) | general | Height in grid per timbre = 16

L4 | Sat Apr 16 14:00:12 2011 (117 ms) | general | Max note length in song = 3

L4 | Sat Apr 16 14:02:06 2011 (822 ms) | general | exiting

NOTACON CONFERENCE
April 16 2010; Cleveland, OH, US
CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE @ NOTACON 2011!

We (jonCates and Jake Elliott) organized an international CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY @ BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010!


We chose 115 WINNERS in the international CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY, selecting all by hand && informing all in a spam-style personal email in which we disclosed their inclusion in this event. We then converted our hotel room into a CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY FESTIVAL in&&of itself, hacking/cracking open a backdoor within/into BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010!

Mark Beasley made this awesum glitchscene style splashtro for the criticalartware www!



Nick Briz made a .doc[umentary] about our Critical Glitch Artware Category!



Rosa Menkman wrote about our CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY in her "Entropic elasticity: Critical Glitch Artware & the demoscene" essay for Furtherfield!




&& sum moar pix are up on Flickr...

Jake Elliott announces 3 of the 115 WINNERS of our international CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY!



DIE COMPUTER (James Connolly && Eric Pellegrino) perform in the CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010:



Jon Satrom performs in the CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010:



Our Critical Glitch Artware www flier:

CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY
at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010!

The criticalartware crew invites you to participate in the

CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010!

Hosting the ARTWARE CATEGORY at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010, we invite submissions of Critical Glitch Artware to be exhibited and experienced in the context of the largest running North American demoparty! The ARTWARE CATEGORY will feature experimental works of Noise && New Media Art; Realtime Audio-Video Performances; Art Mods and Art Games as well as a Glitch Art screening program curated by Nick Briz!

The CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY opens on Friday April 16th. Entries to the CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY should be sent to criticalartware by

DEADLINE: Tuesday April 13th 2010.

CONTACT us to SUBMIT your PROJECTS to the
CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY:

criticalartware AT gmail DOT com

ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS

The criticalartware crew won first place in the 'Artware' category at BLOCKPARTY 2008 and revealed their secret source codes at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2009. BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010 mark the first public opening of the ARTWARE CATEGORY as organized by criticalartware. The criticalartware crew has participated in and organized Artware events internationally in Chicago, Mexico City, Helsinki, San Francisco, Vienna, Bejing and Aarhus:

http://criticalartware.net

The criticalartware crew is currently constituted by jonCates, Jake Elliott, Tamas Kemenczy and Mark Beasley.

Nick Briz curates Glitch Art and exhibits his own work internationally at festivals such as the Images Festival in Toronto, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, the FILE Media Arts Festival in Rio, Brazil and the Sidney Underground Film Festival:

http://www.nickbriz.com

ABOUT THE EVENT

Blockparty is the largest running North American demoparty. Founded in 2007 by Jason Scott and Christian "RaD Man" Wirth, it has partnered with Notacon in Cleveland, Ohio:

http://www.demoparty.us

Notacon (pronounced "not-a-con") is an art and technology conference which takes place annually in Cleveland, Ohio:

http://www.notacon.org

* btw, the webflier above for the CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY was made possible in part by the Satromizer by Ben Syverson. Jon Satrom (on whom the Satromizer is based) + Ben Syverson (the artware developer who created the Satromizer) are founding members of previous versions of criticalartware.

...our emails to the WINNERS! followed this form i.e. our email to JODI.ORG:

On 15 Apr 2010, at 08:05, jonCates wrote:

We are pleased to congratulate and inform you of the exclusive result of the CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010, your project: "All Wrongs Reversed ©1982" has WON in the CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010!!!

All participants were selected by the international criticalartware crew.

Please we shall relaunch our website immediately we finish fixing some security issues to erase winner information vulnerabilities. You will be notified.

Please you are requested to come virtually to our CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY event which will be streamed live in realtime on glitch.fm on Friday April 16th:

http://glitch.fm

Congratulations once more from our crew and thank you for being part of our international CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE program!!!

Best wishes,

jonCates & Jake Elliott
CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY
http://criticalartware.net

BLOCKPARTY
http://www.demoparty.us

Notacon
http://www.notacon.org

criticalartware is
an artware demo crew
from chicago.

• the demo wizard (video)
• hull
• chassis
  
  

ALSO @ NOTACON THAT YEAR:
krüe won 1RST place in teh Old School Demo compo of BLOCKPARTY at NOTACON wit his demo for the NTSC ColecoVision! as Jason Scott wwwrote: "krüe's Waterline was created (and demonstrated) on a vintage Colecovision system. It appears this is the first Colecovision demo in a demoparty competition." SO RAD! && krüe even gave us (criticalartware) sum shouts outs in his acceptance speach for contributing sum inspirations to his project!
MUCH RESPEXXX krüe !!!