Our latest project is a mod for Grand Theft Auto IV that replaces Niko Bellic with performance artist, architect, writer and philosopher Vito Acconci. Grand Theft Vito is a follow-up to Following Bit (no pun intended). The documentation includes six videos of approximately 1 minute and 30 seconds of gameplay footage from Grand Theft Auto IV featuring Vito Acconci's narration. You can see (and hear) them here.
Coll.eo is one of the featured artists in the ongoing exhibition GAMES REFLEXIONS (October 18 - November 2013), curated by Isabelle Arvers, which is taking place at Le Carreau, the Center for Contemporary Art in Cergy, France.
The exhibition focuses on the intriguing interplay between reality and simulation. The main theme is the self-referentiality of ludic practices. Other contributors to GAMES REFLEXIONS include Harun Farocki, Robert Overweg, Pierre Giner, David Calvo, and several other international artists.
Coll.eo will be presenting CARJACKED (2012). This event marks the first public showing of the entire project (CARJACKED was previously displayed, as a set of prints, at Vector Game + Art Convergence in Toronto, Canada in February 2013 and several videos are available on colleo.org).
Isabelle Arvers, the main curator, discusses the idea behind the exhibition with We-Make-Money-Not-Art's Regine Debatty. It's a terrific conversation. Here's an excerpt:
Source: We Make Money Not Art
The second book from CONCRETE PRESS: CARJACKED.
A Coll.eo production, featuring contributions from Isabelle Arvers, Carlo Ricafort, and Jeffrey T. Schnapp.
COMING SOON
We are delighted to announce that Coll.eo is one of the featured artists in the upcoming exhibition GAMES REFLEXIONS (October 18 - November 2013), curated by Isabelle Arvers, which will take place at Le Carreau, the Center for Contemporary Art in Cergy, France. Coll.eo will be presenting CARJACKED (2012). This event marks the first public showing of the entire project (CARJACKED was previously displayed, as a set of prints, at Vector Game + Art Convergence in Toronto, Canada in February 2013).
The exhibition focuses on the intriguing interplay between reality and simulation. The main theme is the self-referentiality of ludic practices. Other contributors to GAMES REFLEXIONS include Harun Farocki, Robert Overweg, Pierre Giner, David Calvo, and several other international artists. The show takes place at Le Carreau, the Center for Contemporary Art in Cergy, France between October 18 and November 30, 2013.
photo by: Kathy Sloane
Coll.eo is delighted to be part of CONCRETE PRESS, a new imprint located in San Francisco. You can find additional information here.
The first release from CONCRETE PRESS is SMALLER THAN LIFE.
Operating in the hybrid zone between sculpture, craft, miniature making, and conceptual art, Matteo Bittanti creates a series of self-portraits that simultaneously appropriate and reconfigure a peculiar medium, toys.
This limited edition book provides a visual and critical documentation of SMALLER THAN LIFE. It features Colleen Flaherty's photographs and a long conversation between Bittanti and Juan Carlos Quintana.
The book can be ordered here.
Matteo Bittanti, SMALLER THAN LIFE, 2013
