On January 16, 2014, CONCRETE PRESS released a monograph titled GRAND THEFT VITO which documents our 2013 performance Following Bit and modGrand Theft Vito with more than 685 illustrations and a long conversation with San Francisco-based artist Carlo Ricafort. 100 copies are available here.
THE STREETVIEWS OF SAN FRANCISCO
Our first project of 2014, The Streetviews of San Francisco, is now live.
GAMESCENES INTERVIEW
Game Art website GameScenes has published an excerpt of our interview with Carlo Ricafort. Titled "COLL.EO is Reinventing the Wheel", the interview is available here.
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CARJACKED BOOK NOW AVAILABLE
We are delighted to announce our new book, CARJACKED, the latest release from CONCRETE PRESS.
CARJACKED
Artwork by COLL.EO
Essays by Isabelle Arvers and Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Interview by Carlo Ricafor
"WMD" logo designed for COLL.EO by Jordan Braun
Release date: December 2, 2013
Features: Hardcover, Dust Jacket, 100 pages, 95 illustrations, full color.
Format: 11 x 13 inches = 33 x 28 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-991-10910-4
Price: $122.99
LIMITED EDITION: 100 copies
Description
Created by COLL.EO in 2012, CARJACKED is a counter-appropriation of the BMW Art Cars initiative, developed within the virtual spaces of the popular Forza Motorsport 4 racing game.
CARJACKED consists of seventeen virtual cars after Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, Cy Twombly, Barbara Kruger, Damien Hirst, Maurizio Cattelan, Gerhard Richter, Yayoi Kusama, Sol LeWitt, Julian Opie, Bansky, Frank West, Takashi Murakami, Invader, Bernhard Fuchs, Jake and Dinos Chapman, and Colleen Flaherty. CARJACKED brings the aura of the motor vehicle back into the (video)game. Literally: these virtual automobiles, or, rather, sculptures on wheels, are playable works of art.
This limited edition volume by CONCRETE PRESS provides a visual and critical documentatio of the project, bringing CARJACKED to a wider audience. Featuring contributions from Isabelle Arvers and Jeffrey T. Schnapp and a long conversation between COLL.EO and Carlo Ricafort, CARJACKED is an important contribution to the growing field of Game Art.
We are releasing 100 copies.
GET YOUR LIMITED COPY HERE
Short biographies
COLL.EO: A collaboration between Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti, COLL.EO makes artworks, performances, and interventions that lie at the intersection of new media, toy culture, and conceptual art. COLL.EO’s studio is located in San Francisco.
ISABELLE ARVERS: Isabelle Arvers is a French media art curator, critic and author, specializing in video and computer games, web animation, digital cinema, retrogaming, chiptune, and machinima. She was born in Paris and currently lives in Marseille.
CARLO RICAFORT: Born in Quezon City, Philippines, Carlo Ricafort is a visual artist. His work has been exhibited in the Bay Area, New York, Los Angeles, Manila, Philippines, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, Bangkok, Thailand, and Sete, France. Ricafort lives and works in San Francisco.
JEFFREY T. SCHNAPP: A cultural historian with research interests extending from antiquity to the present, Jeffrey Schnapp is faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Professor of Romance Languages & Literature. He is the faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard. Schnapp lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
THE GREAT ITALIAN RACE (1963-1993)
Our new project, The Great Italian Race (1963=1993), is now live. It consists of three sets of elements:
- Fifteen die-cast model cars in 1:43 scale; fifteen injection molded of polystyrene transparent display containers measuring 5 5/8 inches long x 2 5/16W x 1 7/8 inches high with white wooden base.
- Video documentation (The Italian Boom)
CARJACKED TEASER #2
The second book from CONCRETE PRESS: CARJACKED.
A Coll.eo production, featuring contributions from Isabelle Arvers, Carlo Ricafort, and Jeffrey T. Schnapp.
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