Matteo Bittanti: Los Santos Plays Itself

Cover: 9788869775192 | Los Santos Plays Itself | (Vol. 2) | Matteo Bittanti (u. a.) | Buch

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Los Santos Plays Itself begins with a simple claim: the most obsessively filmed city in contemporary art may be a fake Los Angeles built by Rockstar Games. Taking its cue from Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself, the book asks what happens when video art and post-photographic practices run on a commercial game engine. If Andersen traced how cinema framed a city, this study follows how simulation generates its own urban logic.
Across more than seventy works made between 2013 and 2025, the book tracks artists who treat Grand Theft Auto V as software rather than a narrative. Their work exposes Los Santos as executable code: an apparatus in which ideology is encoded into traffic models, weather systems, and police routines. Machinima becomes a post-cinematic practice that scripts resistance into this procedural logic through ambient observation, modding, and infrastructural critique.

Über den Autor

Matteo Bittanti is a media theorist, curator, writer, and artist whose work centres on video games and contemporary art. He directs the Milan Machinima Festival and curates the online platform VRAL. As a scholar, he has published widely on games, game-based art, and visual culture. He is associate professor of media studies at IULM University, dividing his time between Los Angeles and Milan.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788869775192
ISBN-10:	8869775194
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Bittanti, Matteo Veenstra, Jordy
Hersteller:	Mimesis International
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	210 x 140 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Matteo Bittanti (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.01.2026
Gewicht:	0,443 kg