Boston -- Upgrade! // Cambridge Arts Council

Front seat on the !


The bluescreen of death @ Upgrade!.... It all worked out in the end ^^. Mark and Joe presenting an Upgrade!



I was lucky enough to meet with the good people from the Cambridge arts Council during my trip. COA is coming to this space as a large-scale panorama April 24 for Cyberarts 2009.

View from the Mass Art library of Boston.

Enter the Matrix in The Providence Phoenix

and I were mentioned in The Phoenix's Museum And Gallery section ^^. The article
was by .

"I've seen stuff that has evokes the look of more recent games — like photos of game landscapes or Mark Skwarek's interactive apocalyptic digital environment Children of Arcadia, which he exhibited at the RISD thesis show last spring....."

Craig Radix's render

Work by my old student Craig Radix --
craigjradix21 at yahoo dot com
Great work!

game jam in wired magazine

Our team projects I helped create during the were mentioned in wired magazine! The mention was in Clive Thompson's .







You can download the games we made and hundreds of others from across the world .

COA shortlisted for ISEA!

has been shortlisted for presentation at
[ISEA]^^!

I will keep you posted -- will know by the end of the week ^^ !

showing @ cyberarts 09

We are lucky enough to be able to show the at
^^! we will be showing COA at the April 20 through May 24.

Arcadia will be projected as a large panorama. Come see!

game jam

I participated in the global game jam that took place at . It was truly a great experience. I was lucky enough to work with some super talented people. You can download the games we made and hundreds of others from across the world .

I made 3-D assets as well as story images for


and there's only one parachute on board!!
Use your trusty chainsaw [that u were bringing on vacation], to break open suite cases, toilets, safes, and whatever was checked in to hunt for the parachute.
...Gameplay with the Wii remote

Read more about MatErialism @ 9.8m/s2 on our .


Here are some of the assets I created for

NYU Polytech - 3d Graphics 2 - Final Projects

Here are some of my NYU Polytech 3d Graphics 2 students final projects.

Soldier Demo by Anthony Musich

Modeling, rig, textures and animation by Anthony Musich using Maya.
This animation is a test demo for a larger project using Maya Live.
This will combine the virtual soldier with live video.
contact ::: omega56 at gmail dot com

David Lee -- 3d Graphics 2

Made with Blender- work in progress.

City Tech's -- 3D AutoCAD final projects

Here are some of my first-year 3-D AutoCAD students final projects at New York City College of Technology's Architecture Department. Please see the student section of the blog for more students work and higher resolution images.

Jing Yu Chao -- Jubliee Church

Contact-- chelsea_chao at hotmail dot com

Dorta Rozanska


Dennis Edemeka

Contact-- decembalo at gmail dot com

Mark Skwarek is BXMC Researcher in Residence @ NYU Polytech

I am excited that I will be a BXMC [Brooklyn Experimental Media Center] Researcher in Residence @ NYU Polytech. I am very lucky to be able to work with such a talented group of people! I also teach 3-D graphics for real-time applications at the Integrated Digital Media Institute at Polytechnic Institute of NYU. More info soon... .

Joseph Hocking will present at Technarte 2009 in Bilbao Spain --

Joe [my partner in crime] will be lecturing at Technarte 2009 April 23rd & 24th of 2009 in Bilbao (Spain). At the lecture he will present on our project Children of Arcadia along with some of his other projects. Great work Joe!

TECHNARTE is an international conference on art and technology that seeks to become the most important event of its kind. The aims are to present technological developments that enhance a broader expression of modern art, and to provide a forum for debate and reflection on the convergence between technology and art.

Mark & Joe present at Upgrade! Boston on February 24. 09

Joe and I will present Children of Arcadia at Upgrade! Boston on February 24 . 09. The lecture will take place at Mass Art [#1 !!!!] where I did my undergrad in painting. Please come if you're around.

Info and Directions :::
7:00 pm @ Studio for Interrelated Media
North 181 - entrance on Evans Way MAP
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Follow the signs posted on the outside of the Tower Building (black glass)
[Green Line "E"]

THE CHILDREN OF ARCADIA's installation @ Sunshine Art Museum

Here's an image of The Children of Arcadia's installation at the Sunshine Art Museum in Beijing. Unfortunately we were unable to project the work because of skylights in the museum. We were quite pleased with the final installation. The show runs until November 30, there's still time.......

Some of my architecture student's work..... . .


Here is some strong student work made in my [first-year] 3-D AutoCAD class that I'm currently teaching at New York City College of Technology's Architecture Department. These renders were done by my student Dennis Edemeka [decembalo@gmail.com] for the classes Barcelona Pavilion Project.

Baghdad Skyline mentioned on on Rhizome.org

I'm excited to say Baghdad Skyline was mentioned on Rhizome.org in an artical by Ceci Moss "Goodbye Bush!". This really means alot to myself and the rest of the team because we felt so strongly about the piece. The project team was made up of myself - Mark Skwarek project, Joseph Hocking code, Felix Lu assistant, and Damon Baker as advisor.

Baghdad Skyline was originally shown at Soundscape2007 which was produced by Savvas Spyridopoulos [much thx!]

Opening images from Sunshine Art Museum

Opening images from Sunshine Art Museum


Images from the opening of the Sunshine Art Museum's
Inaugural Exhibition which THE CHILDREN OF ARCADIA is currently being shown in. More images at my Flickr

COA mentioned on Turbulence's Networked Performance Blog

The good people at Turbulence's Networked Performance Blog
were kind enough to recently mention Children of Arcadia on their site.
Please have a look and leave a comment HERE ^^.