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Art and video games have always gone hand in hand as evidenced by the group show Game Over 3! at Giant Robot’s San Francisco branch.

Click here for full list of artists.

From the Giant Robot gamers:

“Giant Robot is proud to present Game Over III, a group show that pays homage to the continuous evolution of videogames and their massive influence on popular culture. The impact and inspiration of videogames will be represented through a wide assortment of styles and genres provided by top artists in the fields of illustration, painting, sewing, indie comics, and videogames.”

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Mother’s Day comes early this year as Giant Robot’s continuing Film Matters series treats you to a free screening of Bong Joon-Ho’s (The Host, Tokyo) latest award-winning film, Mother (in select theaters March 12).

RSVP for the free screening here.

More from the Giant Robots:

“The South Korean filmmaker is known to most American moviegoers for his post-modern monster movie, The Host, but before that he directed the much darker works, Barking Dogs Never Bite and Memories of Murder. Since contributing the otaku-themed “Shaking Tokyo” segment of the Tokyo! omnibus (along with Michel Gondry and Leos Carrax), Bong has gone on to direct Mother, which competed at Cannes in 2009 and has gone on to win accolades for his unrelenting direction and lead actress Kim Hye-ja’s gritty performance.

Trust us: (1) The less you know about the plot about a single mother’s relentless efforts to defend her obtuse son from a murder charge, the better, and (2) you’ll want to see this harsh-but-human movie in a theater.”

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The ubiquitous Uglydolls and their creators, husband and wife team of David Horvath and Sun-min Kim, stop by Giant Robot’s GR2 on Sawtelle to sign limited edition brand new “2002 Giant Robot Ice-Bats”.

From the Giant Robots:

“The plush will come in an edition of 300 and will also be distributed to our San Francisco and New York locations. It will be available at 3:00 pm at our Los Angeles location and at noon for our San Francisco and New York locations.”

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For the east coasters who weren’t able to view Giant Robot’s Biennale 2: 15 Years at the Japanese American National Museum, you’ll soon be able to see what made Giant Robot’s anniversary show such a success as Prints and Pieces comes to GRNY this Saturday.

Among the artists featured will be Takashi Murakami, Chiho Aoshima, David Choe, Ai Yamaguchi, David Horvath, Dehara, and Le Merde.

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Tosa Novmichi, one of the inventors of Maywa Denki’s cute little musical wind up Knockman toys, will be on hand to sign and demonstrate his latest creation the Otomatone at the Giant Robot’s GR2 on Sawtelle.

From the Giant Robots:

“Giant Robot is pleased to host a rare U.S. appearance by Tosa Novmichi at GR2. Tosa is half of the legendary Japan-based Maywa Denki music and art duo that creates its own ingenious and otherworldly instruments. In addition to touring and playing sold-out rock concerts around the world with their pneumatic, electronic, automated, and conceptual music devices, they create some of the world’s most interesting and interactive toys.”

Check out this demo video of the brilliant little Otomatone in action (it get’s really interesting around 1:15 and then Jimi Hendrix Woodstock interesting at 3:57!).

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Another weekend, another great art show at Giant Robot as they roll out the group show Year of the Tiger at GR2 on Sawtelle. Click here for a tiger style preview of the pieces!

More from the Robots:

“Giant Robot is proud to host Year of the Tiger, a group art show celebrating year 4708 on the lunar calendar. Pieces will include illustration, oils, pencils, prints, watercolor, sculpture, and other media–all dedicated one of the most powerful but also most sensitive animal in the Chinese zodiac.”

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As part of their ongoing Film Matters series, Giant Robot is offering a free screening to Jackie Chan’s latest film Shinjuku Incident tomorrow night at the Laemmle’s in Santa Monica. RSVP Essential: filmmatters@giantrobot.com. Click here for more info from Film Matters.

Click here or poster below for film synopsis and trailer.

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Oops, a little late on the closing party BUT the mega successful group show Giant Robot Biennale 2: 15 Years will be up for one last weekend through this Sunday at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Final weekend to view new works by David Choe, James Jean, Jeff Soto and many more.

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Giant Robot brings you some talented girl on girl art action as they proudly present Diplopia, a joint art show featuring long time friends Eleanor Davis and Katherine Guillen at GR2 on Sawtelle.

Check previews of Eleanor’s work here and Katherine’s work here.

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Although it may be cold and damp in LA, this weekend’s openings and events are sure to heat you up physically, mentally, emotionally and hopefully drunkenly.

• Giant Robot’s Biennale 2: 15 Years keeps on rolling with Friday’s intimate artist talk with fabled painter James Jean and GR’s Eric Nakamura (special edition print release too!) followed by Saturday’s (free admission day!) kid friendly art-making workshop with Stella Lai at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

• Portland based artist Andy Kehoe opens his bigest west coast show to date when he unveils The World Unseen and Those In Between at Silver Lake’s Thinkspace Gallery. Take a sneak peek of the show here.

• The Multi-Plane group show at Culver City’s Corey Helford Gallery marks their biggest group show of the year in a throwback to early animation where “each artist created an original painting using the multi-plane, which was made famous by pioneer animators Ub Iwerks, Max Fleischer, Bill Garrity, and Walt Disney. Consisting of three individual surfaces housed in a custom-made frame, the multi-plane creates depth and a three-dimensional effect through two glass foreground layers and a background wood panel.” Among the incredible lineup of artists are Todd Schorr, Gary Baseman, COOP, Tim Biskup, Sylvia Ji, Ron English, Luke Chueh, Jeff Soto, Carlos Ramos and Sage Vaughn.

• The Hit+Run homeboys celebrate their four year anniversary of silkcreening Southern California with Repeat Offender at the Echoplex in Echo Park. A celebration sure to turn into the weekend’s funnest dance party. “With close to 100,000 one-of-a-kind HIT+RUN shirts printed since the debut in November 2005, show off your favorite H+R shirt and get into the party for FREE. The first 300 guests receive complimentary gift bags with mix cds, stickers courtesy of STICKY RICK, and your choice of a blank t-shirt or poster to customize.” Featuring live screenprinting of 20 exclusive designs from Kofie One, Shark Toof, Kime Buzzelli and Mike C among others as well as music from the Gaslamp Killer and many more of LA’s finest.

• A double dosage of the fine folks of Family on Fairfax as they open the aptly titled Group Show One on Saturday featuring artists Ashley Macomber, Kevin Christy, Nicholas Haggard and Sarah Soquel Morhaim, followed by Sunday’s launch of Dear JD Salinger, I Forgive You Signed, Yoko a limited edition book of new poems by Spencer Moody and Anthony Anzalone and published by Cali’s Teenage Teardrops.

• Sweetness is abundant on Saturday as Susan Cianciolo returns to LA with her latest collection of art and uniquely designed clothing with Mountains and Flowers. Also joining Susan will be the musical stylings of the multi-talented ASKA, all going down at Space 15Twenty in Hollywood.

• ‘Tis the season for Santacon. ‘Nuff said. Click here for Saturday Santacons in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Check here for other worldwide Santacon locations.

• And finally, the fortunate art lovers of New York are treated to a double billing: James Marshall (DALEK) and his high flying space monkeys in his show And There Was War in Heaven; as well as the beautiful wooden women of Audrey Kawasaki in her show Hajimari-A Prelude. Both opening at the city’s Jonathan Levine Gallery.

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