Whale songs drive the render engine in a Singapore show

Marshmallow Laser Feast built the work with filmmaker Tom Mustill and bioacousticians in Barcelona, then let the animals’ own recordings deform the picture in real time.

One Pigeon Instead of Every Clock [Podcast]

An arcade cabinet that writes a stranger’s life, Christian Marclay’s 24-hour clock, and a pigeon romance rebuilt after its map switched off.

Gradually, Then Suddenly: What to Play, September 4

Turns out the whole universe is bent steel

Seventeen artists rethink our place on earth at the Frist

Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman opens Sept. 25 in Nashville with game-engine worlds by Ian Cheng and Jakob Kudsk Steensen, plus an MIT Press catalogue.

ChillCash pitched its sailing mystery as internet horror

A clip promised a cursed artifact that follows you forever, but Flux Empyrean had different ideas

Refik Anadol's AI museum takes your pulse as an input

Every visitor at the Grand LA wears a wristband and a scent collar, and leaves holding a paper token of the data they generated, to keep or to destroy.

DDoD brings its Fog-swallowed roguelite to Xbox day and date

The Future Entertainment Company built a 60-square-kilometer sealed zone on real-world topography, the way S.T.A.L.K.E.R. leaned on Chernobyl.

The Cicada Does Not Know Summer [Podcast]

An arcade cabinet in Tokyo writes a stranger's life from census data, and the artist who built it explains why you are allowed to go back exactly once.

SFPC's HTTPoetics reads the handmade web as memory work

Tyler Yin and Kayla Drzewicki revisit the class's hand-built sites: a CD-ROM homage, a hammam of grief, pop-up loops of a toxic relationship.

A video synthesizer is the control scheme in Hypnogenesis

Allen Riley and Andy Wallace wired a bullet hell into the guts of an image feedback loop, then demoed it on a CRT for the games-research crowd.

Jenna Caravello premiered Vimar at Edinburgh's film festival

A games-native animator, associate director of UCLA's Game Lab, cleared one of cinema's oldest showcases with two haunted minutes about a swan.

Alice Wang aims a first-person camera at cosmic architecture

Four films screened at the New Museum treat Mayan monuments and radio telescopes the way a game treats a level: a frame of reference to inhabit.