Struggling to connect in a pixilated world
By Jenn Frank
[The piece opened in print with an epigraph from Christopher King, “Cultural dimensions of dementia and care-giving,” in Care-giving in Dementia: Research and Applications, 1997.]
“Wow, you must really hate yourself.”
That was Scott, typing at me from three city blocks away.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
