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Installation

Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Otherworlds closes Sunday at PHI

Six ecological worlds from a decade of fieldwork, hung as chapters of one unfolding video game — the artist’s largest institutional show yet.

Stephen Ddungu

Stephen Ddungu animates and scores a one-man prequel

The Sword of Symphony developer’s episodic project 00000 00 0x0000000 unfolds in [The Garden], a border between Ddungu’s games.

SILT

SILT’s monochrome abyss reached the Apple Design finals

Illustrator Tom Mead’s underwater world put Spiral Circus beside Cyberpunk 2077 at Apple Park

Control, I’m Not Coming Back

A stranded astronaut meets Voyager 1 in a free Steam game

Control, I’m Not Coming Back is Desborde Games’ hopecore walking sim

Meow Wolf

Inflatable microbes toured all five Meow Wolf worlds

Nicole Banowetz and Devin Reilly sewed Phenomenomaly’s newest Leviathan from the anatomy of microscopic organisms.

Centro de Cultura Digital

Mexico joins a seven-country games policy program

The Centro de Cultura Digital is the point of entry, so the largest videogame market in Latin America enters a regional policy body through a culture center.

The Biosphere 3 title screen, a glass dome on a small island

museum

A scanned house is the museum in Biosphere 3

Branden Collins and four collaborators modeled an actual home as an explorable level, then hid a second world called AKUPARA inside it.

animation

A 1991 animation frames early CGI in religious imagery

Alain Mongeau, nine years before founding MUTEK, and Eric Mattson built an eight-minute case that computer graphics inherited the job of the illuminated manuscript.

A player holds Aggregate’s custom controller in front of a large projection

Game Art

Desire paths teach a machine to want in Aggregate

Vincent Moulinet and the Distraction.fun collective give an AI reinforcement lessons in queer cruising grounds, thorny controller included.

Inkblood

A magnifying glass is the time machine in Inkblood

Hey Bird!'s occult detective game, coming from Critical Reflex in 2026, lets an Inquisitor watch the past replay through villagers' windows.

A dark installation view of a large-scale projection showing luminous underwater forms

Ocean

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.

Kaleidoscopic projection with a human silhouette at its center, from Saya Woolfalk's Floating World of the Cloud Quilt

museum

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.