Flux Empyrean
ChillCash pitched its sailing mystery as internet horror
A clip promised a cursed artifact that follows you forever, but Flux Empyrean had different ideas
Kill Screen Staff
ai
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
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.
SFPC
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.
Hypnogenesis
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
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
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.
generative art
Travess Smalley's pixel rugs get a fluorescent monograph
Vetro Editions prints 192 pages of generative weaving in UV-reactive inks, with essays by Casey Reas and Anika Meier.
puppetry
At Nxt Museum, the visitor is the puppeteer
Tales of Two, the first interactive installation from Hague animation studio Yonk, opened at Amsterdam’s new-media museum in July.
Garden of Giants
Cloud materials were eating Garden of Giants' framerate
Dakota Pailes-Friedman tells us what's so heavy
machinima
A dead PS3 is the excavation site in Kara Güt's YLOD
Screened in Matteo Bittanti's VRAL, the video uses Lance McDonald's Dark Souls debug mod to dig through what a console retains after play ends.
Game Art
Sixteen solo-dev projects closed Sybil's second Berlin arc
A World of One's Own gathered six months of weird-gaming residencies into one showcase, curated by Beth von Undall.