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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.

Two colorful cards. One reads Play-pril, a month long game making challenge. The other lists prompts for days one to six.

Arlo Howard

A hat of prompts gave Arlo Howard 30 games in 30 days

Play-pril, a daily making ritual from the interactive theatre maker, became a workshop at The Big Thing in Llandudno on Sept. 10.

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 brings game-engine worlds by Ian Cheng and Jakob Kudsk Steensen to Nashville, plus an MIT Press catalogue.

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

A large darkened gallery filled with floor-to-ceiling generative projections of foliage

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.