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Electric Objects finally turns your glorious screenshots and animations into framed art
Former betaworks general manager wants to turn your Tumblr dashboard into a gallery
Jamin Warren
Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
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Dutch installation lets you "touch" a super collider with sponge balls
Artist Niklas Roy makes the untouchable touchable
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Hardland evokes the soft, pliable spirit of Gumby, Wallace & Gromit
When Gumby creator Art Clokey died in 2010, television lost a link to its stop-motion past. Mr. Clokey trained under modernist filmmaker Slavko Vorkapi? and in 1953, he made a student film, “Gumbasia” —a nod to Disney’s Fantasia — in which clay shapes dance to a jazz soundtrack. That rhythm became G
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Marc Essen’s Playlist pick Nidhogg comes to Mac
Finally.
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Harvard architecture students turn Tokyo into brain-melting digital playground
Do architects make the best game designers?
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Finally, a first-person shooter arena made out of LEGOs
Writing in The Atlantic, author Christine Gross-Loh was unsettled by how quickly young boys turn to guns for free play: Then my firstborn went to a birthday party. In the goodie bags for these four-year-olds was a plastic toy gun. My son was utterly riveted. I tried to coax it away from him. “Bang b
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Back to Bed, a surrealist sleepwalker, stumbles out in August
A Danish student project springs to life.
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Circle Stop is colorful and evasive lightning in an iOS bottle
Three NYU students make a straphangers’ delight.
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Twitter bot turns text adventures inventories into a sea of creativity
A ham sandwich, a green cable, a zipper, a cracked coconut, a grue suit.
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League of Legends reunion story shows games as the new pen pal letter
Not sure how we missed this one. Riot Games asked San Francisco agency Muhtayzik Hoffer to show what League of Legends means to its millions of players and the result was a short called “Tim’s Story.” Tim lives in Nebraska, but grew up in Arizona. After his father endures a coma, the family decides
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Alcazar will puzzle your afternoon, bend your brain
Prepare to cede your afternoon. Jérôme Morin-Drouin of the Incredible Company has released a delightful and maddening puzzler in the form of Alcazar. Drawing on elements of Moorish design, from which the game takes its name, the game asks you to merely connect two or more exits in a straight line wh
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TV and film are full of bad dads, but games are doing better
“[On TV] if there is a dad in the home, he is an idiot. It must have reflected our own discomfort with dads being competent,” said Hanna Rosin on a panel about the future of fatherhood this weekend at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “You put a dad in front of his kid, and the dad gives the worst advice. Y