Something lost, something found
Read on for a new take on collage in games and a world of felt and clay
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.
digital body
So It Goes
Lisa Jamhoury's Lossy is a memorial to the physical body in the age of the digital body—and a reckoning with what we lose when we let ourselves be averaged.
Playlist
May 28: What To Play This Weekend
Wanna be an intern for John le Carré?
Where did all the bees go?
Read on for French dungeons and a game as big as the planet itself.
Podcast
Telling the Bees: Kyriaki Goni on Building a Game from a Stranger's Gift
In this episode, I talk with Greek artist Kyriaki Goni about Telling the Bees — her in-development game about a character called the Bee-Seeker, searching for the last surviving bees in a near-future Aegean archipelago on the edge of ecological collapse.
ecological art
What Would You Do If You Had to Find the Last Surviving Bees?
The Athens-based artist Kyriaki Goni on a woven basket gifted to her at 18, the ritual of telling bees about deaths and births, and building a speculative video game set in a near-future Aegean.
Playlist
May 22: What to Play This Weekend
Something short for a long American weekend
The Places We're Losing Are Becoming Virtual Worlds
Plus: Faker as religious experience, strategy guides to non-existent games, and a very fancy date spot in Barcelona
ecology
The Places We're Losing Are Becoming Jakob Steensen's Worlds
Danish artist Jacob Kudsk Steensen turns volcanic vents, collapsed glaciers, and extinct birdsong into virtual worlds that blur science, grief, and living dream.
Playlist
May 14: What to Play This Weekend
Playlist #278 brings a hotel from out of this world and a geomagnetic storm?
What happens after the internet is gone?
Also: Kim K, game engines for fka, and read on for shredding
video art
Lou Faroux on Digital Apocalypse, the Kardashians, and Hollywood's Closeted Golden Age
French artist Lou Faroux uses game engines and AI avatars to ask what the internet did to us—and to resurrect Hollywood's closeted Golden Age.