Amazon’s Twitch purchase isn’t just about games. It’s about public consumption.
You are what you buy what you play.
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.
Amazon’s Twitch acquisition shows games are still cultural underachievers
Ignore games at your own peril.
New Threes! poster goes against the grain
Cory Schmitz tackles Asher Vollmer’s iOS hit and others
Virtual reality will save games from itself
Do we really want to be scared?
Friend and Foe releases new images from Vane’s dusty expanse
Former member’s of Last Guardian team are making something new–and dusty
BoxPop brings out the chessmaster mathematician in you
In chess, there’s something known as a “a knight’s tour.” It’s a sequence of moves around the board where the knight visits every square only once and the problem has been a challenge for mathematicians to solve it since Swiss physicist Leonhard Euler tackled it the 18th century. If you didn’t know,
Bow before your new god, this interactive tree of lights
Musician/tinkerer/muse Imogen Heap has created your new idol.
There are more adult women playing games than teenage boys. Duh.
This should be surprising to no one.
London’s statues come to life with the voice of Patrick Stewart, others
A bold experiment gives life to the inanimate.
Designer-artist Yuri Suzuki plays with sound in first exhibition
Japanese designer wants you to open your ears.
Want people to care about the environment? Show pollution in virtual reality.
Stanford researchers want to make you think about the world in a enw way.”
Computer eyesight makes big strides in weekend competition
The computer will see you now.
CounterSpy is more John Le Carré than James Bond
Channeling the secret side of the Cold War.
Omote will paint and transform your face in real-time
Maybe she’s made for it. Maybe it’s this amazing face-tracking rig.
First virtual reality surgery takes you inside the ER
Surgeon Simulator Simulator
Paper Playscapes is musical chairs with an architectural twist
You can already hear the music.
Japanese "Device Art" exhibition captures playful interactions with hardware
If you had a chance to check MoMA’s last design exhibition Talk to Me, you might have noticed several devices such as Sputniko!’s Menstruation Machine which mimics the pain of, well, menstruation. Or Kate Hartman’s Talk to Yourself Hat which transmits sounds from one’s mouth directly into one’s ears
Hohokum custom vinyl lights up the sky
Ghostly releases all the tracks online with some custom vinyl to boot.
Finger Simulator will delight and disgust you
Michael Frei and Mario von Rickenbach point the way.
When the robots take our jobs, we’ll play games instead
A new survey forecasts a future of less work—and, presumably, a lot more play.
Disney uses 3D printing to make "impossible" spinning tops
Hannukah will never be the same.
"Hyperlapse" video gives new perspective to first-person film
Steady as she goes.
Mineblock envisions a troll-free Minecraft universe
Earlier this year, eight-year-old Jivan Armen logged onto a Minecraft server in his home in east Vancouver to start building something new, as millions of his peers do each day. Jivan loves roller coasters and had begun constructing one to transport sheep throughout his world. Then disaster struck.
Virtual art gallery lets you leap on Warhols
Feel free to touch the art.
Weighing war’s cost, The Sun Also Rises debuts today
Former art students explore the cost of war.