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.
Last night I plopped down in front of my television, popped on my Xbox, and used the video player to stream from my computer via a program called Vuze. This isn’t the first time; in fact, this is quite a common occurence as so much of my game-playing has transitioned to my iPad, 3DS, and, now, PlayS
Video We mentioned performance artist Chris Burden’s new installation Metropolis II, now showing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, once before, but we just discovered this video, directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, that walks us through the work. Per LACMA’s description: Metropolis II
Shay Pierce was a developer at OMGPOP, creator of the immensely popular Draw Something, and was faced with a dilemma. Now that Zynga had acquired his company, should he join the mothership or stay behind? It was Tuesday night. News of the acquisition had been relayed to me only hours before. On Mond
Daniel Johnston, Texas indie muse and king of the hand-drawn album cover, has released a new iPad app called Space Ducks to coincide with the release of his new graphic novel. It is, of course, “intergalactic saga of epic proportions that will make you rethink life, death, existence, and your place
Debates about game clones have been all the rage lately, covered in these pages as well as the NYT, but one author has a rousing defense of stealing other people’s ideas. Author Austin Kleon’s new book Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told About Being Creative makes the argument that stealing
Simon Denny. Those who don’t change will be switched off. 2012. We here at Kill Screen are obviously obsessed with screens and London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts is as well. Their upcoming exhibition Remote Control caught our eye and artist’s interaction with the medium of TV certainly has ra
One of the arguments for the existence of games is that they often show you who people really even if language can’t. In a move similar to the Christmas Truce soccer games of World War I, four Western journalists decided to play a game of paintball with members of the Lebanese Muslim military and po
In an interview with NPR last week, Jason Segel outlined the process for turing The Muppets into a reality. Along with director Nicholas Stoller, Segel had earned a reputation on screen as an student in the Judd Apatow school of film-making: a healthy respect for the power of raunchiness. But when t