Five Behind-the-Scenes Observations from Our Lawrence Lek Interview
Lawrence Lek creates cinematic game worlds that blur fiction and reality, using AI aesthetics and virtual architecture to examine our technological present.
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Invented Olympic sports demand both hands in Qilinic Games
Xiner Lan's UCLA MFA thesis installation stages pseudo-sports on a twin-joystick arcade cabinet, a ritual for building 'the great body.'
Alina Nazmeeva's YUHA builds a world from oil and myth
The simulation-based solo show opens August 28 at MANA Contemporary in Chicago, with a panel alongside longtime collaborator Yvette Granata.
A tarot deck grows out of Paloma Dawkins's videogames
The Fool's Journey converts characters from Museum of Symmetry and the Apocablyss universe into 22 archetypes, debuting at MUTEK Forum August 26.
Mexico City street legends turn up as low-poly game skins
The anonymous account cdmx.exe models the capital's characters in PS2-era polygons, and the audience keeps asking where to download them.