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Play God with interactive Portals project.

LA-based designer Jayne Vidheecharoen has developed a really fascinating Kickstarter proposal to allow you recreate the Hand of God in a digital environment.  She writes: More specifically, my Portals will consist of a pair of boxes. Each box has a screen on the front and a gateway on the side where

This playful installation is half Show-Biz Pizza Place and half fine art.

Net Z33, located at the House for Contemporary Art Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium, is a different kind of interactive art. While visitors are typically not allowed to touch paintings and sculptures, in this case, they are encouraged to climb and crawl through a “social sculpture,” becoming part of the artw

PAUSE: What if the pleasures of reading could one day apply to games?

Flavorwire has compiled a list on quotes on the pleasures we take from reading. My dream is that one day all of these quotes will also apply to videogames. Like, try replacing book with game in the following quotes, like this one Kafka: “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or

Indie Game: The Movie to screen at Sundance.

Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary about the growing indie game scene, will be premiering at the 2012 Sundance film festival. The directors, Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky, announced that the film will be at the prestigious film festival beating out thousands of other submissions to be one of the

Our Daily Glitch: All hail the four-legged Sims dog of the apocalypse.

Why is architectural criticism in trouble?

Thomas Fisher thinks that architectural criticism needs a shakeup. With major American newspapers cutting staff down — The New York Times didn’t replace their old architecture writer — there’s little room for the art form to grow.  “What we need is criticism that treats renderings and buildings as d

PLAY THIS: A Japanese interactive music video turns a single tweet into an epic journey.

Japanese indie-pop outfit Androp have had quite a digital presence recently with their latest music video for their song, “Bell,” which also happens to be a video game. While video game music videos are not particularly new, this one actually imparts a worthy message regarding the nature of digital