15 years of the best of game-based arts and culture

How to (virtually) write all over your walls

A new gaming platform using the Kinect?  Artist Eric Mika’s überbeamer is a hand-held, spatially aware augmented reality projection system and a means of making any surface writeable.  The überbeamer takes the basic premise of augmented reality – the mediation of a physical environment via an overla

PAUSE: "Super Brontë Sisters" cartoon suggests Jane Eyre would have been better as a platformer

Artist Tom Gauld has crossed the Brontë sisters with Super Mario Bros. in this adorable cartoon published in the Guardian.  You can check out more of his work here.  –Lana Polansky [via]

Gamers’ spatial reasoning aids HIV research

Finally, concrete evidence of gaming’s ability to help change the world: for the first time, “gamers” have received credit for a scientific breakthrough. Using a program called Foldit, they produced an accurate model of the monomeric protease enzyme, a result which could have implications for treatm

Jason Nelson on the future of games as a medium

Guardian has a nice interview with Jason Nelson, an artist/poet who, along with Cory Archangel, is on the forefront of digital art. The interview touches on Nelson’s exodus to Australia (good), the death of Flash (bad), his games (purposefully Byzantine) and where he was giving the interview (a wait

September 30th, go for Baroque with KS and "Johann Sebastian Joust"