ceramic art

Teddy Pozo Explores Loss, Life, and Identity Through Interactive Clay

Artist Teddy Pozo transforms clay and circuitry into intimate gaming experiences, exploring transgender identity through sculptures that respond to human touch.

The Game Design of Everyday Things

The Game Design of Severance

Ben Stiller's Severance uses game design principles to explore information, identity, and workplace control through the lens of split personalities and corporate mystery.

AI consciousness

The Inner Lives of Lawrence Lek's Emotional AI

Lawrence Lek builds virtual worlds where AI develops consciousness, self-driving cars attend therapy, and surveillance systems dream of being wild foxes.

CGI noir

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.

3D art

Harriet Davey's Glossy Aliens Reject Gaming's Binary World

Berlin-based artist Harriet Davey transforms game engines into laboratories for queer identity, creating luminescent alien creatures that challenge gaming's aesthetic norms.

media theory

Long games and the pursuit of lost time

Games demand too much time, creating cultural moats that prevent shared experience and meaningful discourse. What if brevity could unlock their potential?

The Game Design of Everyday Things

Is Gerrymandering Cheating or Just A Good Strat?

American democracy operates like a complex board game where the rules keep changing, cheating is normalized, and spoilsports threaten the entire system.

live coding

How Roxanne Harris performs jazz with code

A Yale-trained computer scientist and jazz saxophonist has found a way to merge those worlds through live coding, transforming lines of Ruby script into improvisational performances that blur the boundaries between musician, programmer, and instrument.

environmental art

Sam Ghantous Finds Silicon Valley in a Sand Trap

Sam Ghantous traces silica from North Carolina mines to GPUs and golf courses, revealing the geological origins of our digital obsessions through video art.

poker

Balatro and the expected value of wonder

Balatro transforms poker into a mathematical puzzle that reveals how optimization culture has replaced genuine play, turning casino aesthetics into pure sensation.

physics

Mario von Rickenbach just wants you to play nice with others

Swiss designer Mario von Rickenbach discusses Rakete, his one-day cooperative rocket game, and how architectural thinking shapes his approach to physics.

AI companionship

What Gaming Tells Us About AI Companionship

Gaming has long faced the same moral panics now surrounding AI companions. MJ Cocking's relationship with an AI Donatello reveals the need for "emotional intelligence" to balance multiple realities.