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Seventeen artists rethink our place on earth at the Frist

Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman opens Sept. 25 in Nashville with game-engine worlds by Ian Cheng and Jakob Kudsk Steensen, plus an MIT Press catalogue.

Flux Empyrean

ChillCash pitched its sailing mystery as internet horror

A clip promised a cursed artifact that follows you forever, but Flux Empyrean had different ideas

ai

Refik Anadol's AI museum takes your pulse as an input

Every visitor at the Grand LA wears a wristband and a scent collar, and leaves holding a paper token of the data they generated, to keep or to destroy.

DDoD

DDoD brings its Fog-swallowed roguelite to Xbox day and date

The Future Entertainment Company built a 60-square-kilometer sealed zone on real-world topography, the way S.T.A.L.K.E.R. leaned on Chernobyl.

SFPC

SFPC's HTTPoetics reads the handmade web as memory work

Tyler Yin and Kayla Drzewicki revisit the class's hand-built sites: a CD-ROM homage, a hammam of grief, pop-up loops of a toxic relationship.

Hypnogenesis

A video synthesizer is the control scheme in Hypnogenesis

Allen Riley and Andy Wallace wired a bullet hell into the guts of an image feedback loop, then demoed it on a CRT for the games-research crowd.

Jenna Caravello

Jenna Caravello premiered Vimar at Edinburgh's film festival

A games-native animator, associate director of UCLA's Game Lab, cleared one of cinema's oldest showcases with two haunted minutes about a swan.

Alice Wang

Alice Wang aims a first-person camera at cosmic architecture

Four films screened at the New Museum treat Mayan monuments and radio telescopes the way a game treats a level: a frame of reference to inhabit.

Generative Art

Travess Smalley's pixel rugs get a fluorescent monograph

Vetro Editions prints 192 pages of generative weaving in UV-reactive inks, with essays by Casey Reas and Anika Meier.

puppetry

At Nxt Museum, the visitor is the puppeteer

Tales of Two, the first interactive installation from Hague animation studio Yonk, opened at Amsterdam’s new-media museum in July.

Garden of Giants

Cloud materials were eating Garden of Giants' framerate

Dakota Pailes-Friedman tells us what's so heavy

supercut

Christian Marclay's The Clock is a game of looking

Twenty-four hours of film assembled entirely from clocks, and the behavior it produces is not watching at all but sightseeing, closer to a game than cinema.