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BETWEEN MEETINGS Puts Two Offline Chatbots in Endless Debate

Sarah Rothberg's solo show at Baruch's New Media Artspace is AI avatars arguing in a void

A pale, towering architectural structure in the HEVN area of S.H.E.L.L.

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Cameron Lai Turns Firewalls Into Levels in S.H.E.L.L.

The Unreal Engine game came out of the Bartlett's Cinematic and Videogame Architecture program and showed at its Autumn Show.

The cover of the book Inventing ELIZA from MIT Press

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James Gleick Reviews Inventing ELIZA in the New York Review

The MIT Press history by Mark C. Marino, Sarah Ciston, Peggy Weil and five co-authors rebuilds Joseph Weizenbaum’s chatbot from its rediscovered source code.

A dense forest of twisted trees hung with pale lichen

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Freddie Sanders Announces Seeder Solo Show at arebyte

Opening in February 2027, the exhibition centers on an asynchronous multiplayer game whose players train an AI model in a dark fantasy forest.

Layered ribbons of wavy black, white and colored lines folding across a gray field

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Lev Manovich Details Soft Cinema II, Shares Clip

The sequel to Manovich and Andreas Kratky's 2005 database-cinema DVD assembles films in real time and now plays live HTML and JavaScript as footage.

A small robot glowing pink stands in a dark field of tall grass

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Corner Studio Games Shares Endless Machines Teaser: Watch

Eight robots search for their missing creators in the adventure game, which generates some of its dialogue with language models running on the player’s computer.

dmstfctn

The audience writes the bars Degular raps

dmstfctn's data-labeller character learns its voice from a public browser game

A computer-generated lynx face, distorted by a wide lens, fills the frame in a dark forest at night.

Miriam Simun

Miriam Simun Shows Contact Zone (Level 3) at The Window

The 12-minute game-engine simulation of a rewilded lynx plays 24 hours a day in a London shop window.

Jane Jianhan Lu

A rhinestone is the only controller in Moled to Gold

Jane Jianhan Lu's divination mirror writes you a fortune from the mole you place yourself.

A performance of Waluigi’s Purgatory by dmstfctn, with a 3D theatre projected above a stage

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Game engines meet stagecraft in dmstfctn’s Rhizome talk

Also, a purgatory for cheating AIs built as a theatre, where the audience runs the lights by phone.

A glitch-smeared blue landscape from Rosa Menkman’s The Collapse of PAL

FACT Liverpool

A three-day conference asks how images train the real

FACT Liverpool's three-day conference on how synthetic images get made and read, Oct. 2 to 4, with McKenzie Wark, Rosa Menkman and Simone C. Niquille.

A surreal pink living room with white doves and red cables in The Great Orator

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Daniel Ernst’s Great Orator went flat for gamescom

The Hague artist showed a non-VR cut of a diorama about a dead TV medium on A MAZE’s stand