ai
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.
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News
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
Playlist
Watch "A Field Guide of Orbital Melancholy" [Playlist 289]
Ask the satellite twice, get two different lies.
museum
A scanned house is the museum in Biosphere 3
Branden Collins and four collaborators modeled an actual home as an explorable level, then hid a second world called AKUPARA inside it.
Game Art
Desire paths teach a machine to want in Aggregate
Vincent Moulinet and the Distraction.fun collective give an AI reinforcement lessons in queer cruising grounds, thorny controller included.
Playlist
Gradually, Then Suddenly: What to Play, September 4
Turns out the whole universe is bent steel
museum
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.
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.
Playing Models
Playing Models brings its AI symposium to SCI-Arc
Architects who work in game engines gather in Los Angeles on September 18, free to attend, with an image open call closing August 31.
Lou Fauroux
Lou Fauroux's WhatRemains, Genesis screens at MUTEK Forum
Set in 2048, the film gives Google a cure for death — until hackers leak the source code to everyone. In Montreal Wednesday, with a Q&A to follow.
freeculture.api
The mouse in this AI war game is a demonic latex hand
freeculture.api built an idle game about autonomous weapons into a field-deployable hardshell case—and the critique is in the hardware.
interactive storytelling
Vincent Morisset: The poetic spontaneity of interactive storytelling
Director Vincent Morisset bridges technology and storytelling through innovative interactive experiences, from pioneering the first interactive music video with Arcade Fire to creating Motto, a participatory narrative that blends user contributions with poetic serendipity.