dmstfctn
The audience writes the bars Degular raps
dmstfctn's data-labeller character learns its voice from a public browser game
ai
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.
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.
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.
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.
News
A funeral for the internet went to market at Venice
Samantha Gorman, Scarlett Kim and Danny Cannizzaro staged a smartglass ritual where the mourners co-write the eulogy with an AI.
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 brings game-engine worlds by Ian Cheng and Jakob Kudsk Steensen to Nashville, plus an MIT Press catalogue.