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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.
Art
Art
Timur Si-Qin scanned an Amazon ecosystem into sculpture
Mariposita rebuilt a Renaco tree and its pond at full scale for Art Basel Unlimited—photogrammetry turned into an act of devotion.
digital art
PAMM’s first digital art commissions go to 21 artists
750 submissions from 50 countries came down to a cohort making video games, net art and CGI film across Latin America, the Caribbean and the African Diaspora.
Architecture
An architecture studio now works inside game space
Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson write up their practice for AD’s Staged issue, arguing games reach audiences buildings never will.
Pierre Moulin
A game tower crowned Diversion's tenth anniversary in Paris
Pierre Moulin's new game THE HOST, scored by Octave Magescas, showed alongside four works from the Distraction collective.
Federico Solmi
Offenbach scores Federico Solmi's Unity studio footage
A process reel shows hand-painted surfaces wrapped onto 3D models — the game engine used as camera and stage, never as game.
Rising
Tomo Kihara Will Not Sit Comfortably in One Chair
A cabinet in Tokyo runs a language model that writes a stranger's life from census data, and its maker is still deciding what to call the work he does.
machinima
Miles Buckle Makes Games You Can't Play
Miles Buckle rebuilds Rear Window, Amarcord and Hitchcock's Rope as late-'90s games nobody will ever play, and the impossibility is exactly the point.
performance
Kara Güt staged a two-person play inside Red Dead Online at a Dutch film festival
Two performers at a desk with controllers, walking their characters toward each other across a server whose weather and respawns nobody in the room controlled.
News
Is this Twitter bot the next Bob Ross?
Bob Ross is a man that needs no introduction, but I’ll write one anyway. Bob was a television host from long ago that taught the world how to paint. His signature afro, calming voice, and beautifully hand-painted vistas made him a household name in the 1980s and 1990s, until he lost his battle with
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The invention of BARCHboi, the videogame deity
For the past couple of years, the digital artist and game maker known as BARCHboi has kept himself secretive. His primary online identity has been a logo of a portrait with a black bar across the eyes, overlaid with glitches. Now BARCHboi (real name: Joseph Dowsett) has made himself naked. His new “
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Fake your way through the art world in Passpartout
If you’ve ever had a table at a convention, or had your work in a gallery, you’ve experienced the sharp sting of a stranger’s silent judgement. “How are you enjoying the show?” you ask as they walk by. They look down at your work and scowl, moving on wordlessly to buy some crappy fan art from the ne