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Ustwo: Monument Valley’s elegance is the result of "letting go"
How a “less is more” philosophy informed the development of this elegant game.
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The player as artist
Videogames have the unique ability to put the audience in the driver’s seat.
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A new exhibit asks if we’re more than just the sum of our data
“Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command,” says Ebenezer Scrooge near the end of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. That’s exactly what Karl Toomey did for the Lifelogging exhibit at the Science Gallery Dublin. In a s
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Artists are using 3D scanning to create "collaborative self-portraits"
Welcome to the land of philosophical quandaries.
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How No Man’s Sky paints 18 quintillion worlds with an algorithmic brush
“Funnel them into a box of ‘maths’.”
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The Forced Finger Project: Can A Machine Help You Sketch Like a Pro?
If the early days of your time at design school were anything like mine, you probably look back fondly (maybe a bit too rose-tintedly) on simpler days of ‘getting back to basics’ with hour after hour of practice drawing free-hand straight lines, ellipses, and cuboids in perspective (kids still do th
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The virtual Batcave looks good-maybe even too good
When Batman: The Animated Series first aired on Fox, the only way for me to explore the Gotham City it displayed on my TV was with my imagination. Minutes after each episode ended, I’d run outside with a cardboard shield covered in aluminum foil and a bat insignia I’d cut from black and yellow const
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Understand a priceless Kandinsky artwork better by absolutely wrecking it
It’s all done by clicking.
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Playlist: The Metroidvania goes to Ancient Greece
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. APOTHEON (PC) BY ALIENTRAP Apotheon uses the geometric constraints of a Greek sculpture to explore the limits of beauty and glory. It’s beautiful, sensuous, and deadly, which isn’t surprisi
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How To Escape
Exploring the potential of the screen, the page and the ceiling.
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A new video of Starboretum looks at trees in an otherwordly light
The children of Proteus keep multiplying.
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Tattoos, abstracted into data and blasted onto a canvas
In 1954, a small group of Japanese artists called the Gutai (Embodiment) group became interested in revealing the inner qualities of the materials they used in their art through performance. In one piece, Akira Kanayama used a remote controlled car to spread paint on a canvas. In another, Kazuo Shir