News
A biennale gives experimental games a month in Montreal
ELEKTRA's F(R)ICTION: Art & Games fills Arsenal Contemporary with work by 38 artists, Ayoung Kim and Anna Anthropy among them.
Art
Theo Triantafyllidis
Theo Triantafyllidis Shows Feral Metaverse at Frieze London
The 2026 Artist Award commission is a climbable soft spider that logs strangers into one shared multiplayer body
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.
Keiken
Inside Keiken’s giant mask, you wait to be reborn
The Divine Puppeteer at BALTIC is a walk-in character-select screen: a deity flicking through a catalogue of possible next bodies. Entry is free.
News
Yuha's Nightmares: Episode One arrives November 10
Yuliya Kozhemyako has shown these playable dreams from Ars Electronica to the gallery circuit
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Alan Kwan rebuilt Scent with a rock-ing controller
A dark room at Undershed in Bristol, a five-kilogram rock for a controller, and a war-torn city seen through the eyes of a stray dog, screened for everyone watching.
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A Whitney Biennial artwork is a game you play from home
Leo Castañeda's Camoflux Recall Grotto outlasts the galleries on artport
Daniel Temkin
Code is a plaything in Daniel Temkin’s esolangs
Natasha Chuk’s new essay reads esoteric programming languages through Oulipo, Aarseth’s ergodics, and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
books
A philosopher files Grand Theft Auto next to de Sade
Daisy Dixon’s Depraved treats games as full participants in the history of dangerous art, not late examples.
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.
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The boss fight is offscreen in Leonardo Devito's Dark Souls
The Florence-born painter puts the monitor, the keyboard and an unimpressed onlooker on canvas
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A precision platformer drawn in Ben Day dots
Aggro Crab's first signing is ThirtyThree's Rebounder