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When you attack the boss in Camoflux, the landscape wins
Leo Castañeda built the Whitney Biennial’s game installation with grandmother Maria Thereza Negreiros, 96—and its browser spin-off is free to play.
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Playable poems now come with peer review
Game Poems, Jordan Magnuson's open-access magazine of short-form videogames, borrows the literary journal apparatus:
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Five South Asian Australian artists build memory, mythology, and queer liberation.
The Transmedia Worldbuilding Residency Exhibition at 4A Centre trots the globe for inspiration
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Peter Burr's DVD-era animation network turned 20 at Roulette
The USEFUL FANTASY program ran on a repair dungeon, a performer inside a videogame, and instruments where sound and image trade places.
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Lucas Lugarinho Shows Ghost Rococó at the Rijksakademie
Players control a stray bullet drifting through a dream with no mission or target.
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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
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Cameron Granger builds a dance floor you can only cross once
Granger spent a decade making art before he made a game. His first is a warehouse party with 10 minutes left, and you are the Angel of History.
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Abandoned Miis come back in a homebrew Wii game
Janne Schimmel and Rein van der Woerd pulled forgotten avatars off secondhand Nintendo consoles
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Cezar Mocan's AI satellite cannot get its story straight
Cezar Mocan built a satellite that cannot agree with itself about the night a toxic lake vanished, and its unreliability turns out to be a design decision.
Art
Juan Covelli rebuilds Colombia’s toppled monuments
Watching the 2021 strike from Mexico, the artist had strangers photograph defaced statues and empty plinths.
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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.
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A 1991 animation frames early CGI in religious imagery
Alain Mongeau, nine years before founding MUTEK, and Eric Mattson built an eight-minute case that computer graphics inherited the job of the illuminated manuscript.