Art

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.

Ocean

Whale songs drive the render engine in a Singapore show

Marshmallow Laser Feast built the work with filmmaker Tom Mustill and bioacousticians in Barcelona, then let the animals’ own recordings deform the picture in real time.

ai

Refik Anadol's AI museum takes your pulse as an input

Every visitor at the Grand LA wears a wristband and a scent collar, and leaves holding a paper token of the data they generated, to keep or to destroy.

Podcast

The Cicada Does Not Know Summer [Podcast]

An arcade cabinet in Tokyo writes a stranger's life from census data, and the artist who built it explains why you are allowed to go back exactly once.

supercut

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

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.

Gray Area

Gray Area now lends out books, kits and gadgets

Anastasia Chernysheva's Cybersentics (little) Library launched Aug. 20 in San Francisco as a collection its own community stocks.