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A pale blue deed from Mitchell F. Chan's Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility

Mitchell Chan

Mitchell F. Chan joins LACMA's landmark digital art gift

The museum's patron circle and the Mneme Foundation are handing over 200-plus works, putting the art game maker beside Vera Molnar and Harold Cohen.

The words 100 Art Games in bubble letters over a pixelated first-person gallery with a monster and a shotgun

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Side Quest's Elliott Burns Puts the Art Game to a Vote

A performance lecture at Peckham Digital, the South London creative computing festival at Copeland Gallery, has the audience rate definitions by phone.

An installation desk crowded with specimens, botanical clippings, a monitor and blue lab coveralls

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A cabinet of curiosities is playable at Peckham Digital

Sabina Oțelea's Hidden Key joins Minimal Viable Home, the four-artist show of games as an art form at Copeland Gallery, Oct. 22 to 25.

Dense crowd of Sleeping Dogs characters running through a layered, ghosted Hong Kong street

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Wai-Keung Hui Stages a 1989 Evacuation Plan in Sleeping Dogs

The 12-minute machinima, based on a declassified 1989 British evacuation plan, streams free on VRAL through Oct. 15.

Kaleidoscopic projection with a human silhouette at its center, from Saya Woolfalk's Floating World of the Cloud Quilt

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Seventeen artists rethink our place on earth at the Frist

Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman brings game-engine worlds by Ian Cheng and Jakob Kudsk Steensen to Nashville, plus an MIT Press catalogue.

A fluorescent pixel-grid rug composition from Travess Smalley's Pixel Rugs

Generative Art

Travess Smalley's pixel rugs get a fluorescent monograph

Vetro Editions prints 192 pages of generative weaving in UV-reactive inks, with essays by Casey Reas and Anika Meier.

A glitched golden armored figure holding a glowing sword against black, from Kara Güt's YLOD

machinima

A dead PS3 is the excavation site in Kara Güt's YLOD

Screened in Matteo Bittanti's VRAL, the video uses Lance McDonald's Dark Souls debug mod to dig through what a console retains after play ends.

A row of gaming PCs and monitors on truss tables under blue light and fog at Sybil in Berlin

Game Art

Sixteen solo-dev projects closed Sybil's second Berlin arc

A World of One's Own gathered six months of weird-gaming residencies into one showcase, curated by Beth von Undall.

Sculptural installation of a scanned Renaco tree ecosystem at Art Basel Unlimited

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.

A custom-built gaming computer from Nestor Siré’s PC Gamer GOMA

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.

Voxel rendering of speculative London towers from You+Pea’s London Developers Toolkit

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.

A low-polygon recreation of the Rear Window courtyard, with a figure standing in a lit apartment window

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.