museum
Seventeen artists rethink our place on earth at the Frist
Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman opens Sept. 25 in Nashville with game-engine worlds by Ian Cheng and Jakob Kudsk Steensen, plus an MIT Press catalogue.
digital art
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The end of the world isn't so bad
Plus a defense contractor dreams of drones
Podcast
What Happens When the Internet Goes Out?
I sat down with Lou Faroux—French artist and filmmaker—to talk about growing up on The Sims, why she spent years making films before she ever touched a game engine, and what it means to treat internet collapse as an art subject rather than a catastrophe. Lou's
digital preservation
What Happens When You Preserve Your Games While You're Still Making Them?
Simon Flesser of Simogo preserves 15 years of iOS games not as you remember them, but exactly as they were—a radical act of fidelity over nostalgia.
real-time performance
Go to Diskokina to See the Future of Live Performance
I’m exploring Diskokina, the new vanguard of live performance that blends commedia dell'arte and the club. Artists are using game engines to redefine what theater can be.