Installation
Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Otherworlds closes Sunday at PHI
Six ecological worlds from a decade of fieldwork, hung as chapters of one unfolding video game — the artist’s largest institutional show yet.
ecology
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.
Paloma Dawkins
A tarot deck grows out of Paloma Dawkins's videogames
The Fool's Journey converts characters from Museum of Symmetry and the Apocablyss universe into 22 archetypes, debuting at MUTEK Forum August 26.
ALICE BUCKNELL
A whole triennial is named for a platformer's grace period
Alice Bucknell's Coyote Time—an eco sci-fi text adventure premiering at St. Louis's City Museum this fall—gave Counterpublic 2026 its title.
Kevin Peter He
A sculptural camera turns a game engine into cinema
Kevin Peter He and Dan Gorelick staged PASSAGE at an off-SIGGRAPH night in LA—visuals and score as two instruments answering each other live.
Wendi Yan
Wendi Yan built a puzzle game out of Daoist inner alchemy
You move through a science-fiction landscape as a bundle of qi, aligning your own breath with the planet's carbon cycle. Meditation as mechanic, scripture as technology.
ecology
The Places We're Losing Are Becoming Jakob Steensen's Worlds
Danish artist Jacob Kudsk Steensen turns volcanic vents, collapsed glaciers, and extinct birdsong into virtual worlds that blur science, grief, and living dream.
online talk
The Living Archive: Jakob Kudsk Steensen on Art, Ecology, and the Game Engine
In this conversation, we'll trace the arc of that practice through Otherworlds, Steensen's survey exhibition at Centre PHI in Montréal, which gathers five installations across five distinct spaces and spans roughly 15 years of work.
Virtual Reality
alpha_rats: Virtual reality is a dream state
Through VR experiences like Celestial Reactors, artist alpha_rats examines humanity's relationship with technology and nature while drawing inspiration from Soviet space race aesthetics and ecological concerns.