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.
exhibition
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.
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.
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.
School of Machines
An evening of alt-ctrl games closed a Berlin summer school
Press Play capped a month of hardware-and-play experiments at School of Machines, with Niklas Roy, Chloe Desmoineaux, and Lorenzo Pilia among the instructors.
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.
CONTROL
CONTROL filled a Peckham gallery with unplayable games
OHSH Projects argued that videogame aesthetics already remade contemporary art, and staged the show itself like a game.
Alina Nazmeeva
Alina Nazmeeva's YUHA builds a world from oil and myth
The simulation-based solo show opens August 28 at MANA Contemporary in Chicago, with a panel alongside longtime collaborator Yvette Granata.
Murlo
Murlo's Luddite rhythm games wrapped a run at Aviva Studios
Five minigames from the unreleased Something Beautiful played on Factory International's Media Wall, on a controller covered in the artist's 3D-printed sculptures.
Larry Achiampong
Four decades of consoles move into the museum
Larry Achiampong's The Gaming Room furnishes Pixel Pioneers at the Boijmans with a playable living room—games as memory, kinship and diaspora.