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Alan Kwan rebuilt Scent with a rock-ing controller
A dark room at Undershed in Bristol, a five-kilogram rock for a controller, and a war-torn city seen through the eyes of a stray dog, screened for everyone watching.
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Gossamer Fog’s XP+10 spreads 40-plus artists across 24 sites
Ten years of showing game engines as art earns the Deptford gallery a 48-hour weekender, plotted through a personalized interactive map.
Mitchell Chan
Mitchell Chan's Insert Coin(s) suite is coming to Steam
Zantar, Moonboi and Ladyboss are now playable
SENTIENTS
At Watershed, six teenagers curated the games on show
SENTIENTS just closed at Undershed, with work by Marshmallow Laser Feast, David OReilly, Alice Bucknell, Alan Kwan and Demelza Kooij.
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In Kyoto, an art hotel treated games as social diagrams
art bit #6: Game Playing Society put HUMANITY, SCHiM and Coffee Talk beside Courtinat and Kihara
Venice Biennale
Exactly two playable games made it into the Venice Biennale
Elliott Burns went hunting across every national presentation and came back with KAZANA, Bulgaria's copper-clad political compass quiz.
Jon Rafman
Jon Rafman's Main Stream Media closes at K21 on Sept. 27
Ten days to catch the survey of the artist who filed the internet's dream
Art
Juan Covelli rebuilds Colombia’s toppled monuments
Watching the 2021 strike from Mexico, the artist had strangers photograph defaced statues and empty plinths.
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.
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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.
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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.