Game Art
Desire paths teach a machine to want in Aggregate
Vincent Moulinet and the Distraction.fun collective give an AI reinforcement lessons in queer cruising grounds, thorny controller included.
Game Art
puppetry
At Nxt Museum, the visitor is the puppeteer
Tales of Two, the first interactive installation from Hague animation studio Yonk, opened at Amsterdam’s new-media museum in July.
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.
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.
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.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley releases I DIDNT REALISE YOU THOUGHT LIKE THAT as a free browser game
The next chapter of Serpentine's THE DELUSION imagines every hostile online comment made physically real, and asks who you would open the door for.
Media Art
Eddo Stern: Experimentation is valuable
Eddo Stern, a pioneering game artist and Founding Director of the UCLA Game Lab, discusses the interplay between art and game design, his ongoing project Vietnam Romance, and the importance of experimentation in his creative practice.
machinima
Jacky Connolly: Mining memories for suburban fantasies
: Artist Jacky Connolly transforms The Sims into a cinematic medium, crafting moody digital films that reimagine her Hudson Valley upbringing through leisurely suburban vignettes that blur the boundaries between memory, virtuality, and place.
virtual photography
Carson Lynn: Sculpting with virtual light
Artist Carson Lynn interrogates the boundaries of photography by capturing and manipulating virtual light within game spaces, creating works that question conventional definitions of image-making while exploring queerness in digital landscapes.
in-game photography
Photo Bomb
A new generation of photographers is exploring the vast unknowns of your favorite games