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A low-poly farm plot where rows of pale humanoid crops grow from dark soil in CORPSE FARM

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The crop is flesh in Berrysoft’s CORPSE FARM

A farming sim wears the cozy genre’s exact visual manners, only it's skin

Circular copper bench and table with embedded screens under a copper column in a curtained gallery

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.

Digitally rendered scene from Juan Covelli’s video game Los Caídos

Art

Juan Covelli rebuilds Colombia’s toppled monuments

Watching the 2021 strike from Mexico, the artist had strangers photograph defaced statues and empty plinths.

A player holds Aggregate’s custom controller in front of a large projection

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.

Installation view of Yonk’s Tales of Two at Nxt Museum

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.

A glitched golden armored figure holding a glowing sword against black, from Kara Güt's YLOD

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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.

A row of gaming PCs and monitors on truss tables under blue light and fog at Sybil in Berlin

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.

A custom-built gaming computer from Nestor Siré’s PC Gamer GOMA

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.

Voxel rendering of speculative London towers from You+Pea’s London Developers Toolkit

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.

Fanned colorful tarot cards beneath the words Tarot Deck Major Arcana

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.

A weathered wooden door stands open in a dark corridor whose walls are patterned with repeating faces

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.