News
Omnia Ex Natura Ends Casey Reas's Online HEK Residency
The Processing co-founder turns a weekly watercolor into a score for software agents, live, one last time before the show closes.
Generative Art
News
Protobyte Phylogeny Lets Visitors Evolve Artificial Life
Ira Greenberg's installation is part of Scaling Intelligence, Gray Area's free show of 11 new AI commissions in San Francisco.
News
Lev Manovich Details Soft Cinema II, Shares Clip
The sequel to Manovich and Andreas Kratky's 2005 database-cinema DVD assembles films in real time and now plays live HTML and JavaScript as footage.
News
V&A Opens Degrees of Disruption, a Vera Molnar Display
The free South Kensington show runs from 1960s computer drawings to Matt DesLauriers' Meridian, two editions of which just entered the museum's collection.
Noland Chaliha
When you slice these beetles, the halves play Ableton
Noland Chaliha's procedural insects refuse to die
MAZiN
A procedural disco eats its own memory on purpose
MAZiN built a fake PSX, a ROM corruptor to break it with, and a nightclub that degrades in real time.
Generative Art
Travess Smalley's pixel rugs get a fluorescent monograph
Vetro Editions prints 192 pages of generative weaving in UV-reactive inks, with essays by Casey Reas and Anika Meier.
Sound design
Sound Design Is the Most Ignored Art Form in Games. One Researcher Is Changing That.
A new study asks why there are so few sound-first games—and what you'd hear if you finally stopped shooting and started listening.
Generative Art
Did Competition Dance Train Us to Perform for Algorithms?
Maya Man's StarQuest turns AI-generated dancers and Dance Moms into a mirror—asking whether commanding digital bodies is an act of cruelty or creation.
Marina Zurkow
When it rains in Manhattan, it rains in Santa Fe
Marina Zurkow and James Schmitz's The River is a Circle regenerates the Hudson from live weather, tides and ship traffic — now at the Thoma Collection.
News
Cezar Mocan's Arcadia Inc. Shoots Its Own Stock Photos
Three AI agents walk a rendered pastoral in the Lisbon artist's real-time simulation, uploading pictures live to a fictional image bank.
architecture
Jose Sanchez: Game as a dialogue
Chilean architect Jose Sanchez blends the worlds of architecture and gaming through his studio Plethora Project, creating innovative city simulators that emphasize sustainability, community care, and participatory design.