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Lou Faroux on Digital Apocalypse, the Kardashians, and Hollywood's Closeted Golden Age
French artist Lou Faroux uses game engines and AI avatars to ask what the internet did to us—and to resurrect Hollywood's closeted Golden Age.
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What Happens When the Internet Goes Out?
I sat down with Lou Faroux—French artist and filmmaker—to talk about growing up on The Sims, why she spent years making films before she ever touched a game engine, and what it means to treat internet collapse as an art subject rather than a catastrophe. Lou's
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How major videogames are slowly readying us for a gay protagonist
Hollywood did it.