First, there was the talkie. Then, the amazing technicolor. Soon, cineplexes started handing out paper red-and-blue glasses to show their movies IN THREE-DEEEE! Once revolutionary in their time, all of these features now come standard on even the cheapest of smartphones (well, so long as you still h
Released at the end of last year, Postcards from Home has the feel of a curio: a weighty tome assembled exclusively from images captured within Sony’s discontinued virtual world, Home (2008-2015). Its author, the Spanish photographer Roc Herms, has explored games before, whether making absurdist use
There was a trilogy of Blair Witch games back in the early 2000s but they missed the point. The 1999 movie worked because it blurred the line between reality and horror. Before the film even came out, the low-key website detailed the fake legend itself and presented its actors as real documentary ma
Just as photographs generally look good with a black and white filter, no matter the subject matter, it’s become increasingly apparent to me that stripping a game of its textures almost always produces a cool effect. One of the artists working on The Witness seems to agree—she was able to produce th
Grand Theft Auto V is an ugly mirror held up to modern-day America, and it’s plenty dark as it is, thanks. But Danish photographer Morten Rockford Ravn has taken to capturing the game’s inherent “existential despair” in striking black-and-white snapshots with the in-game camera phone. It’s an ongoin
The average RuneScape player is pudgy, white, male, and severely depressed, according to a composite photo that melded together over 1000 faces of attendees at an event for the game held in London. OK, so the locale and choice of game might have skewed the results, but it still is interesting to thi
Club Rothko Builder is a place on the web for creating glitchy, abstract digital art. Its creator LaTurbo Avedon is no stranger to the digital space, having opened art shows in Second Life and constructed impossible digital sculptures that look like crumpled silicon. In fact, we ran a feature her la
We don’t know who this man is but he is our hero. We likewise don’t know where this legendary selfie was taken, other than at a crash site in the middle of an ocean somewhere recently. But we’re pretty sure he got the idea to snap a photo of himself with the wreckage of an airplane over his shoulder
The rising popularity of Instagram demonstrates how we all want to be photographers in the real world. But what about our virtual lives? We take a look inside the budding community of in-game photography and what it means for the future of digital art.
