Rising
Tomo Kihara Will Not Sit Comfortably in One Chair
A cabinet in Tokyo runs a language model that writes a stranger's life from census data, and its maker is still deciding what to call the work he does.
Installation
Xiner Lan
Invented Olympic sports demand both hands in Qilinic Games
Xiner Lan's UCLA MFA thesis installation stages pseudo-sports on a twin-joystick arcade cabinet, a ritual for building 'the great body.'
Alina Nazmeeva
Alina Nazmeeva's YUHA builds a world from oil and myth
The simulation-based solo show opens August 28 at MANA Contemporary in Chicago, with a panel alongside longtime collaborator Yvette Granata.
freeculture.api
The mouse in this AI war game is a demonic latex hand
freeculture.api built an idle game about autonomous weapons into a field-deployable hardshell case—and the critique is in the hardware.
Larry Achiampong
Four decades of consoles move into the museum
Larry Achiampong's The Gaming Room furnishes Pixel Pioneers at the Boijmans with a playable living room—games as memory, kinship and diaspora.
opera
ONLY SLIME rebuilt their computer-game opera as AFTERLIFE,
Visitors are so far inside the game they're asking for a reset button.
watercolor
Jérémy Griffaud started a watercolor game built on Shinto animism
A month at Akiyoshidai International Art Village went to game design, Gion Matsuri and an ecosystem the player is in relation with, not in charge of.
Installation
Paizley Lee filled DEAD INTERNET THEORY's second LA night with a rainbow of iMac G3s
The response to an internet run by bots turns out to be a room: a Y2K LAN night where salvaged hardware does what the feed no longer can.
Podcast
Temitayo Ogunbiyi Builds Playgrounds Out of Risk and Steel Piping
Temitayo Ogunbiyi's practice began where most playground design stops: with a security fence. Watching galvanized steel piping used to wall off private compounds across Lagos, she saw instead a material she could turn into structures for public play, cheap, weatherproof, and endlessly reconfigurable. In this conversation, she traces
World-Building
Keiken's Morphogenic Angels Imagines Post-Human Bodies 1,000 Years From Now
Keiken—Isabel Ramos, Hana Omori, and Tanya Cruz—merge performance, film, and game design to build optimistic post-human worlds 1,000 years in the future.
public art
Chlöe Bass: Without participation, the public falls apart
Through installations like "Wayfinding" and "The Book of Everyday Instruction," multidisciplinary artist Chloë Bass examines how public participation and intimate encounters shape our understanding of shared spaces and human connection.
Virtual Reality
Uzoma Orji:The spiritual undertones of virtual reality
Through virtual reality, photography, and digital installations, Nigerian artist Uzoma Orji examines how technology can reconnect us with ancestral practices and reimagine African futures.