Installation

art bit

In Kyoto, an art hotel treated games as social diagrams

art bit #6: Game Playing Society put HUMANITY, SCHiM and Coffee Talk beside Courtinat and Kihara

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.

satellite

Cezar Mocan's AI satellite cannot get its story straight

Cezar Mocan built a satellite that cannot agree with itself about the night a toxic lake vanished, and its unreliability turns out to be a design decision.

Installation

Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Otherworlds closes Sunday at PHI

Six ecological worlds from a decade of fieldwork, hung as chapters of one unfolding video game — the artist’s largest institutional show yet.

Meow Wolf

Inflatable microbes toured all five Meow Wolf worlds

Nicole Banowetz and Devin Reilly sewed Phenomenomaly’s newest Leviathan from the anatomy of microscopic organisms.

museum

A scanned house is the museum in Biosphere 3

Branden Collins and four collaborators modeled an actual home as an explorable level, then hid a second world called AKUPARA inside it.

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.

Ocean

Whale songs drive the render engine in a Singapore show

Marshmallow Laser Feast built the work with filmmaker Tom Mustill and bioacousticians in Barcelona, then let the animals’ own recordings deform the picture in real time.

ai

Refik Anadol's AI museum takes your pulse as an input

Every visitor at the Grand LA wears a wristband and a scent collar, and leaves holding a paper token of the data they generated, to keep or to destroy.

Podcast

The Cicada Does Not Know Summer [Podcast]

An arcade cabinet in Tokyo writes a stranger's life from census data, and the artist who built it explains why you are allowed to go back exactly once.

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.

supercut

Christian Marclay's The Clock is a game of looking

Twenty-four hours of film assembled entirely from clocks, and the behavior it produces is not watching at all but sightseeing, closer to a game than cinema.