Pixel Art
A Field Guide to Modern Pixel Art
Nostalgia, revision, meta and noise: the four moves by which a new generation of pixel artists is pushing the form past 8-bit pastiche.
Loren Schmidt
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Goodnight Traffic City seeks a truer reflection of living with health issues
The message of the “Everyday” exhibition currently on display at La Mama Galleria, New York until December 10th is that “AIDS is EVERYDAY.” The art and ephemera produced for the gallery is all a reminder of this—that until there is a cure, and the infrastructure exists to distribute it to those who
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Beads of Orange Glass is a wonderful piece of generative art
Commissioned for the No Quarter exhibition at the NYU Game Center, Loren Schmidt’s Beads of Orange Glass is now available for download on itch.io. The game is not interested in holding players’ hands through a guided narrative; instead, players shape their experience themselves as they explore the g
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Let Inflorescence City Vol. 2 flower before your eyes
What is a city? It’s a question we rarely consider: that word, city, being such a useful label for the dense, multi-layered, contradictory, opaque, ever-changing, utopic, perverse, magical, and mundane piles of decaying masonry where most of the world’s population spend their lives. A city can be a
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Skeleton flower’s mystery plays out in an obsolete 1990s operating system
The bit of you left behind in your desktop.