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Banner artwork for the RESILIENT GLITCHES / HYPERNOMA media art festival in Graz

News

HYPERNOMA launched a three-year platform for unruly play

Graz's RESILIENT GLITCHES festival closed ten days at Schaumbad

Jon Rafman

Jon Rafman's Main Stream Media closes at K21 on Sept. 27

Ten days to catch the survey of the artist who filed the internet's dream

Playlist

Riding a Bike Through San Andreas [Podcast]

Bruno Abib on grief, the Lisbon suburbs, and why his short film about police violence needed a San Andreas sequence built from scratch.

A glitched golden armored figure holding a glowing sword against black, from Kara Güt's YLOD

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A dead PS3 is the excavation site in Kara Güt's YLOD

Screened in Matteo Bittanti's VRAL, the video uses Lance McDonald's Dark Souls debug mod to dig through what a console retains after play ends.

A low-polygon recreation of the Rear Window courtyard, with a figure standing in a lit apartment window

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Miles Buckle Makes Games You Can't Play

Miles Buckle rebuilds Rear Window, Amarcord and Hitchcock's Rope as late-'90s games nobody will ever play, and the impossibility is exactly the point.

Playlist

Watch Bruno Abib's Death in August [Members Only]

A drowning, a riot, and a bike ride through San Andreas

Performers seated at desks on a stage beneath two large projections of Red Dead Online, each showing a cowboy figure in a desert landscape

Performance

Kara Güt staged a two-person play inside Red Dead Online at a Dutch film festival

Two performers at a desk with controllers, walking their characters toward each other across a server whose weather and respawns nobody in the room controlled.

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Bonheur Suprême shot Homunculus, a documentary short, entirely inside Skyrim

Seventeen minutes of machinima about cruising as an "Arab" on gay dating apps—premiered at Visions du Réel, built from the mod community's tools.

indigenous history

Skawennati: Nurturing Indigenous imagination in virtual worlds

Mohawk artist Skawennati pioneers Indigenous presence in virtual spaces through groundbreaking projects like TimeTraveller™ and CyberPowWow, while leading initiatives to empower Indigenous youth in digital storytelling

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Jacky Connolly: Mining memories for suburban fantasies

: Artist Jacky Connolly transforms The Sims into a cinematic medium, crafting moody digital films that reimagine her Hudson Valley upbringing through leisurely suburban vignettes that blur the boundaries between memory, virtuality, and place.

virtual photography

Carson Lynn: Sculpting with virtual light

Artist Carson Lynn interrogates the boundaries of photography by capturing and manipulating virtual light within game spaces, creating works that question conventional definitions of image-making while exploring queerness in digital landscapes.

Online identity

Alfatih: Cracking open digital utopias

Artist Alfatih explores the liminal space between physical and digital identities through GTA machinima, AR filters, and wearable prosthetics, questioning the supposed neutrality of virtual spaces while creating works that blur the boundaries between fashion, gaming, and digital art.