Saskia Wilson-Brown: Investigating the experience of scent
Saskia Wilson-Brown's Institute of Art and Olfaction challenges perfume industry gatekeeping while championing scent as a powerful yet subtle artistic medium.
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Soft Body helps you find serenity among chaos
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Soft Body (PC, PlayStation 4) BY ZEKE VIRANT The words “bullet-hell” may not immediately call calm and tranquility to mind. But meditative app/game Soft Body is here to fix that. Combining the
Meditating on Kentucky Route Zero
The first moment that Kentucky Route Zero (2013) throws a surreal curveball at you feels like a wake-up call. A character you’ve just met has finished fixing a TV, which doesn’t focus the picture on the screen as you expect, but somehow switches the barn outside the nearby window for a cave entrance
The biofeedback games made to improve our well-being
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. When Space Invaders dropped into Japanese arcades, the alien shooting gallery was such a phenomenon that the 100 yen piece, the equivalent of an American quarter, became a rarity. The games action was straightforward and exacting, and the na