Art
Juan Covelli rebuilds Colombia’s toppled monuments
Watching the 2021 strike from Mexico, the artist had strangers photograph defaced statues and empty plinths.
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interactive art
Nick Murray: The intimacy and expanse of interactive narrative
Game designer Nick Murray crafts intimate interactive experiences that bridge poetry, music, and digital art to examine the complex emotions of life mediated by technology.
game design
Rui Hu: The infinite futures of games
Artist Rui Hu blends game engines, installation art, and memory to examine how virtual spaces infiltrate our physical world.
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Memories of a failing relationship are made beautiful in Ephemera
Plenty of things in life have expiration dates: cartons of milk, your passport, antiperspirants. After a week in the fridge, you should really retire that open bottle of wine. Relationships, on the other hand, don’t usually come marked with an end date. You might see the end coming from a ways away,
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A landscape of memory; returning to Shadow of the Colossus
This article is part of PS2 Week, a full week celebrating the 2000 PlayStation 2 console. To see other articles, go here. /// It’s hard to calculate the distance from the clifftop to the sea below. My body, my eyes, the trembling in my legs tells me it is far, too far. Yet I can make out the marblin
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Lieve Oma, a poetic game about appreciating your grandma
Dedicated to grandmas everywhere, Lieve Oma (translated from the Dutch as “Dear Grandma”) is a game that speaks to the way we come to associate places in the world with the loved ones we once shared them with. Creator Florian Veltman has now released it on itch.io after having spent the past few mon
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The bot that dreams of forgotten videogames
Memory and videogames is a complicated crossroads. Not least because there’s a minimum of three types of memory meeting at this particular intersection. The most obvious one is personal memory: we remember the games we played over the years and attach emotions, physical locations, the music we were
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Anamorphine and the rise of the first-person narrative game
Georges Méliès discovered filmmaking’s jump cut by accident. By cutting out some of the frames in a single, still camera shot and splicing the two separate parts, it seemed as if objects were teleporting through space when watched back in real-time. In his 1898 short The Temptation of St. Anthony, h
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Rememoried is a beguiling take on videogame dreams
Few games tackle dreams with the grace of Rememoried.
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The rhythm game genre is about to get a whole lot darker
You were lured in by the sight of a skeleton astronaut, weren’t you? Or is that just me? The idea of an astronaut left to rot in space grips me as one of the horrors of the future. At the moment, as far as public records show, there are no dead people floating around in space. But we have to suppose
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Waking up in a dream: Rememoried’s creator on switching up the "walking simulator"
Remembering dreams. Dreaming memories.
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Memory Burn wants you to imagine digital death. That’s real enough.
The Sims as a series of macabre social experiments.