digital body
So It Goes
Lisa Jamhoury's Lossy is a memorial to the physical body in the age of the digital body—and a reckoning with what we lose when we let ourselves be averaged.
motion capture
ecology
The Places We're Losing Are Becoming Jakob Steensen's Worlds
Danish artist Jacob Kudsk Steensen turns volcanic vents, collapsed glaciers, and extinct birdsong into virtual worlds that blur science, grief, and living dream.
real-time performance
Go to Diskokina to See the Future of Live Performance
I’m exploring Diskokina, the new vanguard of live performance that blends commedia dell'arte and the club. Artists are using game engines to redefine what theater can be.
digital identity
Carrie Chen's Digital Avatars Bridge Past and Future
Carrie Chen uses AI, motion capture, and game engines to create digital self-portraits that span generations, interrogating identity across time and space.
World-Building
Keiken's Morphogenic Angels Imagines Post-Human Bodies 1,000 Years From Now
Keiken—Isabel Ramos, Hana Omori, and Tanya Cruz—merge performance, film, and game design to build optimistic post-human worlds 1,000 years in the future.
3D art
Harriet Davey's Glossy Aliens Reject Gaming's Binary World
Berlin-based artist Harriet Davey transforms game engines into laboratories for queer identity, creating luminescent alien creatures that challenge gaming's aesthetic norms.
motion capture
LaJuné McMillian: Towards motion witnessing
Artist LaJuné McMillian transforms motion capture into "motion witnessing" through their Black Movement Library project, creating a vital archive of Black performers while challenging the biases inherent in immersive technologies.
motion capture
The Rolfes Brothers put the live in livestream
Through real-time digital performances that meld VR and motion capture, brothers Sam and Andy Rolfes craft visceral experiences that transform how bodies move between physical and virtual spaces.
digital art
Keiken: Towards new collective belief through CGI cinema
Art collective Keiken creates speculative futures in Unreal Engine, examining digital identity and climate change through magical realist CGI narratives and virtual performances.
News
A quick update from the uncanny valley, courtesy of this Scottish Mafioso
“Just blink if yer gettin’ this.”
News
New life-like avatars could leave some models out of a job
Sure, being a supermodel might not sound like the worst job ever. In the 90’s, Linda Evangelista famously said that she wouldn’t even get out of bed for less than $10,000. But behind every glamorous photo shoot littered with buckets of money, lies the all too real possibility of a short-lived career