digital art
PAMM’s first digital art commissions go to 21 artists
750 submissions from 50 countries came down to a cohort making video games, net art and CGI film across Latin America, the Caribbean and the African Diaspora.
museum
Larry Achiampong
Four decades of consoles move into the museum
Larry Achiampong's The Gaming Room furnishes Pixel Pioneers at the Boijmans with a playable living room—games as memory, kinship and diaspora.
net art
SFMOMA and ZKM jointly acquire Eden.Garden 1.0, 25 years after its debut
The 2001 net artwork grows a 3D Garden of Eden out of any website's HTML—and it took a restoration at ZKM to make it collectible at all.
game design
Gayatri Kodikal: Excavating the ruins of history, time, and play
Artist Gayatri Kodikal transforms an archaeological mystery of a severed hand into an immersive game installation that challenges Western notions of time and history while weaving together colonial narratives, resistance stories, and South Asian perspectives.
interactive art
Body, Spirit, Code: Salome Asega's Participatory Digital Art
Artist and educator Salome Asega creates embodied digital experiences that bridge technology with cultural heritage, while building inclusive tech education spaces through her work at POWRPLNT and the Ford Foundation.
experimental
Milan & Neilson Koerner-Safrata: The myth and poetry of game engines
In discussing their influences, SCRNPRNT's Milan and Neilson Koerner-Safrata bridge the worlds of experimental games and contemporary art, exploring how anxiety, flow states, and institutional critique can manifest through interactive experiences.
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An exhibit for admiring the labyrinthian cityscapes of anime architecture
When I visited Tokyo, Japan earlier this year for the first time, I was struck by its block-by-block awe-inspiring architecture. From the woven-like walls of the Daikanyama T-Site bookstore, or the mirrored, cave-like entrance to the Tokyu Plaza Building on the cusp of Omotesando and Harajuku, Japan
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The MADE, or the importance of games console history you can touch
About 30 miles northeast of the Frank Gehry-designed campuses and complexes where competing cloud environments are designed, there’s an Oakland museum full of game cartridges. You can see the sign from the highway: The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE). That the sign is visible from the
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Waiting Rooms is a building-sized game about the struggles of bureaucracy
When I left the Rubin Museum of Art’s Waiting Rooms exhibit, I had 14 yellow tickets, 24 pennies, and a form with a picture of a unicorn on it in my pocket. It sounds like the random hodgepodge of garbage a quirky Tina Fey character might carry, yes, but within the world of the exhibit, it was a ver
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The beautiful destruction of old-school malware
Malware. Blech! We hate malware. And so we should—deleting files, maliciously clogging up our desktops, turning our browsers into never-ending adverts. But it’s so boring and irritating these days. At least back in the 1980s and 1990s you could take a step back and admire both the technical and arti