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Puzzling art-novel Tree of Codes is this year’s most unpredictable ballet adaptation
Is it a novel? Is it a sculpture? No, it’s a ballet performance now.
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Murder mysteries don’t get much stranger than this
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die (PC, XBOX ONE) BY ACCESS GAMES Any argument in favor of the existence of cult videogame directors should probably start and end with SWERY. This excitable man from
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Discover the hollow remnants of capitalism’s "greatness" in Luxury $imulator
Those who contribute the least to the world’s downfall will suffer the most.
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Human Resource Machine proposes a grim alternative to replacing workers with robots
What will you do when the robots take your job? It’s only a matter of time until we’re all melted down and shoveled into vats as our flesh becomes a more valuable resource than our labor. So it’s about time you start planning ahead for your (f)unemployment. Your options are severely limited to 1) le
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An art gallery so millennial that it’s basically an orgy of niche internet spaces
Interactive artists let loose.
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Windows93 is the operating system that internet culture really wants
Sometimes the internet guffs out material so zany that I remember why I like it. This month it’s a new website titled WINDOWS93 that’s providing this service. It transports you back to the 1990s through a wormhole made of broken memories. Starting up as if it were Windows 95—albeit with the nostalgi
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Knyttan makes personal fashion as easy as dressing a videogame avatar
Knyttan is a fashion startup or, if you would prefer a cultural reference, a 21st century incarnation of Cher’s closet in the opening scenes of the 1995 teen classic Clueless. In practice, the film’s build-your-own-wardrobe app looks an awful lot like the maker movement’s version of fashion design.
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If you think hide-and-seek is child’s play then you haven’t played Badblood
Search and destroy.
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The deformed, lonely bodies of Kyttenjanae’s colorful worlds
Kyttenjanae depicts loneliness and sickness in an unusual way. It’s almost always as a rainbow-flavored mix of gross-out and grace. The signature animated art that she shares on her Tumblr page is recognizable for the eyeless humanoids that ebb and flow as if made of pink and polychromatic liquids.
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Goldi mixes fairy tales and political philosophy, because why not
At the time of his death in 1527, the political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli had never stated his position on works being placed in the public domain. Fair enough: “public domain,” as presently constituted, was not an idea in Machiavelli’s time. One can, however, suspect that the author of The Se
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Chill out with an astronaut’s view of the world in Planetarium
Send a person to the Moon and they’ll come back with stories about the Earth. Why is that? All the scientific guff aside, the Moon isn’t all that interesting; it’s a rock with hardly anything on it besides large, dark, basaltic plains. But what the Moon does offer is a brilliant view of the Earth an
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Madison Square Park’s latest trees are mirages made of mirrors and metal
Trees where there are none.