News
At Wonderville, nine games replaced the gamepad entirely
The second annual Alt.Ctrl Festival ran this past summer in Bushwick
Performance
Gray Area
SFEMF's 25th anniversary gala put Carl Stone on the bill
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival took over Gray Area on Aug. 22 with Kush Arora, Luciano Chessa, Wobbly and Sly Ida.
OTHERWORLDS
OTHERWORLDS won A MAZE's Human Human Machine Award
Sophia Bulgakova's mixed-reality ritual, drawn from Ukrainian pagan practice, took the Berlin festival's prize for collective presence.
Gray Area
Latvian bogs became a live instrument at Gray Area
Pierce Warnecke and Matthew Biederman performed Phytomorphic Topologies in San Francisco on Aug. 21, playing photogrammetry and field recordings in real time.
Kevin Peter He
A sculptural camera turns a game engine into cinema
Kevin Peter He and Dan Gorelick staged PASSAGE at an off-SIGGRAPH night in LA—visuals and score as two instruments answering each other live.
Letta Shtohryn
When the mocap suit drifts, the drift becomes choreography
Letta Shtohryn's live XR performance starts at a 5,000-year-old Maltese temple and ends with an avatar slipping loose from the body driving it.
Performance
Kara Güt staged a two-person play inside Red Dead Online at a Dutch film festival
Two performers at a desk with controllers, walking their characters toward each other across a server whose weather and respawns nobody in the room controlled.
Performance
Natalie Paneng's quirky and cool virtual universe
Johannesburg-based artist Natalie Paneng blends theater, digital art, and performance to create playful virtual worlds that examine online identity and self-presentation.
Public Art
Chlöe Bass: Without participation, the public falls apart
Through installations like "Wayfinding" and "The Book of Everyday Instruction," multidisciplinary artist Chloë Bass examines how public participation and intimate encounters shape our understanding of shared spaces and human connection.
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.
Creative Technology
Maya Man
At the intersection of dance and creative code, Maya Man creates browser-based experiences that transform human movement into data, examining our intimate relationships with technology.
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.