Lou Fauroux
Lou Fauroux's WhatRemains, Genesis screens at MUTEK Forum
Set in 2048, the film gives Google a cure for death — until hackers leak the source code to everyone. In Montreal Wednesday, with a Q&A to follow.
speculative fiction
ecological art
What Would You Do If You Had to Find the Last Surviving Bees?
The Athens-based artist Kyriaki Goni on a woven basket gifted to her at 18, the ritual of telling bees about deaths and births, and building a speculative video game set in a near-future Aegean.
speculative fiction
Is Project Hail Mary secretly a game designer's novel?
I came to Andy Weir expecting sci-fi dogmatism and found a writer who thinks like a game designer — mystery as mechanic, worldbuilding as a systems problem.
CGI noir
Five Behind-the-Scenes Observations from Our Lawrence Lek Interview
Lawrence Lek creates cinematic game worlds that blur fiction and reality, using AI aesthetics and virtual architecture to examine our technological present.
simulation
Francis Tseng: Towards just futures through simulation
Through games and simulations, Francis Tseng examines how technology shapes power structures and imagines more equitable futures.
Article
The fork in the road
Wolfenstein: The New Order and the history of alternate histories.
News
Belladonna is a gothic tale of queer love
The bane of female-female relationships? The male ego.