DUSKDOG
A broken artificial sun rations the light in DUSKDOG
ExoDive's frozen exploration game looks carved from PS1 polygons, and the comments keep mistaking it for anything but the Unreal Engine 5 project it is.
Unreal Engine
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.
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.
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.
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.
live coding
Indira Ardolic's Live-Coding Performances Turn Game Engines Into Instruments
Indira Ardolic uses game engines to create audio-reactive environments for live-coding performances, where bugs and glitches become part of the show.
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.
environmental art
Sam Ghantous Finds Silicon Valley in a Sand Trap
Sam Ghantous traces silica from North Carolina mines to GPUs and golf courses, revealing the geological origins of our digital obsessions through video art.
artificial intelligence
Sahej Rahal's AI Instruments and Cooperative Creatures
What happens when artificial intelligence becomes a site for reimagining collective consciousness? Sahej Rahal creates speculative creatures and AI simulations that challenge Western notions of individual consciousness while drawing from centuries-old Indian philosophical traditions.
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.