Alice Wang
Alice Wang aims a first-person camera at cosmic architecture
Four films screened at the New Museum treat Mayan monuments and radio telescopes the way a game treats a level: a frame of reference to inhabit.
video art
supercut
Christian Marclay's The Clock is a game of looking
Twenty-four hours of film assembled entirely from clocks, and the behavior it produces is not watching at all but sightseeing, closer to a game than cinema.
machinima
A dead PS3 is the excavation site in Kara Güt's YLOD
Screened in Matteo Bittanti's VRAL, the video uses Lance McDonald's Dark Souls debug mod to dig through what a console retains after play ends.
Federico Solmi
Offenbach scores Federico Solmi's Unity studio footage
A process reel shows hand-painted surfaces wrapped onto 3D models — the game engine used as camera and stage, never as game.
video art
Lou Faroux on Digital Apocalypse, the Kardashians, and Hollywood's Closeted Golden Age
French artist Lou Faroux uses game engines and AI avatars to ask what the internet did to us—and to resurrect Hollywood's closeted Golden Age.
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.
oculus rift
The Oculus Shift
How Palmer Luckey’s headset is democratizing virtual art.