Virtual Reality - Killscreen

A pale green room with a single unmade bed under hanging curtains, from Pierre Moulin's VR film After the Shell

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After the Shell Turns a Near-Death Experience Into VR

Pierre Moulin's 360-degree film premieres in the Kaohsiung Film Festival's XR Competition, with resin sculptures pulled out of its world.

A pale, overgrown virtual landscape with ruins from the virtual world Strangeways

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NewImages Festival Opens Submissions for Virtual Worlds

The Paris festival’s competition judges worlds built inside VRChat, Roblox and Fortnite Creative, with a €3,000 award and free entry.

A visitor rests a hand on a glowing red orb in a dark room where a tunnel and a human figure are projected as clouds of blue-white points.

Ugo Arsac

Ugo Arsac Shows Cannes Winner KATÁBASIS at Onassis ONX

The gaze-steered documentary, built from 3D scans of New York's tunnels, had its U.S. debut in the group show What Remains.

Visitors sit on tree stumps watching a large screen in the dimly lit Undershed gallery, with grass and branches on the floor

SENTIENTS

At Watershed, six teenagers curated the games on show

SENTIENTS just closed at Undershed, with work by Marshmallow Laser Feast, David OReilly, Alice Bucknell, Alan Kwan and Demelza Kooij.

choreography

When you can no longer close the club, you build one

Sobriety and injury cost Ambrose Trataris the nightclub, so they rebuilt it inside VRChat, then staged it as a dance work where one body puppets another.

Kaleidoscopic projection with a human silhouette at its center, from Saya Woolfalk's Floating World of the Cloud Quilt

museum

Seventeen artists rethink our place on earth at the Frist

Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman brings game-engine worlds by Ian Cheng and Jakob Kudsk Steensen to Nashville, plus an MIT Press catalogue.

AI consciousness

The Inner Lives of Lawrence Lek's Emotional AI

Lawrence Lek builds virtual worlds where AI develops consciousness, self-driving cars attend therapy, and surveillance systems dream of being wild foxes.

Virtual Reality

alpha_rats: Virtual reality is a dream state

Through VR experiences like Celestial Reactors, artist alpha_rats examines humanity's relationship with technology and nature while drawing inspiration from Soviet space race aesthetics and ecological concerns.

game design

Prashast Thapan: To live and die

Through his upcoming game "1000 Deaths," designer Prashast Thapan examines mortality and perspective by having players cycle through multiple lives in condensed 15-minute experiences.

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.

Virtual Reality

Uzoma Orji:The spiritual undertones of virtual reality

Through virtual reality, photography, and digital installations, Nigerian artist Uzoma Orji examines how technology can reconnect us with ancestral practices and reimagine African futures.

digital art

Will Robertson and Alfredo Salazar-Caro: Transcending the confines of a museum

Two art school friends transformed their frustration with traditional institutions into DiMoDA, a groundbreaking virtual reality museum that challenges conventional exhibition spaces while showcasing cutting-edge digital art.