What stays with you is the noise. The image? Not so much. After all, most of the screen is occupied by negative space: a 16:9 slab of black, as if the monitor had nodded off, punctured by a few pale specks that resolve, if you pay attention, into bodies.
Side Quest for the Real: live action, art, and social fictions in Geneva December 3–21, 2025 Curated by Christian Bili and Samuel Wagen-Magnon Le Commun, Geneva, Switzerland For the Win (FTW) presents the second edition of Art, jeu & société, an ambitious initiative dedicated to artistic practices engaging with
A dark-skinned avatar, seen from behind in a white tank top, sits exactly where the polished concrete floor meets a painted horizon. In front of him the city has slipped its grid. Freeway ramps float at odd angles, billboards hang without supports, staircases rise into nothing. Between fragments of stucco
Camilo Restrepo’s Space invaders 1 (2024) and Space invaders 1418 (2024) lift the visual grammar of Taito’s 1978 arcade shooter and plug it into the long, unfinished story of Colombia’s narco-wars and their ecological afterlives. Both large vertical works were presented in the solo exhibition Cocaine Hippos
Accidents digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 17’, 2025, Hong Kong created by Edwin Lo December 5–18 2025 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org Set inside the simulated Hong Kong of Sleeping Dogs (2012), Accidents is an observational machinima about a city that keeps running through failure. Lo
Designing the Infinite: Virtual Worldbuilding in Art & Gaming December 6, 2025–April 12, 2026 California Center for the Arts Museum At the California Center for the Arts, Escondido 340 North Escondido Boulevard Escondido, California 92025 Designing the Infinite: Virtual Worldbuilding in Art & Gaming brings together an international group
AI and the Paradox of Agency March 13, 2026–January 17, 2027 Opening: March 13, 5pm–12am, with talks and presentations, tours, workshop, DJ and bar Bildmuseet at Umeå University Östra Strandgatan 30B Umeå, 903 33 Sweden From March 13, 2026 to January 17, 2027, Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden turns
Briar Dickey, Max Haiven, Konstanze N’Guessan, Sarah Thorne, Thomas Spies invite submissions for a special issue of Eludamos titled What are Antifascist Games? Below is the full call for papers: “In many places around the world, the fascist threat is rising. Far right, neonationalist and ultra-conservative parties, politicians, and
CORE DUMP 4K digital video, color, sound, 6’ 06”, 2024/2025, Israel/Germany created by Alona Rodeh November 21–December 4 2025 vral.org CORE DUMP is a born-digital CGI short that depicts a surreal swarm of drones scavenging for e-waste. Its title borrows from computing, where a “core dump”
Adam Martin Your Demise July 10 – August 10, 2025 Giselle’s Books Marseille, France The title comes across like a threat addressed directly to the visitor: Your Demise. Adam Martin’s exhibition at Giselle’s Books in Marseille, France takes that second–person address seriously, treating everyone who enters as
Press ‘H’ near Lago Zancudo and Grand Theft Auto V starts to behave strangely. The mission markers, heists and side quests recede; instead, an audio essay fades in and will not go away. The game’s camera steers you through reeds and mud, scripted events punctuate the trip, and a
Allen-Golder Carpenter Same Things Make Us Laugh, Make Us Cry Pt. 2, Witness, Act 1: Black Noise Derosia, New York September 10 – November 10 2025 Walk into Derosia for Same Things Make Us Laugh, Make Us Cry Pt. 2, Witness, Act 1: Black Noise and you are met, first of