2girls1comp’s latest mod for Grand Theft Auto V, PowerPoint for GTA V, does exactly what the title promises, with the sort of straight face usually reserved for procurement departments and hostage negotiations. It turns Grand Theft Auto Vinto presentation software. Los Santos, once a city of carjackings, botched heists,
On Tuesday 28 April and Wednesday 29 April, between 19.00 and 23.00 CEST, Jordy Veenstra will livestream Live Machinima Production in Grand Theft Auto V, a free two-part event on both YouTube and Twitch dedicated to the making of machinima in Los Santos. Veenstra, co-author with Matteo Bittanti
‘I am creating digital resting places in order to reorient the way in which we allocate our attention to digital media. I strongly believe the current “attention economy” has created a void where slow paced and methodical engagement with the digital media used to exist.’ (Joey Toro) The most compelling
Tropical Depression 3-channel video installation, 31 min 20 sec, Germany, 2025 created by Alexander Walmsley vral.org Watch now Across three synchronised screens, Tropical Depression enacts a peculiar form of planetary witnessing: the life and death of twenty-one cyclones that swept through the southern hemisphere during the 2023–2024 tropical
0-99. Design per gioco 10 April–May 10 2026 Via Borromeo 41 Cesano Maderno Milan, Italy During this year’s Milano Design Week, one exhibition has quietly stepped outside the gravitational pull of the city’s endless and frankly overwhelming itinerary. 0–99. Design per gioco, on view at Palazzo
On Thursday 16 April 2026, from 6:30 to 7:45 pm GMT, the Twentieth Century Society will host the online event Videogames as Architectural Archives: Twentieth-Century Architecture and Beyond. Framed around the relation between game design, architectural history, and cultural preservation, this online event considers how videogame environments might
Adrien Cornelissen has written a comprehensive and detailed overview of in-game photography for HACnumedia in both English and French. Here is an except: English textFrench text
In December 2025, Art21 released a new cluster of short films on Jacky Connolly as part of IRL/url, an ongoing series on the unstable conflation between physical and digital spaces. Directed and produced by Jonna McKone, Connolly’s three vertical (groan) videos — AI, Sims, Sound, and The Mineral Kingdom
The Milan Machinima Festival has opened the call for submissions for its 2027 edition, marking ten years of curatorial engagement with machinima, game-engine cinema, and moving-image practices shaped through virtual worlds. Since its inception, MMF has traced the aesthetic and critical trajectories of artists working with video game technologies, from
Art Games! March 10–14 2026 tiat, 151 Powell Street, San Francisco Art Games! was timed, pointedly, to coincide with the Game Developers Conference, the industry’s largest and loudest annual gathering held a few blocks away. That proximity was itself a curatorial argument: where GDC convened around business and
WORLDPLAY 7 to 13 June 2026 Commons Hub Hirschwang an der Rax, Austria official website the TL;DR version: WORLDPLAY is a pop-up physical hub for prefiguring and prehearsing radical futures through fiction, design, performance and play. Where/when: June 7–13, 2026, Commons Hub, Hirschwang an der Rax, Austria.
Cao Fei Dash April 9–September 28, 2026 Fondazione Prada Largo Isarco, 2 Milan, 20139 Italy Cao Fei’s Dash, opening at Fondazione Prada on 9 April 2026, arrives wrapped in the rhetoric of innovation but seems more interested in what technological progress leaves behind: displaced knowledge, altered perception, and