Awakening Armageddon Plan digital video/machinima, color, sound, 12 min 06 sec, 2026, Hong Kong created by Wai-Keung Hui vral.org In 2025, newly declassified British government files disclosed a contingency plan drawn up in 1989 to evacuate millions of Hong Kong residents before the 1997 handover. Officials called
F(R)ICTION: art et jeux 8th ELEKTRA International Digital Art Biennale Curated by Lynn Hughes and Ida Toft October 15–November 15, 2026 Arsenal art contemporain Montréal 2020 rue William, Montréal, Québec The exhibition is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday
essential information Escape > Control > Play: The Art of the Video Game Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University URBN Annex, 3401 Filbert Street, Philadelphia October 13–December 12, 2026 Opening reception: October 15, 5:00–7:30 p.m Admission is free On October 13, Philadelphia’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery
Space_invaders.exe video and video game-based moving image, colour and black-and-white, sound, single screen, 11 min, The Netherlands / Syria, 2024 created by Malaz Usta space_invaders.exe places the visual grammar of arcade threat alongside the bureaucratic demand that displaced people account for themselves. The film
Dreamland: Reconstructing Absent Presence Curated by Wang Xiaoyong and Ren Yue Central Art Museum, Hangzhou September 16–November 16, 2026 Central Art Museum, Hall A, L3, Hangzhou Center 150 Zhanlan East Road, Gongshu District, Hangzhou Rhett Tsai’s Yesterday’s Skybox: NBA LIVE 2005 1-On-1 System Modification (2026)
Grand Theft Auto: Crime et architecture, Angelo Careri, with a preface by Mathieu Triclot and iconography by Leonardo Magrelli. Façonnage Éditions, 2026. 232 pages, €22. ISBN 978-2-491961-22-0. Published in French. Review copy supplied by the author. All images courtesy of Façonnage Éditions. The first thing Grand
Background, Action! digital video/machinima, 4 min 30 sec, sound by Perclane, 2026, Russia Created by Natalie Maximova Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org Background, Action! extends Natalie Maximova’s out-of-bounds practice into the production infrastructure of open-world games. Where The Edge of the World (2021) pursued
Instance Dungeons: Gray Zone runs through November 15, 2026, at the National Asian Culture Center, 38 Munhwajeondang-ro, Dong-gu, Gwangju, South Korea, as part of the Pavilion Project accompanying the 16th Gwangju Biennale’s main exhibition, You Must Change Your Life, directed by Ho Tzu Nyen with curators Che
Dates: 10 October–8 November 2026 City Arles, France Format City-wide festival: exhibitions, performances, talks, screenings, workshops, game jam and related activity Curator: Vincent Moncho Official website A ski station in Russia, a sex-cam website, a ruined multiplayer map, an island seen from above, a field where wheat
FILE São Paulo 2026: Inter-creativity runs through 11 October 2026 at the FIESP Cultural Center, Avenida Paulista 1313, opposite Trianon-MASP station in São Paulo, Brazil. The Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Admission is free and no
Nina Davies and 2girls1comp: The Inexorable Non-Player Character September 5, 2026, 4:00 p.m. September 6, 2026, 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. Dance House Helsinki, Cable Factory Kaapeliaukio 3 00180 Helsinki, Finland Duration: 30 minutes Admission: free, advance reservation available Meeting point: Dance House
Kent Sheely has published Crime Time (2026), a new artist book collecting screenshots and digital collages produced during a decade spent inside Grand Theft Auto V Online. Released through Lulu on August 9, the 87-page, full-color paperback has a square format (8.5 × 8.5 inches) and brings