Displaced digital video/machinima, 10 min, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates, 2024 created by Nagham El-Khoury Displaced places a recorded conversation between Nagham El-Khoury and her mother within the virtual environments of Final Fantasy XIV: Online. Choosing to speak Arabic, El-Khoury’s mother recalls a childhood repeatedly disrupted
Mitchell F. Chan, Workers’ Playtime 10 October–21 November 2026 DE SARTHE 2/F, Block A, Vita Tower, 29 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong Tuesday–Saturday, 11 am–7 pm Mitchell F. Chan turns Hong Kong’s DE SARTHE into an arcade rigged against its players, where playing becomes
In a new game published by Fantasia Malware, a sentient house confronts the creatures living in its interior and the consequences of a history it cannot remember. Gabriel Helfenstein turns architecture into an anatomy of inherited trauma, and leaves room for repair. A house wakes up. It has no legs
Hack the Game: Game Art, Subversive Practices and Videogame Imaginaries November 9–11, 2026 Al-Fakhar Gallery, Institut National des Beaux-Arts, Tétouan, Morocco Opening: Monday, November 9, 6 p.m. Visiting hours: Tuesday, November 10, and Wednesday, November 11, 2–6 p.m. Colloquium: November 10–11, 2026 Conference
Japanese publisher BNN will release NEW GAME ART: New Art and Practices around Games (ニューゲームアート ゲームをめぐる新しい芸術とその実践) on November 18, 2026. Edited by Yusuke Shono and game journalist Hajime Kasai, the 224-page volume surveys 357 international works across twenty chapters, accompanied by ten critical essays from artists, scholars and game
Yuliya Kozhemyako’s experimental video game Yuha’s Nightmares. Episode One: Catastrophe will launch on Steam on November 10, 2026, following more than six years of development. Previously featured on GameScenes in August 2025, the project transforms the artist’s recurring dreams into a first-person psychological adventure where unstable
MÉLANIE’S FAVOUR digital video/machinima, color, sound, 20 min 35 sec, 2026, France created by Mélanie Courtinat vral.org Recorded inside FromSoftware’s Elden Ring (2022), MÉLANIE’S FAVOUR (2026) follows player Celnadmery3480 through six boss encounters. The avatar carries Courtinat’s custom-modded shield, shaped like a flower
The Overkill festival: Dream No Return November 26–29, 2026 Sickhouse Oldenzaalsestraat 128 7514 DS Enschede, The Netherlands A fly’s life is short, and in Time Flies (2025), that biological fact becomes the game’s governing rule. Developed by Swiss animator Michael Frei and programmer Raphaël Munoz, the game
Nao Usami Resolution of Wounded Skin October 23–December 20, 2026BlackBoxKyoto, Kyoto, Japan An artist talk with Usami and media art historian MA Jung-Yeon, Professor at Kansai University, is scheduled for Saturday, November 21, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., with in-person attendance and online streaming
The Shenzhen-based artist’s VR sculptures have entered a browser-based game. Their appearance in a virtual amusement park raises questions about how collecting changes our encounter with sculpture. At the entrance to SPACE M, a transparent container holds dozens of purple boxes. Visitors can “OPEN A BLIND BOX”
Waldenstein 1 and Waldenstein 2 Waldenstein 1 single-channel 3D animation, 6 min 21 sec, filmed inside theHunter: Call of the Wild, Dear Esther, Miscreated, and Asemblance, 2018, United States of America Waldenstein 2 single-channel 3D animation, 6 min 18 sec, filmed inside Farming Simulator 17, Final Fantasy XV,
Pixelated: Mike Whiting September 3 2026–June 5, 2027 Utah State University’s Logan and Price campuses. The exhibition is free and open to the public. On Wednesday, October 21, 2026, Whiting will lead a guided Walk and Talk tour of the Logan installations, beginning at 12:15 p.m.