Where Are You, Samuel? digital video/machinima, color, sound, 13 min, 2024, Italy Created by Samuele Leogrande vral.org In Where Are You, Samuel?, a lost soul wanders through corrupted digital terrains, guided by a disembodied voice that promises a path home while drawing him deeper into memory, grief, and
Tampere University / Games As Art Center October 9–11, 2026 | Tampere, Finland (fully hybrid) Submission deadline: July 1, 2026 Submit here or email: info@gamesasartcenter.com Tampere University and the Games As Art Center invite submissions of artistic games for the inaugural Games As Art Festival, October 9–11, 2026.
Nothing to Tell digital video/machinima, 20 min, Italy 2025 created by Fabrizio Condino Nothing to Tell is an experimental short that reworks the world of Cyberpunk 2077 into a study of alienation, repetition, and mental disintegration. Following Daniel through an oppressive cycle of waking, drifting, drinking, and self-arming, the
art bit – Contemporary Art & Indie Game Culture – #6: Game Playing Society runs from 16 May to 12 July 2026 at Hotel Anteroom Kyoto, Gallery 9.5, 7 Higashikujo Aketa-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto. Opening hours are 10:00–20:00. Admission is free. A reception and workshop are planned for 16
Kepler Interactive has launched Reset Magazine Issue 1, a large-format print publication devoted to video games as contemporary culture. Available for pre-order through Kepler’s online store and shipping from late May 2026, the debut issue runs 200 pages, measures 240 × 310 mm, and appears in three reverse-cover variants devoted
Façonnage Éditions has announced the release of Angelo Careri’s first book, Grand Theft Auto – Crime et architecture, a French-language long essay devoted to one of the most commercially dominant, culturally abrasive, and theoretically productive videogame series of the last three decades. Published in the Everglades collection, the book includes
A conversation between Matteo Bittanti and Janne Schimmel has been published on the Permanent Beta Network website. Titled Repair as Refusal: Janne Schimmel and the Phantoms of Gaming Hardware, the conversation examines Schimmel’s sculptural practice through haunted consoles, obsolete devices, repair culture, homebrew communities, and the material afterlives of
About fifteen minutes into a run as Sammy the caterpillar, the phone can go on your lap. The thumb has finished its work. You are still technically playing. Flower (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025) is Ed Atkins’s anti-memoir, built from accumulated preferences, bodily admissions, and things he desperately craves. Not quite
Magic Circles Digital video, color, sound, 22 min 42 sec, 2024–25 Canada. Online laboratory, four-channel video series, and pop-up exhibition. Produced by Sojung Bahng. Part of the MetaMetaverse SSHRC Insight Development program. Companion exhibition: Distribution of the Sensorial, Zentrum für Netzkunst, Berlin, October 2025. Directed by Gabriel Menotti The
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