CONCEPTUAL
Rhythm Zero Los Santos digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 112’ , 2019, Germany created by Jonas Blume What happens when an artist surrenders all agency in a game space designed for violence? In Rhythm Zero Los Santos (2019), Jonas Blume stages a durational performance inside Grand Theft Auto Online,
ARCADE
Standing before The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty), one is confronted by the chilling absurdity of purchasing the right to obliterate a city. In this interactive installation, Dutch Collective WERC lays bare the uneasy, visually seductive appeal of spectacular violence. The participant, posed as a player and a consumer,
ANIMATION
Call for Contributions: The Almanac of Artificial Seasons Edited By Delta Ark/World Engines Lab & Ilan Manouach w/ the support of Src Material (Seattle) and Echo Chamber (Brussels) What are the (synthetic, mental, etc) landscapes that emerge from the deregulation of climate, the acceleration of machine learning technologies and
3D ANIMATION
A Poet in the (Parallel) World digital video (3840 x 2160), color, sound, 7′ 45”, 2023, Italy. created by Luca Miranda, Riccardo Retez VRAL June 20-July 3 2025 A Poet in the (Parallel) World reimagines the relationship between poetry, photography, and virtual environments. Part of an ongoing series examining remakes
3D ANIMATION
Exhibition identity artwork: Keiken & Gabriel Massan, Uxkme / Morphogenic Angels: I know who I am, although I have forgotten who I am (2025) Console Spirituality Curated by LAN Party (Vienna Kim & Benoit Palop) Feral File June 24 2025 press release (abridged) Opening June 24th on Feral File, Console Spirituality
ANALOG
Described as an experimental work, Kent Sheely’s Frameworks (2025–ongoing) reanimates the visual grammar of early 3D video game modelling through a process that is simultaneously manual, sculptural, and painterly. Each composition begins with a stitched wireframe, embroidered directly onto raw canvas, evoking the skeletal geometry of polygonal modelling
3D ANIMATION
Intrusion digital video (3840 x 2160), color, sound, 15’ 42” seconds, 2021, Taiwan created by Poyuan Juan vral.org Intrusion draws upon the server migration incident that occurred between 2007 and 2011, when a large number of Chinese World of Warcraft players relocated to Taiwan servers following regulatory conflicts and
3D ANIMATION
The Analogy of Space digital video, color, sound, 12’, 2022, Ukraine created by Oleksandr Hoisan May 23-June 5 2025 vral.org The Analogy of Space (2022) is a 12-minute machinima made with/in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar Games, 2004), utilizing the CamHunt plugin to enable articulate, fluid cinematography
EVENT
Pascal Greco Nature Numérique: Photographier le jeu vidéo par Pascal Greco May 21 - June 5 2025 Musée Suisse du Jeu Rue du Château 11 1814 La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland (English below) Dans les années 1990, les mondes numériques ont souvent été pensés comme dissociés du réel : d’un côté, la
COLLABORATION
Total Refusal Sons and True Sons Sat 17.5.2025, 19:00 / HAU2 Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin, Germany Part of “A MAZE. / Berlin 2025 – 14th International Games and Playful Media Festival” Part of “IETM Berlin Plenary Meeting 2025” press release In Sons and True Sons, the Viennese media guerrilla
EVENT
The Way of the Future Single-channel UHD video (color), 2-channel sound, 8’ 02”, 2025, Palestine created by Firas Shehadeh May 9-22 2025 vral.org Set against the hauntingly desolate backdrop of The Last of Us video game, The Way of the Future follows a lone figure traversing a decayed territory
3D ANIMATION
Against the Will, Against Staying StillEsto Association 24 Zaimi str. 10683 Athens GreeceMay 15 - 18 2025curated by Babak Ahteshamipour featuring Erifili Doukeli, Matthew D. Gantt, Berenike Gregoor, Nichole Shinn, Captain Stavros, and Pauvre Terre Against the Will, Against Staying Still is a group exhibition curated by Babak Ahteshamipour that