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Slicing Up Eyeballs in a Surrealist Game
The startling 1929 surrealist silent film Un Chien Andalou made by Luis Buñuel in collaboration with Salvador Dalí is now a deeply unsettling video game.
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I Visited the Tate (in Minecraft)
The widely beloved open world video game of Minecraft will now offer a new activity for its players to explore: interactive artworks presented by the Tate, the third installment of which was just released last week.
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Artist Stan Douglas Resurrects Postwar Vancouver in an Interactive App
Ghosts hovering around an abandoned hotel and the streets of a neighborhood where the fences lean and paint crackles on the walls — these are your messengers to the past in Circa 1948.
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A Meditative Hunting Trip in an Interactive Story
Blood-soaked snow and the waxy green of conifers color the pensive landscape of The Last Hunt, an interactive story produced by the Digital Studio at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
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Centuries of Collecting the Curious and Macabre through Digital Storytelling
John Tradescant founded Britain's first museum in the 17th century with a collection of mermaid hands, natural history specimens, and a purported piece of the crucifix.
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A Bloody Video Game Ode on a Grecian Urn
Apotheon brings the classical world of ancient Greek pottery to life as a full-length animated video game.
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Time Traveling with Jayson Musson and Dave Chappelle
"Maybe all you needed was a little hip-hop pizzazz," says Jamel (James III) in the first episode of artist Jayson Musson's new time travel comedy series, The Adventures of Jamel.
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Mapping the Material and Social Histories of Photographs
The current Museum of Modern Art exhibition Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909–1949 is just one component of a four-year, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation–funded research project examining photographs not only as art, but as physical objects possessing a material and sociological
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A Virtual Island of Algorithmically Generated Art Museums
Manhattan may have an okay assortment of cultural institutions, but in Secret Habitat, a free game by Manchester-based indie video game developer Strangethink, users navigate an island that's home to 99 small museums.
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If Yayoi Kusama Designed a Video Game
Hohokum, a video game where you play a long, thin worm that changes color based on direction, isn’t just an art-ier version of Snakes.
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Navigate an Art Gallery Like a Video Game
It's not every day that you get to climb all over classic works for art — unless you're an unsupervised child — but a new online gallery lets you jump on the Koons and the Warhol.
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New Site for Data Visualization Lets You Share Statistics
From charts that show how swearing in public has changed over time to a graph tallying the crimes that have put people behind bars in New York, a new site is aiming to make data visualization more accessible and shareable.