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Guy Maddin's Algorithmic Cinema Resurrects Lost Silent Films
The director's latest project with the National Film Board of Canada shuffles scenes into a one-time viewing experience.
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A Collection of Magical Realist Games for Your Smartphone
Returning after a 20 year break, the Triennale International Exhibition, which is centered at the Triennale Museum in Milan, has a new media update.
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Sin Like It’s the 16th Century in a Game that Remixes Renaissance Art
Forgive me, for I have sinned. I peeped at a lady's ankle through an open window and carved an idol in my own image.
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The 18th-Century Anatomist Who Celebrated Life with Dioramas of Death
Like his anatomist peers, 18th-century Dutch scientist Frederik Ruysch preserved human and animal specimens for study, either dried or in jars.
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Guggenheim Ventures into the Future with Its Own Cryptocurrency
The Guggenheim’s latest online exhibition is an indulgent science fiction that brings the future to the present.
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A Digital Reboot of Félix González-Torres's Memorial to Victims of Gun Violence
Artworld polymath Greg Allen has made an odd, ritualistic, perhaps metaphorical memorial.
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Buildings Get Erected in an Architectural Dating Game
"If you want to stain me, come to 2689 Santa Fresca Blvd." So reads the sext I have just received from BeautifullyStained, a staircase with a wooden railing that was, indeed, beautifully stained.
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Resurrecting the First VR Installation to Cross the Atlantic
HONG KONG — Maurice Benayoun’s new show at the Osage Gallery in Hong Kong, Just Dig It, consists of five latticed, skeletal metal sculptures capped by circular projector screens showing various 2D projections.
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A Video Game That Tailors Its Terrors to Your Anxiety
"Go to your happy place," the game attendant told me as the digital kitchen on my screen filled with milk and I was drowning.
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In ‘Transparent,’ the Dangers of Apathy in Weimar Germany’s Queer Culture
They’re on top of the world: partying, popular, queer kids with everything going for them. This is not 1960s San Francisco or 1980s New York or today’s internet communities: it’s 1933 in Weimar Berlin.
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An App Turns the Failures of Image Recognition into Whimsical Text
When I was a little girl, I always wondered what my Teddy Ruxpin mechanical bear would say if there wasn't a cassette tape commanding his interactions with me.
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Honoring Nepal's Cultural Heritage One Year After Its Catastrophic Quake
To coincide with the one-year anniversary of the April 25, 2015, earthquake in Nepal, the Rubin Museum of Art is launching a series of commemorative projects, including an online exhibition that celebrates the unique culture of the region.