Diana Poulsen

Glue Gun

Are developers cut-and-pasting a new canon of crossovers? Diana Poulsen traces the art of collage from Cubism to World of Warcraft.

Stray From the Path

The Path capitalizes on the horror of imagined terrors in a no-win journey; contemporary art like Jeremy Blake’s Winchester Trilogy and Hein’s Invisible Labyrinth have similarly terrifying and labyrinthine aspects.

Our Future Past

What do Halo and Portal have to do with 1950s universitites? They tell a surprisingly similar story through the hard lines of Brutalist architecture.

Playing Tricks

We have come to expect everything from gimmicky machinations to pure innovation in videogames. But are they part of a broader historical tradition? Diana Poulsen delves into the Baroque to shed light on gaming’s modern tricks.