artificial intelligence

Installation view of Cezar Mocan, End of Signal, at SOLO Contemporary, Madrid

satellite

Cezar Mocan's AI satellite cannot get its story straight

Cezar Mocan built a satellite that cannot agree with itself about the night a toxic lake vanished, and its unreliability turns out to be a design decision.

The branching decision map in Tomo Kihara’s What Plays You? Game of Possible Lives

Podcast

One Pigeon Instead of Every Clock [Podcast]

An arcade cabinet that writes a stranger’s life, Christian Marclay’s 24-hour clock, and a pigeon romance rebuilt after its map switched off.

Podcast

The Cicada Does Not Know Summer [Podcast]

An arcade cabinet in Tokyo writes a stranger's life from census data, and the artist who built it explains why you are allowed to go back exactly once.

Helsinki Online

Every bench in Helsinki Online sits where it really is

Pietari Niinimäki is rebuilding the city as an open-world hangout, one tree at a time.

Rising

Tomo Kihara Will Not Sit Comfortably in One Chair

A cabinet in Tokyo runs a language model that writes a stranger's life from census data, and its maker is still deciding what to call the work he does.

Generative Art

Did Competition Dance Train Us to Perform for Algorithms?

Maya Man's StarQuest turns AI-generated dancers and Dance Moms into a mirror—asking whether commanding digital bodies is an act of cruelty or creation.

anthropology

Can AI-Powered Games Actually Teach Anthropology?

Anthropologist Michael Hoffman uses AI to transform ethnographic fieldwork into playable text adventures, bridging the gap between academic research and accessible learning.

artificial intelligence

Sahej Rahal's AI Instruments and Cooperative Creatures

What happens when artificial intelligence becomes a site for reimagining collective consciousness? Sahej Rahal creates speculative creatures and AI simulations that challenge Western notions of individual consciousness while drawing from centuries-old Indian philosophical traditions.

voice technology

Nicole He: Talking to computers

Nicole He fuses voice technology with playful programming to question how humans interact with computers, creating experiences that subvert expectations of AI interaction.

Virtual Reality

Jessica Shamash: Interactive Stories That Remember You Back

Jessica Shamash and Fable Studio blend VR and AI to create Lucy, an emotionally intelligent virtual character who remembers her interactions with viewers.me

Feature

How AI is shaping the future of interactive games

This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. In the 2013 film Her, protagonist Theodore plays a videogame where he is surprised by a wild, swearing artificially intelligent cartoon character. The foul-mouthed little alien launches into a conversation with Theodore, remaining stubbornly

Review

Event[0] will break your humanity

The ‘80s linger on today through the afterglow of throwback culture. Stranger Things is probably the most-discussed TV show this year, likely due to the fact that it feeds purely on our nostalgia for ‘80s cinema classics from the likes of Spielberg. Then there’s Everybody Wants Some, which is essent