Rising
The Teenage Fantasies of Nikima Jagudajev
The Austrian-Uzbek artist and choreographer has always made worlds with their own rules—from a childhood fantasy game to Like, a video game built from years of live performance.
Dance
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.
Creative Technology
Maya Man
At the intersection of dance and creative code, Maya Man creates browser-based experiences that transform human movement into data, examining our intimate relationships with technology.
Podcast
Salome Asega on cultivating the ecosystem of art and technology
Salome Asega told us about her hyper-real upbringing in Las Vegas, the trials of working within the uncharted territory of art and tech, and the power for participatory work to destabilize the long-held role of the artist.
Review
Bound makes a case for ballet in videogames
I was eight years old when I watched my first ballet performance, the Nutcracker, at an old, musty local theater. When the show ended, my mom asked if I wanted to be a ballerina, and to her surprise, I cringed. There was no way I could be a ballerina, I insisted. My body, short and stubby, could nev
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An enormous and beautiful Indian transmedia project comes to videogames
In 2013, the Sri Lankan newspaper The Sunday Times interviewed Avinash Kumar, an experimental VJ (video jockey) from India, about a project he was heading: a short story that became a graphic novel that became an album with his audio-visual collective BLOT!, which then became something else altogeth
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QWOP goes avant-garde in this silly dancing game
I’ll admit upfront that I’m a terrible dancer. Not the kind of terrible that is actually cute. I’m talking the real, awkward kind of terrible. I blame it on being tall. It’s just not easy to make limbs in these proportions move cohesively the way I’d like them to. Maybe that’s why An Evening of Mode
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Induction is like a gorgeous, time-warping trip through Monument Valley
This mind-bending pastel world defies language.
News
Unexpected videogame adverts celebrate women, fashion, and dance
A more fiercely feminine type of game marketing.
News
Puzzling art-novel Tree of Codes is this year’s most unpredictable ballet adaptation
Is it a novel? Is it a sculpture? No, it’s a ballet performance now.
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E-TRACES turns dance moves into data
Electronic Traces, a concept created by Spanish designer Lesia Trubat, plans to turn real dance moves into viewable files. By combining a pair of ballet shoes with e-textile microcontroller technology by LilyPad Arduino, the shoes register both the pressure and the movement of the dancer’s feet and
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German interactive shadow and light project puts you on display
Schnellebuntebilder builds something amazing inspired by dance.