For artist Lu Yang, the medium of video games becomes a vehicle for awakening, translating Buddhist philosophy into digital form. The virtual world, as Lu describes, is a “container,” a temporary vessel through which consciousness flows.

Sunday’s theft at the Louvre has reignited urgent questions about how, and why, museums protect their collections. Emerging forms of art crime demand an ethical reckoning: a willingness to ask whether these objects should still be here at all.

Entering the Lenzner Gallery at Pitzer College feels like stepping into artist Carmen Argote’s walk-in closet.

When you use machine learning to create an algorithm that writes corny but annoyingly catchy raps about a variety of topics, that's a Large Lin-Manuel Miranda Model, or LLMMM

This is an incredible radar loop of #Melissa. So appreciate Brian’s efforts to share this radar data from tropical cyclones around the world.

Genndy Tartakovsky shared test footage from his film ‘The Black Knight’. It follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor. Sony isn't sure there's an audience for the film and haven’t greenlit it yet. After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!

JOB: Assistant Professor, Global Ancient Art, Architecture, Material Culture https://arthist.net/archive/50717

it's time again to send us your Pico-8 projects, with a chance to be featured on our Pico-8 residency cabinet for the Fall season applications close on August 24, 11:59pm EST, so get them in now! tinyurl.com/Pico8Cabinet...

The more I learn about sustainable design, the more I realize my Nina (godmother) was PUNK AF! #abuelitasArePunk #rasquache #sustainability #design #playmakelearn2025

another really important bundle and this goes to supporting people that could very much need it. seeing the bs in the qrts maybe help out and show this some love too!!! 💕💖🫶🔥

Paper cutter from The Baltimore Afro American Newspaper https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.203

We attended in person at Dizzy Spell in Denver, CO! Read all about it in this blog post: bobatealee.newgrounds.com/news/post/15...

Therapist: the intersection of art and technology isn’t a real place it can’t hurt you The intersection of art and technology:

something my intuition's been telling me for a while: there have been so few Black people who've had sustained successful careers on the creative side of video games that it's taking a loooong time to reach what feels like critical mass for cultural change. kotaku.com/the-natural-...

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Link to preorder: www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...

Tea party prints to usa: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil... t-shirts, prints and much more to usa, europe and oceania: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1595...

Use the term “touch grass” to indicate that someone needs to seek out reality, use the term “touch moss” to indicate that they need to seek out ancient forest magic beyond their mortal comprehension.

I wrote about the WeTransfer terms of service and the criticism about the licensing rights in reference to large language models: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings is here! This groundbreaking collection dives deep into the vibrant world of Latinx comics, exploring themes of identity, migration, and resistance through critical essays, pedagogical reflections, and stunning short comics.

@bobatealee.com, I'm a co-curator of dizzyspell.xyz and I would like to invite you to exhibit your game Doom: The Gallery Experience. Can we communicate through email or DM?

Bundle of Joy will be included in the Games in NY Steam Sale next week, starting at 1PM ET on May 29th! The event is an amazing collection of games, demos, and streamed events featuring artists and designers from NY, and I'm so honored to be included. Stay tuned for more info!

i just published... "Why making art matters: We no longer have a type of industry where we can chase financial success. We can only sustainably fail." www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/mak... about sustainable alternatives to existing in the game industry, and the positive impact of failure. #GameDev

We are live on kickstarter, and I am a nervous wreck. Tell your friends (about the kickstarter, the emotional state is not very important). www.kickstarter.com/projects/car...

I’m Mike DeAnda. I’m an experimental game designer, whose games have been showcased internationally in festivals and museum exhibits. not at GDC, BUT currently running a Kickstarter for a game inspired by the Greek folktale of Persephone: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ali... #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

📣 Announcing 📣 My Kickstarter Campaign for "And the Crops Withered" is live: bit.ly/crops-withered Chronicle Demeter's journey to find her missing daughter in this solo TTRPG, inspired by Greek mythology. #ostara #folklore #mythology #storytelling #TTRPG #kickstarter #witchcraft #games #zine

oh, swell, new novel human coronavirus www.koreabiomed.com/news/article...

Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js will be on view at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in NYC from March 6 – August 24, 2025 Opening March 6th at 7:00 PM: lu.ma/kbs639bj @mariuswatz.bsky.social @liasomething.bsky.social @roberthodgin.bsky.social @mwiederrecht.bsky.social

#LuchaLibre #Literatura

“dark play for the lulz” #gscpp #swpaca2025 Matt Payne trying to wrestle with lusory attitude vis-a-vis contemporary logics of political kayfabe

Rafael Fajardo (@rafaelfajardo.bsky.social) from University of Denver presents "Code-X: Chicanx Games as Contemporary Codices" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Marc Ouellette (@burnedprof.bsky.social) from Old Dominion University presents "Protect Me from What I Want: The LARP of “Kayfabe” as a Hermeneutic for Right-Wing (Social) Media Games" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Yanchen Zhang from University of Arizona presents "The Sin of Play: The Citicisms against the Act of Play in China" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Bill Carroll from Abilene Christian University presents "Good Game!: Gestures towards Virtue in Sports and Games" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Socials: Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social Steward @blackbirdvortex.bsky.social

We kicked off this morning with a provocative roundtable with: Carly Kocurek & Bo Rodda, Illinois Institute of Technology Karen Stewart, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Hana Hanifah and Jennifer Dewinter, Illinois Institute of Technology #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

it's like when people are always asking me, hey. . . this is #gscpp this is #swpaca2025

Kocurek implies that many of our successes are big deals in very small spaces. #cylindersofexcellence #gscpp #swpaca2025

deWinter says "we may have a problem in games studies: we tend to study what we play, instead of playing what we should be studying" #gscpp #swpaca2025

Rafael Fajardo on Code-X: Chicanx Games as Contemporary Codices. yeeeeaaaahhhhh. #gscpp #swpaca2025

Jes Klass, from DePaul University, presents on their educational game design lab in "Building and Scaling an In-House Educational Game Studio at a University" #gscpp #swpaca2025

@playfulmike.bsky.social presents "Learning Design by Making Games from Trash, Found Objects, and Random Shit in Backpacks" #gscpp #swpaca2025

now here comes Catherine Pearce from Simon Fraser University with "Artistic Response as Collaborative Design Methodology: Creating Video Game Artifacts from Personal Stories" #gscpp #swpaca2025

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Delores Phillips from James Madison University presents "Between Loxen and Loddles: Waste, Assets, and Environments in Digital Games" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Autumn Koors-Foltz of Colorado State University presents ""Great Idea, Mayor!": Nintendo's Digital Escape through Employment" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Aaunterria Bollinger-Deters from Colorado State University presents "Global Justice Gaming: Teaching Sustainable Social Justice Practitionership through Games" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Socially mediating #gscpp #swpaca2025