in middle school i had this friend i used to talk about our respective paracosms with — we went through a ream of paper tgtr drawing out timelines, characters, battles, politics, maps, etc. critiquing each other sync or async, sharing (naive) ideas for systems, playing little cross-over episodes

co-teaching a new class in nyc, july 24, 25, & 26! with celine nguyen. very excited !! ultralight.school/classes/rese...

small tests for 'Burning', an executable desktop documentary I've been working on - Filipino seafarers and American empire, from the USAT Burnside laying telegraph cable from Dumaguete to Puget Sound in the early 1900s, to today's US-led Pax Silica initiative and conflict in the West Philippine Sea.

For once in my life can I receive a very kind sweet nice email that doesn't make me panic cry etc. My communications with the world are depleting my soul

desktops

"Beaver, transformed in two directions" by Leslie Mesei, 1967. From the book Computer Graphics, Computer Art

dont feel great about tech workers turned artists (w far more capital, mobility, access) moving into art worlds as the latter becomes higher-signal (or calms w/e career crisis they have) -- taking up already scarce grants, residencies, etc. from peers whose lives are materially organized around art

its probably easier to raise a seed round than it is to get a 10k new media grant

helping jury this open call! for net artists, curators, collectives, etc "Error 417 Expectation Failed is looking for projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” and confront the politics of net nostalgia head-on." app due may 4, 2026 error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalg...

hey, btw completely unrelated: here are 5 indie games that literally just came out this past month that together cost about the same as 1 brand new AAA game, and you will probably have much more fun with Oeuf store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/... Lucid Blocks store.steampowered.com/app/3495730/...

i'm making blaseball league of legends

snippets from “Walk to School,” a short film where I recreate part of my high school commute inside a modded web port of GTA Sofia (itself a 2010 mod of GTA San Andreas). premiered last week at ALL CHAT organized by @chia.bsky.social at Tiat in San Francisco ⁠♡

SF this Thursday: join us for ALL CHAT, an evening of performances and experimental presentations on games — no pitches 🎮 RSVP: lu.ma/allchat tiat @ 151 Powell St, San Francisco 3/12 Thurs 6–8PM Hatim Benhsain mut/moochi Jackie Liu Everest Pipkin Chia Amisola shm garanganao almeda Kaloyan Kolev

and then for ALL CHAT, an evening of game performances and experimental lectures at tiat, with a really exceptional group of artists. I’ll be bringing an in-progress live performed scifi film. This is ticketed but open to all, not just GDC attendees. luma.com/allchat

SF this Thursday: join us for ALL CHAT, an evening of performances and experimental presentations on games — no pitches 🎮 RSVP: lu.ma/allchat tiat @ 151 Powell St, San Francisco 3/12 Thurs 6–8PM Hatim Benhsain mut/moochi Jackie Liu Everest Pipkin Chia Amisola shm garanganao almeda Kaloyan Kolev

'Every Love Song in the World' A new performance-lecture on the intimacies and extremes of infrastructures. Tracing how Filipinos condition and inhabit technologies: from cableship workers on the USAT Burnside, the ILOVEYOU virus, the 8chan forums, to League's T1 Faker as a geopolitical fantasy...

recording of this is now up! performance-presentation of my practice~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rCg... grateful to rhizome & artwrld for having me alongside many new media greats im forever inspired by

🌼My new game is here!🥀 "She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." alienmelon.itch.io/flower A game poem and interactive fiction about The End. You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. #IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game

online presentation/performance tomorrow with rhizome & artwlrd — rhizome.org/events/aw-ch...

I've been working on a new painting toy for pixel artists, and I'd love to find a few folks to test it out and give feedback. I'm already having a lot of fun with it. Message me here or email! garrett @ brainfruit . studio

I like to call the 3.5mm to 1/4" a "small to big"

I've called the process of designing a system from an inspiration set "story interpolation" (middling term, admittedly). I love to use this slide from a talk Tarn gave at Northwestern's Progression Mechanics to illustrate the concept

Art and alternative games for the discerning palate, it's Indiepocalypse #69! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @deimosly.itch.io -Cover by @abbycali-art.bsky.social pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-69

this year I'm very interested in getting good at league of legends

i need to take in everything about dungeons www.are.na/chia/on-dung...

i want you to know me amiso.la

I cannot "upgrade to macOS sequoia". i am seeing another world on my desktop

one of my art professors in college spent an hour showing us his gallery exhibitions of skyrim & rdd screenshots... he did change my life

i made the mistake of 'hacking' on a 'simple' 'text editor' in my free time

my whole life is just a practice of making to make myself

on 'broadcast' platforms like blogs, twitter, this — I kind of don't want anyone to talk back to me, ever

my belief

new update to kakakompyutermoyan.com ♬📺 television in your living room with 30 relatives in the corner dreaming mode

faker as religious experience

the language used around league of legends now feels very different from when i was a babbling 12 year old playing around S2. now regularly speaking on priority, agency, 'non-interactivity'... all beautiful to me.. even 'inting' instead of feeding is gorgeous, esp when it is not actually intentional

Me & every Tan Lin girl in the world

For those looking to be the friend with cool (and unrelatable? (but cool)) taste in games, it's Indiepocalypse #67! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @chia.bsky.social -Cover by Ezra (malenkoste.github.io/carnet/) pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-67

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every project eventually becomes a god simulation

nyc & online this wednesday, july 30, 2025 — offering a small sermon on apparitions of the divine & cyberfeminism for 𝔰𝔶𝔫𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔰, a night of spiritual architectures & protocols curated by Danielle Paterson & Ruby Bailey tickets here synthetics.metalabel.com/anightofserm...

🌱 Inspiration: MTMC-16 Computer emulator that shows data and code at multiple levels. From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_6pZ_sT3y0 https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-07-25-11-19-38-mtmc-16

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i've been abandoned by this world so much im so dulled by it; a whole life of proving people wrong & having to struggle for everything: education, identity, security in my body, where i can live, what i place faith in, what i can do... it is surprising that the fight in me has yet to be killed

I made a piece of software! It’s called the film|minutes video|graphic workstation. It’s pretty niche but cool if you want to take notes or do very close readings of films/videos.

first half of the year: + bringing pisonets + karaoke + internet art to the philippines' largest art fair with KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN! + screening new internet ambient work at tate britain + experimental games showcase at GDC! + writing + performances on tropical technologies...

𝓅𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓈𝒶 ( an experimental atmosphere ) ⤷ june 29 sunday, 3–5pm at experimental sound studio, chicago ⤷ an internet ambient performance, artist talk after! ﾟ ⋆ ess.org/esscalendar/... ﾟ ☂︎ ⋆

i'd love to see a vibe coding/ai tools-focused class around poetic computation/creative code/handmade web ideals, even if it seemingly goes against a lot of principles/narratives from that world.. it feels urgent to think, work around & address (obviously)—the many ways of placing our hand

the more you make cozy hidden gem corners of the internet here's what i'm building videos, the more soulless & insipid your audience grows—becoming husks, numbers. the crueler i think people will become, and the more facile your practice. in seeking legibility, i lose what was worth writing about.

Software for People, Pauline Oliveros