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• A skate through cyberspace: on the edge with the Now Play This festival of experimental video games

  08-04-2024 16:31
  
  This week, Somerset House houses a selection of avant garde games on the theme of liminalityFor a week or so every year, Somerset House in London becomes home to a mini-festival of experimental video games: last year’s were all on the theme of love. Now Play This has been running for 10 years, and this year’s theme – liminality – is especially well-suited to the medium. Video games are in-between spaces: they are fictional worlds in which real-world relationships are made
  
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• Artists’ AI dilemma: can artificial intelligence make intelligent art?

  08-04-2024 08:00
  
  Pierre Huyghe’s uncanny machine-human hybrids in Venice are the latest attempt to find deeper meaning in a technology that leaves many creatives playing catch-upTwo people dressed in black are kneeling on the floor, so still that they must surely be in pain. If they are grimacing, there would be no way to know – their features are obscured by oversized, smooth gold masks, as though they have buried their faces in half an Easter egg.Their stillness makes them seem like sculptures, and
  
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• ‘It contrasts with the grey British sky!’ Why the Barbican has been wrapped in pink fabric

  08-04-2024 06:00
  
  Ibrahim Mahama has draped London’s brutalist landmark in 2,000 square metres of fabric, including robes that have been urinated on. The artist, whose rise has been meteoric, explains whyVisitors to London’s Barbican Centre this month will find its lakeside facade swathed in a magnificent magenta fabric, dramatically taming the grey brutalist architecture. Resembling a billowing pavilion or awning, the exterior has been transformed by a vast expanse of pink-purple striped material, em
  
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