Rafael Fajardo

The Video Game of Life In Lu Yang’s hypnotic arcade, Buddhist cosmology refracts through gaming culture.

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.

The Louvre Heist Was a Colonial Wake-Up Call The stunning theft reveals more than a failure of security: It lays bare how austerity, neglect, and unresolved colonial legacies continue to haunt the museum.

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.

Carmen Argote’s Maximalist Homage to Garment Workers The artist makes each article of clothing in her current exhibition from the same sewing pattern, but they all have their own personalities.

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!

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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

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:

The Natural: The Trouble Portraying Blackness in Video Games - Kotaku Every morning, I run a pick through my hair. It’s important that I do this when it’s still spongy and damp from the shower. Wait too long and my hair gets

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-...

El Género Mecha Mexicano Un mecha , meka (del japonés メカ, meka, abreviación de メカニック, mecánico), es un vehículo de gran tamaño controlado por uno o más pilotos, q...

Mechas Mexicanos 🇲🇽

¡Ajúa!

Taco Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food…

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

Have you checked out the film Sleep Dealer by Alex Rivera?

a capybara and her babies, a platypus and a cat having a tea party in the middle of the forest

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.

done :) thank you :D

D̴͚̉I̷͙͛Z̴͖͒Z̴̧̉Ý̵̨ ̴̻̈́S̸͎̃P̴̥͆É̶̹L̵̺̀L̴̇͜ games art not games not art games

@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!

Why making art matters: We no longer have a type of industry where we can chase financial success. We can only sustainably fail. – The Candybox Blog

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

Halcyon Daze: The Final Voyages of the Galactic Starcruiser A feature-length documentary about the closure of Disney's Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser and the fandom it left behind

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

Words and Images Come Alive | Denver Art Museum Unlike most books that rely exclusively on two dimensions—letters printed on the page—Mesoamerican codices existed in three dimensions.

Georgi Kyorlenski wrote a short essay that helps contextualize the exhibited works against their ancestral antecedents for the Denver Art Museum blog. It is available at: www.denverartmuseum.org/en/blog/word...