Side Quest
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CCC Video Game Writing 2026
Every year I have the good fortune to spend a portion of my working day supporting the research and writing endeavours of some incredibly smart young people. As a lecturer on BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martin...
Parts Per Minute: on the very slow erasure of game-time.
Installation view of Bob Bicknell-Knight (2026) Real-Time at Cable Depot, Sofia, Bulgaria. Courtesy of the gallery and artist. Photography by Yana Lozeva.
Early July I was in the Bulgarian capital Sofia for the opening of Real-Time, a solo...
Gather Quest: Sketches from A MAZE part 2/2
Installation view of A MAZE / Berlin 2026. International Games and Playful Media Festival, at Betonhalle, Silent Green. Courtesy of the festival. Photography by Jens Keiner.
Final night of A MAZE and another event beckons, I should be cutt...
Gather Quest: Sketches from A MAZE part 1/2
Now landing at Berlin Brandenburg Airport. I am greeted by the new EU Entry/Exit automated digital border system, an hour fifty minute loading-corridor of predominantly UK based passengers who disintegrate from patient queuing to expressing...
Observation Quest: 'Guanyin II: The Caretaker'
Video still from Lawrence Lek (2026) Guanyin II: The Caretaker. Courtesy of the artist.
Entry to the V&A East Storehouse may well have been dreamt up by a video game level designer. Opened at the tail-end of May 2025 the museum is the firs...
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