Authors

Brian Droitcour

Brian Droitcour is the editor in chief of Outland.

Calum Bowden / Risa Puno

A photograph of people turning over cubes, the surfaces of which have black letters printed on pastel colored circles

Commentary

A list of fantasy adventure gear written in white text on a black background.

Mathcastles

Numbered lines of code with metadata describing how an artwork with an unknown price can be purchased

Chicago Gamespace

A photograph of an exhibition featuring an arcade game, a pinball game, and a console game on a small screen; the walls are painted black, with a white grid overlaid to enhance the designs of the game cabinets

News

How Art Games work

Mitchell F. Chan

A stylized polygonal portrait of a baseball player against a green gradient background

Commentary

A digital image of an action figure in a package. It seems that one of the accessories has been torn from the packaging, leaving some raw cardboard.

Mark Amerika / Mitchell Chan / Refraction DAO / Sarah Zucker / Simon Denny

The Best Digital Art of 2023

Commentary

A shot of a black DOS screen where pale figures accumulate at the bottom in an incoherent jumble

Kim Asendorf

An abstract digital image where fields of orange and black pixels collide and warp

Essays produced in a writing workshop hosted by Outland and Art Blocks offer new perspectives on art, code, and web3. The Generative Art Issue

A softly blurred and glowing digital image evoking braided threads, folding over each other in swirling patterns