State of the Arts

Music and Game Design
Synthopia: Brian Eno and Will Wright on Generative Systems in Music and Game Design

Sims designer Wright (r.) enlists Eno to collaborate on his new game Spore. Here, Wright and Eno discuss their creative processes.

Contemporary Art
The New Criterion: Why the Art World is a Disaster
Sight and Sound: Art on the Cutting Edge?
Roger [...]

Why I am not a writer

Last year I decided that, no matter how much I loved literature, I would never be a good novelist. After ten years of writing bad stories I was too embarrassed to share, after struggling to finish even one work that I could be proud of, I acknowledged the obvious: I simply wasn’t talented [...]