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As the brand new exhibition WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art within the Digital Age opens, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses the growing role of video games in our on a regular basis lives “Is that this hell?” asks the blue-haired protagonist in digital artist LuYang’s work “The Great Adventure of Material World”. Set against an infinite sea of kawaii creatures, the game-film is a kaleidoscopic journey into the Shanghai-based artist’s subconscious, filled with floating Buddhas, disembodied heads and pixellated monsters. Skirting the edge between eternity and existence, the artwork is certainly one of 30 games featured in WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art within the Digital Age, a group exhibition happening on the Julia Stoschek Foundation...