Fearsome Engines: Featuring Charles Lim, Debbie Ding, Hà Ninh Pham, Martin Constable

A game engine is the software that defines and governs the gaming experience, a vast and richly layered world shaped by rules, visuals, physics, hierarchies, and glitches. Within games, social interaction is structured through complex systems of status and engagement; environments resemble the real world, but are often amplified, distorted, or perfected; physics may mirror reality, yet can also be bent or broken at the designer’s will; and bugs become an inevitable part of the experience, much like bacteria in human life. For the four artists in this exhibition, games...