Climb the spider, play with strangers.
Frieze London closed Sunday, and with it Theo Triantafyllidis's Feral Metaverse (Spider), the 2026 Frieze London Artist Award commission co-produced with Forma and, for the first time, Google Arts & Culture (@googlearts): a soft, climbable spider in the fair's Focus section that plugged visitors into a shared multiplayer game. Control wasn't given to one player; you had to climb, hold and coordinate with whoever else was on a leg, forming temporary towers, wheels, group hugs and spiders. Next: Funny Weather premieres Nov 11 at Aviva Studios in Manchester.
Pinball that never lets you win.
Mitchell F. Chan (@mitchellfchan) opened Workers' Playtime, his first solo show in Asia, at DE SARTHE (@deSarthe) in Hong Kong on Oct 10, through Nov 21: six interactive sculptures built from electromechanical pinball parts, each rigged so play feels like work. In Cliffhangers a tiny gap keeps the ball from its target; Roundtrippin', the finance piece, scores in a closed loop while the player controls nothing. He was the first artist in residence at a new digital art residency by Jeannie Vu (@jeannievu) and Jehan Chu (@collectionist), closing Oct 17 with a talk alongside M+ curator Sunny Cheung.
A singing machine heads to MoMA.
After Starmirror closed at K21 in Düsseldorf on Oct 11, Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) and Mat Dryhurst (@matdryhurst) announced Candlelight, their first solo presentation in New York: a MoMA (@MuseumModernArt) commission in the Kravis Studio from Mar 27 to June 13, 2027, and on the Hyundai Card Digital Wall until Sept 6. Musician-led choral performances open to the audience will train AI models while the work in progress plays on the wall — the first time MoMA has shown across both spaces at once. Before New York, Strange Rules at Palazzo Diedo in Venice stays open through Nov 22.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: a room full of televisions.
In 1971 Steina and Woody Vasulka carried their monitors into a disused hotel kitchen at the Mercer Arts Center in Greenwich Village and opened The Kitchen (@TheKitchen_NYC) — live video in a room wired so images could travel the monitors, chairs stacked by the audience at night, and an idea "not to select or curate, but to mediate and accommodate." The music series opened Oct 4, 1971 with Laurie Spiegel (@LaurieSpiegel) on a Buchla. By the time the Broadway Central Hotel collapsed in August 1973, The Kitchen had already moved to Broome Street in SoHo.
Ahead: Fri–Sat Oct 23–24, House of Ralfus (@HouseOfRalfus) brings all nine series under one roof at Plan ₿ Forum Lugano (@LuganoPlanB) for the first time, debuting The Bitcoin Lexicon.
Tomorrow, as flagged yesterday, Sine (@sinusoidalsnail) releases A Number Is a Means of Expressing an Idea in a Definite Way — 64 loops drawn from the visual language of computation.