A weekly roundup of noteworthy projects, papers and tools in creative coding, generative art and AI. Each issue explains a few new works in some technical detail, such as speech synthesis models, particle simulations and constraint-based puzzle generation.

Critical Playground is an independent online publication about creative technology and culture, sending a weekly newsletter on forces shaping contemporary creative practice such as AI infrastructures and platform power. Recent issues offer essay-length criticism on media art history, the ethics and staging of an art project involving dark-web purchases, and computational media in India.

A portfolio-style newsletter documenting projection mapping and light installation projects built with TouchDesigner. Each issue presents one project with video clips, background context and some technical notes.

A curated newsletter featuring interviews with artists and creators working across physical and digital media, with each issue built around a theme such as lighting or domes. Issues open with a reflective letter from the curators followed by an in-depth conversation with the featured artist.