A new game called Solitaire Alone Together remixes classic Windows 98 solitaire by allowing players to watch others play online simultaneously, creating a social yet isolated experience. Created for Rhizome's 30th anniversary exhibition opening September 21st, the work explores contrasts between the optimistic early web and today's lonely, omnipresent internet culture.
Claude Opus 5.5 features an interactive 3D browser game where a helmeted pelican rides a vintage bicycle along a coastline catching fish. The entire scene—including dusk, starry sky, waves, and streetlights—is procedurally generated in real-time without external textures, with gameplay controls for acceleration, lane-switching, stunts, and dynamic music synchronized to pedaling rhythm.
An artist created Solitaire Alone Together, a multiplayer version of Windows 98 solitaire for Rhizome's 30th anniversary exhibition. Players can watch others play online but cannot interact, capturing the paradox of modern internet culture as simultaneously social and isolating.