Chloê Langford

is an artist who works with writing, performance and video games. They live in Berlin, Germany.

They are a part of the experimental video game collective Fantasia Malware. The collective is known for their idiosyncratic approach to presenting video games in unique performative settings. Fantasia Malware also organises events hosting international artists who work in the weird purgatory between video games and art.

Langford is currently studying in the Live Art Forms MA program at AdBK Nürnberg and working on a poetry collection.
They have shown work at HAU (Hebbel am Ufer) Theatre Berlin, y events & Divadlo X10 (Prague), transmediale studio (Berlin), National Gallery X & Royal Opera House Audience Labs (London), Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester), panke.gallery (Berlin), Overkill Festival (Enschede), A MAZE Festival (Berlin), Jam Factory (Adelaide). They have given talks and guest lectures at UdK Berlin, HAW Hamburg, BIMM Berlin, AVU (Prague) and Realtime Affairs (Berlin).

In a previous lifetime, they co-ran a DIY event space called Format in Tarndanya/Adelaide. In another previous lifetime, they were a member of AAA - a video game collective.

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Selection of Projects


Hand in a Cave (a collaboration with Zane Hettinga) follows the descent of a disembodied digital hand, crawling forward into the darkness, searching for sensory data in a computer-generated cave. Meanwhile on stage, a creature with cameras for hands probes the black box of the theatre, scanning for data to feed to its digital twin. This performance combines poetry, CCTV cameras and video game technology to explore multi-sensory experience & how it is funnelled into the digital.



SEX! At Alexanderplatz (Fantasia Malware) - performance & dating game about trying to meet the love of your life at Alexanderplatz. Vibes: toxic dating app meets manic casino overstimulation meets broken heart meets polyamorous date from hell meets sex. Download and play at home here. Watch a recording of the performance here.

3D computer-generated image of a poker machine. Dating profile cards are visible on the machine. Bright pink guts are wreathed around the machine.

The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena (Fantasia Malware) - a web-based biography of a mythological martyr, created by mutating the fantasies of the three members of the collective Fantasia Malware. Vibes: Sacred, unholy, absurd. Where's Wally, Magic Eye, Hieronymous Bosch. DIY slug hormone hacker, parasocial vessel for the dreams and terror of the people, mythological grifter.

Two computer generated images of naked pregnant woman with a long red braid and blue, green and purple spots all over her body are superimposed over a warped, glitchy, colourful background that includes religious iconography and slugs.

UR KAOS UHR - a web dashboard presenting seven whirling clock-like mechanisms, each revealing a different ambient approach to liquid rhythms, organic aliveness and untamed, indivisible time.



Orchid Collector (Fantasia Malware) - an video game performance experiment that took place on Twitch during the COVID pandemic. Vibes: Polychromatic, superchaotic orchid absurdity.



Interplanetary Flirtation Device - a gastropod device for communicating with aliens via touch. Encode the mysteries of flirting into a series of delicate hand gestures.





Fantasia Malware interview

Solitude Journal #4 Chloê Langford & Jira Duguid in Conversation with Denise Sumi.