Playful Arts Festival founders Wave of Tomorrow and zo-ii partner up with Incubate in Tilburg to bring music and games to the internationally renowned cutting edge culture festival. Exhibited Games: Fract Icefishing V Memory of a Broken Dimension Soundself Remembering 140 Johann Sebastian Joust Bounden Cave! Cave! Deus Videt Panoramical Soundodger Proteus Pulse Beatbuddy Karmaflow:…
Inviting spectators and players to Incubate Arcade Live, meet composers of game soundtracks. Experience the games on a big screen while the composers play the soundtracks live. Incubate Arcade Live is a live event at theatre De NWE Vorst where composers of game audio/ soundtracks accompany live play sessions of the respective games. Visitors can…
New Gamegrounds at De Brakke Grond is a minifestival on games, theater and the ‘tyranny of the creator’. Collaboration between De Brakke Grond, Playful Arts Festival, zo-ii, SETUP and DeBuren During this two-day festival, game developers, interactive artists and theatre-makers will investigate the role of interactivity in games and theatre. Each day will start with workshops,…
Playful Arts Festival presents Play in the Dark at SHINE festival 2015. Play in the Dark is an evening with playful installations and experiences that play with light one way or the other. Line-up: Alejandra Huerta and Jara López: Air Match; Cardboarders: Wajang workshop; Studio Bean: Soundodger; Philip Ehrmann: Weeping Angels. More TBA ------- PAF Play…
Electronic Music Festival FAQ Festival collaboration with Playful Arts Festival for the Saturday night line-up mixing music and visual/ playful arts. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/244900439177969/ Website: http://www.faqfestival.nl/?cat=18 Music: Aardvarck x Steven de Peven (Rednose Distrikt) Legowelt Elias Mazian Awanto3 (Rushhour, Dekmantel) Spatial Collective Benn Rogue Sugarbelly Playful Arts: Flowtools by Matthias Oostrik Soundodger+ - Studio Bean Maze of the…
A one day event where we will explore playful arts that are still in development. More info soon.
Ever thought of your body as a game controller? The alternative controller movement is picking up steam in the independent game developer community. A game where your clothing functions as a controller to a chicken simulation that has you peck corn off of a computer screen; Incubate Arcade invites the worlds most inventive and creative game developers…
Join the Incubate Arcade artists in conversation! Incubate Arcade explores intimacy, weird interfaces and the work by female indie devs in an exhibition with 35+ games & installations. Several of the artists are present and we're going to explore the themes further with them through workshops, panels and talks on 10 September. 10 September 2016…
Interactive Performance evening. Playful Arts Sessions is an exciting evening where you can get acquainted with leading and emerging artists at the intersection of visual arts, performing arts and playful design. Includes Dinner! During the first Playful Arts Sessions we dive into the work of artist duos The100Hands (NL) and Louise Orwin & Eugenie Pastor (UK),…
Prepare yourself for a journey through the city by night and let your intuition be your guide. Playful Arts Sessions is an exciting evening where you can get acquainted with leading and emerging artists at the intersection of visual arts, performing arts and playful design. 13 December 7PM-10.30PM: Two playful urban explorations with international artists…
Playful Arts Festival presents 20+ (inter)national established and upcoming artists who stimulate social and playful interaction in their work. They will present their work in an exhibition, a pop up programme and conversations. Through a symposium, masterclasses and live workshops the festival offers a more in depth look at the 2018 theme (t)HERE & NOW.…
Games, Art & Playful Media festival
11th International Games and Playful Media Festival from May 13-17, 2022 A MAZE. / Berlin is back in 2022, bringing together the worldwide community of arthouse game developers, artistic worldbuilders, digital artists and playful media creators. From May 13-17th 2022 the international Games and Playful Media Festival will combine a digital programme in the A…
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The Overkill 2023 - Theme: The Outburst of the Digital Swamp Welcome to the Meta-swamp Rather than draining the (digital)wetlands, The Overkill wishes to design a route through its intoxicating everglades. Artists navigating through the post-digital now think of the swamp as a scape of hybridization, material transformation, monstrous mutation – a new space for…
A MAZE. / Berlin is the annual arthouse games and playful media festival. A MAZE. / Berlin invites the globally diverse experimental and independent games and playful media scene to also explore the works of worldbuilders, digital artists, hybrid performers, virtual musicians, immersive theater and more playful creatives to Berlin: with the goal to connect,…
The Overkill is the playful festival celebrating indie and arthouse games, interactive arts and alternative films within a cultural and social context. Interdisciplinary, experimental and international, The Overkill presents and welcomes game makers, digital creators and playful artists from all over the world. Following a theme, the festival tells a story, connecting one piece to…
Every year The Overkill hosts the Playful Friday to connect professionals around playful arts with the theme of the year and with each other. Playful Friday - Curated by Zuraida Buter Come join us for a day with new friends, playful and interactive sessions and exciting ideas & Insights. On this second day of the…
A MAZE. / Berlin is an international festival, a platform for independent and arthouse games and explores the world and culture of playful media. A MAZE. / Berlin is back in 2025 for the 14th time, bringing together the worldwide community of arthouse game developers, artistic world builders, digital artists and playful media creators. From…
The Overkill is a playful art, games and film festival focused on the impact of digital culture on our society. The festival showcases a selection of interactive and participative art installations, indie/arthouse games, presents an alternative film program, experimental live performances and activities such as workshops, network meet-ups, talks, hybrid symposium Theme 2025: Return to…
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