Contours - "Charting the fringes of independent games in Melbourne and Australia A month-long exhibition of playable games, zines, artwork, sculptures, videos, photography and other cultural gems http://contours-exhibition.com/ Events Opening Night Event: 10 October 2016: 6PM https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/contours-opening-night-tickets-27674861255 In Conversation Series: HELEN STUCKEY - October 13 MARIGOLD BARTLETT - October 19 NICO DISSELDORP - October 27…
The IndieCade Festival is a celebration of indie games, its creators and the innovation within the industry. We also curate and recognize those that we identify as the top indie games of the year. More than 200 games of all types are selected by our esteemed Jury and are made available to play. Attendees also…
Videogame festival Nottingham, UK From the website: Now in it’s eleventh year, Nottingham’s world-renowned video game festival returns, promising to be bigger than ever! Headlining games industry speakers from across the world will provide a free talks and workshops programme throughout the festival- all hosted at The National Videogame Arcade Operating as a fringe festival,…
PLAY – Creative Gaming Festival is the first and unique festival, which combines media art, discourse and education with the culture of digital games. Discuss games with new perspectives at our confernce and panels, learn how to use games creatively in our workshops and play experimental indie games in our interactive exhibition.
"Three nights of experimental games and theatre" Website: https://www.cptheatre.co.uk/production/beta-public-vi/ Poster design by Musbuh
Festival for innovative art and experimentation in games. Game Jam, Talks, Exhibition http://zoomachines.com/
'A game seems so simple, but in the end it is a complex phenomenon that gives us the possibility to think outside the box. Playing makes it possible to reinterpret reality, to explore taboos and to experiment with the impossible. In Games People Play, eight artists and artist collectives explore the social function of playing…
Inaugural edition of IndieCade Europe IndieCade Europe takes place November 18-19, 2016 in Paris, France. Works shown at this event will be drawn from the IndieCade 2016 game submissions. The games will be curated by the IndieCade Europe Committee that will focus on international representation. There is no separate submission process for inclusion of…
In het kader van een onderzoek naar Let's Play video's en de Let's Play game-tentoonstelling bij Beeld en Geluid, nodigen we game academici, studenten, liefhebbers, verzamelaars en erfgoed professionals van harte uit voor een symposium georganiseerd door Universiteit Utrecht en Beeld en Geluid over het bewaren van Nederlandse computergame geschiedenis. Een volle middag met lezingen,…
This year, our festival of writerly games will be happening in London, England, in a no less esteemed place than the British Library. According to the Wikipedia entry, it’s the largest library in the world and included in their collection of 170,000,000 items is the manuscript copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (which was later published as…
FUGUE OF PLAY | 24 NOVEMBER - 8 DECEMBER | AN EXHIBITION ON ART AND VIDEOGAMES In a world full of smartphones, apps and augmented reality, almost nobody notices a single new videogame. But as a result of the development of extended and accessible techniques, the videogame is no longer just a game of skill.…
From the website http://www.theoverkill.nl/ The Overkill Festival is a 48 hours nonstop gaming and film event. On The Overkill, visitors are confronted with an ‘Overkill’ of popular culture multimedia, with a strong focus on movies, video and gaming. The transcending borders of these media and the corresponding subcultures evolving around them will get a special attention…
https://twitter.com/tigershungry/status/780723660298579969 How do the virtual worlds of videogames reflect and augment our reality? With VR headsets hitting the high street and augmented reality sending players hunting through their neighbourhoods 2016 has seen our virtual and physical worlds collide like never before. But what does it mean to design a virtual world? Come join us on Friday…
4-day event to explore interactive things with each other (originally a game jam). Get away from the daily life and join other developers/designers/makers/people for the 11th Exile at the old folk highschool Vallekilde, Denmark. After ten successful Exile Jams we have concluded that the world has enough game jams and that there are plenty of…
Over Game: Jeux Vidéo, les scenes alternatives. Game Exhibition Curator: Simon Bachelier This is an introduction to the alternative game scenes related to political/social/moral topic. Come play and watch indie games and interactive installations, but also participate in different interesting debates, documentary screening, conferences, live-playing performances and more... for free. This is also the first time…
One day of experimenting with creating alternative controllers for games. More info tba
The Global Game Jam® (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event (game creation) taking place around the world at physical locations. Register a site or join one of the jams around the world. There will be locations in over 90 different countries! http://globalgamejam.org/ If you're in the Netherlands: There are about 10 locations around NL…
Game Festival. The biggest professional game event in Switzerland returns for a third edition from January 26 to 28, 2017. With roughly 600 expected professionals from the game industry, Ludicious is the place to network and see great new games from emerging talents in our exhibition. Stay up do date by signing up for our newsletter. Three days…
Screenshake 2017 is the fifth edition of the only art festival in Belgium to showcase the video game medium, with a focus on independent or ‘indie’ games. These are often smaller, more personal and innovative games; think of them as the video game equivalent of arthouse films! http://www.screenshake.be/
Talk by Steven Johnson, author of "Wonderland : How Play Made the Modern World." Steven Johnson, the international best-selling author of How We Got To Now, whose TED talk has had over 1 million views, in a talk on innovation and the future of technology seen through the history of play: the subject of his…
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