As part of PLAY! CGN and for the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, we present an exhibition about the theme PAUSE in games at the Temporary Gallery, Cologne. ›› pause. computer games and cultural contingencies With works by: Pippin Barr (MT), Michael Bell-Smith (US), Karen Eliot (DE), Daniel Helbig (DE), Hörner/Antlfinger (DE), Miltos Manetas (UK), Kent Sheely (US), Jeroen de Stout (NL) und Yuk-Yiu IP (HKN). Opening: November 20th, 2013, 7 p.m. with Concert: Annesley Black performs together with Theo Nabicht and Ernesto Molinari, playing live music and our computer game THIS FEELS GREAT ...

This semester seminar @ KHM: KHM, WS 2013/14: open _lab _discussion _source _access _play An exper­i­men­tal com­mu­nica­tive plat­form with a focus on inter­ac­tive for­mats, games and exper­i­men­tal 3D.

Paidia Laboratory: feedack #2 and Paidia Laboratory: feedback #6 out of the same series will be seen at the exhibition ZKM_Gameplay at the ZKM Medienmuseum in Karlsruhe. Opening: June 21st 2013 Exhibition: June 22nd 2013 – Octobre 31st, 2014 zkm press release (PDF, german) Paidia Institute is represented with Paidia Laboratory: feedback by Jonas Hansen, Thomas Hawranke, Karin Lingnau and Lasse Scherffig.

This semester I am teaching three seminars: KHM, SS 2013: DREIxD - Introduction into three dimensional design KHM, SS 2013: Open Lab - An experimental communicative platform with a focus on interactive formats and experimental 3D. KHM, SS 2013: Contemporary Fine Games | join - A playful course with a focus on the correlation between games and art. Infotext

Laboratory on revealing, scanning, expanted audio-visible making of environments, objects and territories conceived and curated by Paidia Institute, Cologne November 4 – 11, 2012 hosted and produced by Noarte, San Sperate, Sardinia As an association of artists researchers focussed on the intereactions between virtual and material spaces and the possibility of action and creativity “in between” of them, Paidia Institute proposes a new laboratory with a strong vocation for field work. The choosen core location is a community in Southern Sardinia with an established tradition on artists residency and artistic intervention: a perfect (both logistic and cultural) pre-condition in order to produce a laboratory to be extended over a larger territory: the territory –the objects of architecture, pieces of landscapes and spatial facts–has to be seen as the experimental laboratory. ...

Paidia Institute will show two pieces from the project Paidia Laboratory: feedback at the exhibition CHAOS! Complexity in Art and Science organized by ERES foundation in Munich.

The Results of the Seminar Contemporary Fine Games will be shown at the Platine Festival in Cologne. The festival showcases electronic media ranging from art to alternative forms of gaming.

new Unity Class website: /unity

This semester I will teach two courses at KHM: