Paidia Laboratory: feedback @ transmediale 12 in/compatible The cycle Paidia Laboratory: feedback examines computer games as closed feedback systems. In an ongoing series of artistic experiments the feedback behaviour of games is studied, by coupling their in- and output through modifications of hard- and software. The focus lies not on the usability of games, but rather on an archeology of interaction – determining the limits and boundaries of games in order to understand the media specific characteristics of computer games.

Paidia Institute is part of the exhibition and panel programme of Next Level Conference 2011. As part of the conference, Paidia Institute takes part in Cologne’s Long Night of Museums 2011 as well.

Paidia Institute will be part of the Platine 2011 (Cologne, August 15th-19th) with the Paidia Laboratory: Feedback.

July 27th - August 17th, 2011, National Art Museum of Chia, Beijing, http://mediartchina.org As part of the Weather Tunnel Project at Translife Triennial in Beijing, China, two works from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne are shown: Blind Spots by Susanna Schoenberg and the Solar Wind Periscope by Lasse Scherffig and me.

3D-Festival BEYOND, March 27-29th

From 16th till 19th of August two of my games ( CollecTic & Thumbs Down) will be presented at the PLATINE festival in Cologne.

From 14th-15th of June, we invited Tom Russotti at Lab.D at the KHM, Academy of Media Arts. Tom Russotti is founder of the Institute for Aesthletics:

Just in time for the upcoming computer game conference NextLevel (20th - 21st of April, Cologne) we finished our small and shiny workshop publication: Point&Click, Adventure als Spielprinzip More info and a downloadable PDF version is available here.

Last week, 8th-11th of march, we hosted an intensive workshop together with Aram Bartholl at the KHM, Academy of Media Arts. The workshop was dealing with adventure games and public space and was organized by Lasse Scherffig and me, its results will be presented at the upcoming computer gaming conference “Next Level“.