Game-Art

In October/November 2018 we had an exhibition about art and culture of games: void Start(){Play( at Burg Gallery Volkspark. Games are part of everyday culture. They can be played everywhere: at home, mobile and connected with others. They are an established medium, at the center of various subcultures and are also subject of sustained artistic inquiry. Players/designers/artists analyze and question rules, possibilities of agency and forms of expression in games and develop new forms of expression. The exhibition void Start(){Play( showed experimental games, as well as artistic comments about games. ...

In September 2016 I gave a talk about framing in animation, games and art at the Expanded Animation symposium that was part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2016 in Linz. In this talk I focused on strategies that expand and question the traditional use of the screen and actively incorporate the human body and the physical space. Not only since the renaissance of virtual reality has the rigid format of the screen as a frame been challenged, but also through a long history of artistic inquiries that explored the boundaries between the real and the mediated space. The question we have to ask ourselves is to what extent these expanded spaces create a deeper understanding of reality or completely cut us off via immersive simulations of existence. I showed examples of my own work and also work of students of the newly formed department exMedia at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne to open discussions about the hybrid forms in art, animation and games. ...

Our installations Paidia Laboratory: feedback #2 and #6 are part of New Gameplay, a show at Nam June Paik Art Center in Yongin, South Korea. The exhibition presents work by 34 artists and artist groups. The works range from art that has computer games as its subject to computer games designed by artists, putting these in dialog with classic video art. It is co-curated by Nam June Paik Art Center and ZKM | Center for Art and Media. ...

Installation together with Paidia Institute documentation: Schwindel der Wirklichkeit, Akademie der Künste, 2014

Computerspielen. Perspectives of Play. Verlag der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Köln, 2014 Jonas Hansen, Thomas Hawranke, Mischa Kuball, Lasse Scherffig (eds.) Exhibition catalogue of the exhibition Computerspielen. Perspectives of Play at Dortmunder U in 2013-2014. ›› KHM Publishing ›› PDF (3.6 MB) ISBN: 978-3-942154-34-5

In the experiment feedback #1 two game controllers of a fighting game are modified. The vibration feedback of the controller are used to create two closed feedback loops. The vibration motor of each controller is linked with the PUNCH button of the controller. As soon the setup gets a start impulse by pressing one PUNCH button the system plays itself. In 2013 Paidia Laboratory: Feedback was part of the game exhibition “Computerspielen - perspectives of play” in Dortmunder U, Dortmund. ...

On Friday, December 6th our exhibition Computerspielen. Perspectives of Play opens at Dortmunder U(U2_Kulturelle Bildung/ Museum Ostwall). The exhibition presents artistic positions from the past decade that analyze computer games and the act of playing. It is organized for Next Level Conference 2013 and is open until January, 5th 2014. Artists: Anna Anthropy, Sebastian Blank, Karen Eliot, Mary Flanagan, //////////fur////, Alexander Gurko, Guillermo Federico Heinze, JODI, Karin Lingnau, Feng Mengbo, Molleindustria, Marnix de Nijs, Paidia Institute, Eddo Stern, Olaf Val, Bill Viola, weAREmedienkuenstler ...

exhibition catalogue, 2013 Concept with Thomas Hawranke, Karin Lingnau, Lasse Scherffig As part of PLAY! CGN and for the Acad­emy of Media Arts Cologne, the exhibition PAUSE at the Tem­po­rary Gallery (Cologne) presented works on the topic of computer games through the focus on waiting and interruption. The catalogue provides an overview of the selected works, including: Pip­pin Barr (MT), Michael Bell-Smith (US), Karen Eliot (DE), Daniel Hel­big (DE), Hörner/Antlfinger (DE), Mil­tos Mane­tas (UK), Kent Sheely (US), Jeroen D Stout (NL), Yuk-Yiu IP (HKN) and presents our game THIS FEELS GREAT. ...

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 ...

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.