EVENT: THE VISIBLE CITY - THE CITY AT PLAY (SEPTEMBER 20 - 23, VALENCIA, SPAIN)

 

La ciudad jugable - la ciudad en juego (The visible city - the city at play)

Curated by Luca Carruba and Dr.a Eurídice Cabañes, produced by Meritxel Ahicart

Main Hall, Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences

Universitat de València, Spain

Av. de Blasco Ibáñez, 13, 46010 València, Spain

 

Produced in the framework of the 7th International Conference on Videogames and Education (September 20-22 2022) in Valencia, Spain, the exhibition is organized by the Chair Gamification and Open Government (according to the agreement signed between the University of Valencia and the City Council) and the International Group of Researchers Association ALFAS. The works on display include video games, board games, video art, documentary, and digital photography, focusing on the theme of art, the city, and video games. According to the curators, the goal of the exhibition is to open up a space for dialogue between Art and the City in their relation with video games.

 

Curators' statement (translated from Spanish)

The city is built in many ways. Through material manipulation, but also through languages and constructions of symbolic worlds that operate and shape it. Different artifacts and technologies amplify this effect. Our entire relationship with reality is technologically mediated, and if there is one technology (and one language) that has become the spearhead of this interaction, it is clearly the video game.

Beyond leisure, the video game has changed our ways of generating and interacting with knowledge about reality, it has become a tool with great potential for collective decision making, to disseminate different values and to experiment imagining new worlds and systems.

We propose an exhibition that allows us to look at the video game from its potential to transform the city, without forgetting to provide a critical perspective on the medium that also makes visible the problems that we face and that it is important that we solve in order to exploit the full potential of the medium in an ethical, fair and diverse way.

The full program is available on the official website.

LINK: La ciudad jugable - la ciudad en Juego (in Spanish)