Event: Cambios Compartidos (September 25 - October 11, 2015, Mexico City, Mexico)
Transitio_MX 06: Cambios Compartidos
National Arts Center
Av. Río Churubusco No. 79 (on the corner of Calzada de Tlalpan)
Col. Country Club. Del. Coyoacán
Mexico City, Mexico
Cambios Compartidos (Shared Changes) is the theme of the sixth edition of Transitio_MX, Mexico's
largest festival of Electronic Art and Video. AsArtistic Curator Ricardo Dal Farra explains, the festival critically explores both the bright and dark sides of play: "The pleasure of play. Happiness and fun, entertainment and escape. But games can also be used to manipulate, to alienate. TRANSITIO_MX 06 could be an excellent laboratory for proposing a different approach—one that lets us experiment with the possibility of learning from our errors and then sharing what we know, in search of dynamic, rich, creative, ethical and aesthetic balance in the largest of all multi-user gaming networks—our society.Somewhere between illusion and reality, through games we cross borders as we explore our sensorial selves and challenge our understandings. We develop specific skills and achieve levels of concentration not present in other activities we undertake.
Games and the electronic arts have been hybridizing, flirting with one another for some time. In an accelerated world, where it would seem that if we do not run we cannot win, games often spur that acceleration, but at other times they help us to reflect and take time out. They can help us sharpen our wits, exercise memory and explore new paths."The Festival is accompanied by a massive International Exhibition featuring six events in total and dozens of artists from all over the world, including Paolo Pedercini, Joan Leandre, Arcangel Costantini, Eva and Franco Mattes, Paolo Cirio, Yoshua Okón, Gonzalo Frasca, Lucas Pope, Lisa Ma, COLL.EO and many more:
Mientras escuchas mi voz… (While you hear my voice) (Experiments for the sleepless mind) curated by Nahum;
//play ≠ game [play[not]game] //más allá de la caja negra (beyond the black box) curated by Brian Mackern;
Connected territories: games and collectivity curated by Leonardo Aranda, Eurídice Cabañes, and María Luján Oulton;
Puntos de Fuga curated by Maria Bello;
Resistance at Play
curated by Carolyn Jong, Ida Marie Toft, Lynn Hughes, and Skot Deeming;:
Cambios Compartidos' International Exhibition