Event: "Playpublik" (August 9th-12th 2012, Computer Games Museum Berlin, Karl-Marx-Allee, Germany)
Playpublik
Festival of Gameplay in Public Spaces
August 9th-12th 2012, Computer Games Museum, Berlin
"From August 9th-12th 2012 the Festival Playpublik will take place in and around the Computer Games Museum Berlin, in Karl-Marx-Allee. Playpublik, being curated by Invisible Playground, presents games by some of the most brave designers, artists and members of the international Street Games Community that has formed around centers like Come Out and Play (NY) and Hide & Seek (London). Visitors of the festival will depart from the museum exploring the surrounding environments – be they physical, digital, social or economic. The games vary from 1-100 minutes, from 1-100 players. Some make use of the newest digital gadgets and infrastrucures. Others rediscover the tools of forgotten childhood days: chalk and balloons, bodies in space. Talks, conversations and workshops add context to the games. Guests from the fields of art, academia, science, technology and design explore the festival’s six thematic fields: surveillance and privacy, critique and protest, utopias and economies, fiction and history, movement and architecture, urban hacking and DIY. Two weeks before the festival, from July 27th-29th 2012, the Playpublik Camp is set up on site. Here, the games of the festival program are collaboratively created or existing games adapted to the areas around the Computerspielemuseum. Anyone can join and learn how to make games themselves, how to test them, and how to make them accesible to others.
The following people/groups will participate in the festival (t.b.c.):
- and-or (Schweiz)
- Duncan Speakman (UK)
- Florian Rivière (France)
- Hide & Seek (UK)
- Nathalie Pozzi & Eric Zimmerman (USA)
- Michael Straeubig (Germany)" (Nike Wilhelms)
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti