EVENT: HOMO LUDENS: VIDEOGAMES TO UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT (JULY 20 - OCTOBER 31 2021, MADRID, SPAIN)

The Faculty of the Master of Arts in Game Design at IULM University is well represented in the groundbreaking exhibition Homo Ludens: Videogames to understand the present opening tomorrow in Madrid, Spain.

Curated by scholar, critic, and designer Luca Carrubba, this ambitious and spectacular exhibition invite viewers to take an anthropological journey through the playful dimension of life expressed by digital play, a cultural, aesthetic and artistic phenomenon that has become a driving force of contemporary culture. Homo Ludens brings together culture and technology, industry and art, featuring artworks by international artists, including current and former faculty of the M.A., not to mention several guest speakers.

The full list of artists includes: Rasheed Abueideh, Anna Anthropy, Matteo Bittanti (GAME PLAN, GAME SCENES) and the collective IOCOSE, Ricardo B. Brasilero, Daniel Canogar, Robbie Cooper, Jake Elliott (GAME WRITING), Bruno Federico, Auriea Harvey (GAME LAB, GAME ART) and Michaël Samyn (GAME ART), Roc Herms, Agustina Isidori, David Jaumandreu, Ge Jin, Tamas Kemenczy (GAME ART) and Ben Babbitt, Josep Lago, Jorge Paris, Nadège Mazars, MesquitaFMS, Hamilton Mestizo, Juan Naharro Gimenez, Roman Pilipey, Everest Pipkin, David Ramos, Linnea Rheborg, Mario von Rickenbach and Christian Etter, Pietro Righi Riva (GAME PRODUCTION), Monica Rikić, Skawennati, Octavi Serra, Bill Viola and USC Game Innovation Lab, and Robert Yang.

The exhibition will be traveling for the next four years across Spain. After Madrid, it will open in Barcelona, Sevilla, Zaragoza, Valencia, Palma, Tarragona, and Girona.

Homo Ludens: Videogames to understand the present
July 20 - October 31 2021
CaixaForum Madrid
Paseo del Prado, 36 28014 Madrid, Spain
Curated by Luca Carrubba
Designed by Domestic Data Streamer studio
Produced by Fundación "La Caixa"
Opening Conference: July 20 2021

For more information, head to the exhibition’s official page.

NEWS: NOW PLAY THIS: A FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL GAME DESIGN (APRIL 3-5 2020, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM)

Guest Director, Marie Foulston curated the 2020 edition of NOW PLAY THIS festival at Somerset House in London which features all kinds of artworks looking at games that relate to a theme of ‘Breaking Point’. As the curators wrote, “Games are the aesthetic forms of systems, and we were looking at works that break or subvert them in interesting and creative ways.” The IRL festival could not go ahead because of the pandemic and it has been postponed. The amazing lineup features, among others, Paolo Pedercini, A.M Darke, IP Yuk-Yiu, Ian MacLarty, Studio Oleomingus, Alistair Aitcheson, Danielle Udogaranya, Patrick LeMieux, Stephanie Bouk and Matteo Bittanti, the Program Manager and Professor in the Master of Arts in Game Design at IULM University. Bittanti’s How to get rid of homeless is featured in the selection.

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