... celebrating the convergence of games, art and society.
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Interact Symposium
The Future of Music, Games + Art
Jan 31 2010
Day pass or festival ticket
The A MAZE. Interact Symposium provides the theoretical backdrop for the theme of convergences between computer games and music. Both media blur the borders between pop culture and high culture. Both are based on the creative design of new experiences. Both can entertain. Both can cause despair. Both thrive from and with other media. Using computer games as a starting point, the lectures of top-class international speakers offer fascinating insights into the networks and strategies applied by a complex media compound, which challenge and alter existing production and reception methods.
With four extravagant workshops, invited artists of A MAZE. Interact share their insights into the technological side of games, art, and music. In doing so, the program itself represents the convergence of different presentation formats. Each of the course instructors is part of another festival module. Workshop registration:workshops@amaze-festival.de
This evening we had 9 super games to present at the Computerspielemuseum. A big crowd were following the showcases of the freshest games "Made in Berlin".
A MAZE. presents since 2010 the Global Game Jam in Berlin. This year in cooperation with the Computerespielemuseum and Berlin based Game Jams as Gamestorm and Berlin Mini Jam. A MAZE.
A MAZE. recommends: 5 Buttons Game Design Competition Berlin
DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE!
You've always wanted to have an excuse to test your game production skills, but you've never managed to !nd a good one? Have you ever dreamt of having your cute experimental game played by a crowd of craving people on a quite unique game controller? With a huge screen and high power audio system? And the chance to win up to 1200€?
By combining courage for experimentation and joy in gaming, A MAZE. celebrates the convergence of computer games and art. A MAZE. is more than simply a festival – it is a series of events as well as a conceptual format that offers a regularly emerging platform for interdisciplinary exchange. Creatives are encouraged to break down the conventional computer game and surpass established concepts of play.
