Beyond the Gaming Principle 2023: On Crisis
Channel: AVU Stream
Date: 2023-03-07

Frag collective and Academy of Fine Arts in Prague had 2nd annual conference Beyond the Gaming Principle that aimed at intertwining the worlds of art, gaming and theory.

This year were presented three key guests. British theorist and an author of Playstation Dreamworld or more recently Dream Lovers, Alfie Bown, confronted us with the question: can the Left actually play today?

Videogames and cultures of play scholar, Laura od de Beke, addressed the problem of anthropocene and environmental perspective in gaming.

Renowned Austrian group and a pseudo-marxist guerrilla, Total Refusal,  presented their work with and against the dominant combative and warlike elements in mainstream games.

Together with Czech participants of the conference (Vít Bohal, Kateřina Kovandová, Frag collective, No Fun collective) we addressed how games reflect upon the ongoing discourse and atmosphere of crisis.

More to the conference and archive of previous one:
https://beyondthegaming.avu.cz