LET'S PLAY WITH THE WORLD -- Games, Art, Activism and Other Subversions (2012)
Channel: IndieCade
Date: 2014-05-19

Speakers: Johannes Grenzfurthner, Kaho Abe, Nathalie Pozzi, Zach Gage, Paolo Pedercini

This panel invites five game designers who are also artists to discuss the boundary between art, games and activism. It is a standard reflex for people to think they are helpless in the face of mighty governments and corporate power. But in a media-based society, everything is controlled by a "cultural grammar of the public space": the habits and conventions of society, our ways of speaking and thinking, the images and stereotypes which give short-cuts to meaning in our lives. That means that the power wielded by big institutions is more like a fluid or a jelly than a solid brick wall, and we can play with it. So let us - as game designers, game players, artists, activists and other fellow nerds - leave our cozy peer-groups and comfy scenes behind, and talk about what we can do to play with the world. 

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