Digital Games II: Game Art: Stories and Visions, Technologies and Mechanics

Avant-gardes and self-empowerments in 20th century (pop)culture have fuelled and echoed in artistic creations with game-based software, hardware, rules and technologies. What inspirations stimulated artists and devs to quote, modify, recycle, remix, transform, deconstruct, disrupt, destroy, (re)build? In the seminar we negotiate works from the history of artistic human-computer interaction and re-visit digital world simulations of the last fifty years. We draft playful experiences with inclusive, diverse perspectives on a global society. How can we use the medium games as an empathy machines and help shaping social versions of future X-Verses?