We had to get permission, but we’re glad we did because it means our Playday on the 29th will be spreading out from NGV Studio and into Federation Square, who, it just so happens, will also be playing Pac Man on the big screen in the Main Square! Continue reading
On October 29th (this Satuday!), we’ll once again be turning the National Gallery of Victoria Studio into a place of play. This time, we’ve teamed up with Pop Up Playground and Coney to run a bunch of games, some playful secret agent missions, and a few surprises that you’ll just have to come along to check out. Continue reading
Over the weekend, we ran a bit of a game jam at the NGV Studio.
On Saturday, we had people come through and draw pictures that we’ve now stuck on the wall of the gallery, and which we’ll leave there until the end of the show in November.
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Coming out of Freeplay were really concrete and tangible themes of inclusion, accessibility, gender, and recognition, which we hadn’t really given space within the festival itself to properly explore. We didn’t want to wait a whole year before doing that though so we decided to put our feelers out and see if any other groups would be interested in exploring those topics in relation to gaming. Continue reading
This Thursday we have our first Late Night Board Games in NGV Studio. Come along and play from our collection or bring your own.
Then on Saturday, we’ll be running a Playday of pervasive games. Come along for the whole thing or just drop in whenever you feel like it. The schedule is:
10:00 – Lemon Jousting
11:00 – J’accuse
12:00 – Lunch… Continue reading
Time warps in strange ways after a festival. We know it’s been a month since Freeplay because our calendar says so – and also because we’re gearing up for…
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This year’s Freeplay is barely over and we’re already turning our heads to our next project with the National Gallery of Victoria in their newest gallery space, NGV Studio.
We’re helping to curate a mix of the digital, analogue, playful, artistic, and creative from Saturday 24 September – Sunday 23 October, and we’re looking for art, games and people to showcase their work. Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who submitted a slide for our (un)Keynote this year and who then generously gave us permission to put their slides up online. They’re a mix of insight, wisdom, call to arms, reflection, science, and art, and reflect the individual views of their creators, but stitched together perfectly illustrate our theme of Handmade. Continue reading
I knew going into this year’s festival that gender was an issue for us in terms of representation in our program, but coming out of the festival, it has obviously evolved into a much larger conversation centred around our panel The Words That We Use.
While I wasn’t physically present, I have read through all of the articles, blog posts, and twitter commentary – which I’ve linked to as… Continue reading | 5 Comments
When we came up with our theme of Handmade for this year’s festival we sketched out a list of ideas that it meant to us, one of which was the realisation that a festival wasn’t actually a concrete thing without an audience. In many ways the process of designing a festival is like designing a game. You’re creating a possibility space for an experience – an experience that becomes unique for everyone who comes along, influenced by their focus, their desires, their relationship to the speakers or the topic or each other, and things as simple as where they sit in the room. Continue reading