AMAZE: PLAYFUL MEDIA - FESTIVAL @ ZKF
Game cultures, art and games - a social experiment: "A Maze" is and has been a trend-setting festival, exhibition format and community building since the first wave of game arts: impulse-giving and open for the new, unfinished ... in short - art!
Margarete Jahrmann, on stage with Ludic Society at the first Amaze 2012 in Berlin Mitte will discuss current works from the new course Experimental Game Cultures 2023 with the founder of the festival Thorsten Wiedemann as part of the semesteropening on March 1 in studio EGC at Otto Wagner PSK.
"Our vision was - and still is - to cultivate and promote artistic expression, authorship and cultural diversity in the field of games, and just like film festivals, to showcase and discuss these unique works," Wiedemann said.
Thorsten S. Wiedemann is founder and artistic director of A MAZE.. He produces and curates under this international label festivals, exhibitions and workshops on the intersection of games, games culture, digital arts and playful media. With "A MAZE. / Berlin" he created one international festivals to present arthouse games, playful media and alternative games culture. He generates new formats (e.g. A MAZE. Magazine, A MAZE. Pop-ups, A MAZE. / SPACE, A MAZE. Train Jam) and gives room for experimentation and exchange. Thorsten established since 2012 the A MAZE. Awards, which goes to artistic games in seven categories. His focus is on the interdisciplinary and diverse discourse about the medium of the 21. century in filling the gaps between games, playful media, art, culture and technology. He also spent during his Disconnected performance 48hrs in virtual reality! Currently he lives and works in Berlin.
