ANGEWANDTE FESTIVAL 25.06-28.06.2025

PERMA GAME CULTURES - Student's Exhibition 

Studio EGC - Georg-Coch-Pl. 2, 1010 Wien, Room 151, 156.

Sustainable computing, co-operative game mechanics, urban interventions, perma game jam results, minimal games, low action games, art and experimentation on speculative artistic game mechanics for socially relevant interventions through play, on current global ecological crises and shifts in democratic politics. 

 
Image of the EGC studio during the Angewandte Festival. There are a couple of people, in the very back you can see a projection of the current event
© Clara Hirschmanner
Close up of some plants in front of three different coloured LED-lamps: Green blue and Yellow.
© Chiara Kaya
Close up of some masks with colourful spots.
The unmasking Game, Lalehan Kahyaoğlu, © Chiara Kaya
Anima is a installation with 2 screens, and a
Anima, Miro Wallner, © Chiara Kaya
Candytrail is a board game that consists of see-through cards that each either form a path or have candies or candy-wrappers on them. You also get some marbles. Here you see the game set up as a close up in a purple tinted light.
Candytrail, Laura Pega & Eperke Remetei-Filep, © Clara Hirschmanner
Nothing is a game that is played on a old CRTV. You can
Nothing, Chiara Kaya, © Clara Hirschmanner
Three screens, each showing three different things: On the very left you have an enviorment which you can explore, in the middle you see an anime-character style girl that follows your movement, and on the right you have a black and white video clip of a figure and different glitches affecting it.
:(, Alexandra Gašparovičová & Sebastian Konzett, © Clara Hirschmanner
A person is crouching down to look at a screen that is being used in
Lit Windows, Lumiwhale, © Clara Hirschmanner
A hand turning a knob, increasing the heat in
Some are just lost, Alexander Hackl, © Clara Hirschmanner
A tall man playing llami, which is illuminating his face in a pink light.
Llami, Martin Guis, © Clara Hirschmanner
General view of the EGC Studio, semi-dark light situation with a few different coloured lights giving a nice athmosphere.
© Clara Hirschmanner
A desk set up, with a PC and screen, surounded by plants and lights.
© Chiara Kaya
A chalk board explaining the rules for
The Familiar Foreign, Reyhane Khodaie, © Chiara Kaya
In the forground you see a person playing
© Clara Hirschmanner
A person lying in a bathtub, holding a XBOX controller and looking at a screen on which you also see a person in a bathroom. The art style on the screen is very dreamy and soft.
I let you in through my bathroom window, Janine Scheer-Erb, © Philipp Ehmann
FFXRIP is being played on an old CRTV. This game mod is about the dump of childhood lost to scrated CDs and broken save files.
FFXRIP, Tmaßas Hegyi, © Clara Hirschmanner

'AAA: Angewandte Abschlussarbeiten

This years' master projects are featured in their own exhibition in Sala Terrena at Heiligenkreuzerhof (Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Wien). 

Johanna Arco: "I don’t know what the house wants"
anto_nie: "Potvory: an inquiry about a folktale "
Jakob Sam: "EINSCHNEIDEND"
Catherine Spet: "Do you really want to hurt M(AI)?"
Nikola Supukovic: "Page against the Machine"
En Su: "I wanna do a Kusoge"
Ivan Jakaric: "PERMA BIO LUDIC METABOLISM: ALL YOU CAN PLAY #BETWEEN HOMO LUDENS AND BACTERIA"

A collage of various screenshots and artwork grafics that show all seven of this semesters' master projects.