GAMIFICATION GOVERNANCE

Podcast
GAMIFICATION GOVERNANCE

With Total Refusal (AT) and Aleksandra Niemczyk (GB/PL), produced by Marold Langer-Philippsen (DE)

Susanna Flock, Adrian Haim, Robin Klengel, Leon Müllner, and Michael Stumpf from the collective TOTAL REFUSAL (AT) and Aleksandra Niemczyk (GB/PL) are talking about the principles of dynamics and mechanics in game and non-game contexts in a podcast by Werkleitz Festival 2021. 

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Marold Langer-Philippsen

Marold Langer-Philippsen, born in Munich, lives in Europe, works as radio/media artist, director, performer, stage/exhibition designer and musician in the fields of time-based arts with particular attention to public space, theatre and live broadcast since 1984.

His radio works were created for community radios in Europe, Public Broadcast Stations in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia, Ars Electronica Linz and São Paulo Art Biennial. His performance works were presented throughout Europe, in the Middle East, South America and Australia.

Aleksandra Niemczyk

Aleksandra Niemczyk holds an M.A. in Fine Arts from the European Academy of Art in Warsaw (2001). She studied with Béla Tarr among the first generation of M.A. students to graduate from his Sarajevo ‘film.factory’ program (2013-15). Her work crosses over from painting to film and multi-channel moving image installation.

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Total Refusal

Total Refusal is an open artists’ collective which criticizes and artistically appropriates contemporary video games. However, as most mainstream game narratives employ the same infinite loops of reactionary tropes, the genre largely fails to challenge the values of their players and instead affirms hegemonial moral concepts. Acknowledging that this media is currently not realizing its cultural potential, we aim to appropriate digital game spaces and put them to new use. Moving within games but casting aside the intended gameplay, we rededicate these resources to new activities and narratives, looking to create “public” spaces with a critical potential.

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