We are back with a new edition of the conference on "Gamez & ruleZ" and are able to present some exciting international speakers to you. This year, the conference on "Gamez & ruleZ" sets the focus on Mechanics of Play. It will take place on October 20./21, 2022, ToniAreal, 5th Floor, Room 5.K12 (Kunstraum).  If you can't attend llive, join our Zoom session here: https://zhdk.zoom.us/j/66410594992?pwd=bXpDUGVlVDBUc255OEJscU42SU1UZz09 / Meeting ID: 664 1059 4992, Kennwort: 788395

The "Toni Areal" in real or if you want to virtually walk through the toni-areal as a game: you can do this on toniz.ch  a subversive version of the ToniAreal. Meet godzilla, a lot of pixel art and how students imagine the university should look like.

This years topic: The Mechanics of Play in Arts and Culture

Play seems to be a free form, it is self-contained and people do it to get satisfaction. It also helps us to communicate and understand what surrounds us. It is best understood in correlation to normal life or work. Work favours pain and play favours pleasure. Work has to be done to increase productivity, play does not have to be productive, it is not constricted, may be spontaneous, aimless and creative at the same time. And you may even learn something by playing.

The conference looks at moments of play, different aspects of play and playful approaches in games, art and culture. What does free play mean in comparison to play a game with set rules? What happens, if we start changing some of the set rules? And what happens if we constrict free play with boundaries and some rules? If play is like a language, there must be some elements of play that we use in different kinds of playing.

With our guests we are discussing these elements and their connections as mechanics of play. Jörg Piringer plays with language and code. Matteo Bittanti delves into politics and ideology of playing video games. Sonia Fizek looks at playing at a distance and Nathalie Lawhead makes us familiar with humor in playing with software. And there is more, we are pleased to welcome ten guest speakers at the gameZ & ruleZ 2022.

Schedule with Abstracts & Bios download here >

 

* The following timetable is work in progress, also the titles!
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Program*: Thursday, 20. October, Room 5.K12

13.00 Opening
13.30 Matteo Bittanti (gamescenes.org, US): The Politics of Play / Playful Politics (Abstract & Bio)
14.30 Sjors Righters (studio rigters, NL): Concepts of the virtual sandbox and how to change them  (Abstract & Bio)
15.30 BREAK & Coffee
16.00 Jörg Piringer (AT): text=code=play (Abstract & Bio)
17.00 Daniel Hackbarth (D/CH): Gamification of Politics (Abstract & Bio)
18.00 Guido Berger (ZHCH): Playing Farming Simulator (CH) (Abstract & Bio)
   

And then visit and experiment with the DIGITAL ART ZURICH 20-30 OCTOBER​

Program*: Friday, 21. October, Room 5.K12

13.00 Opening
13.15 Sonia Fizek (Cologne Gamelab, D): Playing at a Distance (Abstract & Bio)
14.15 Max Moswitzer (Artist, Experimental Gameculture AW Wien): Avatar at Play (Abstract & Bio)
15.15 Experiments in Action: Sebastian Burckhardt (CH): Kloppyssimo (Abstract & Bio)
15.40 Experiments in Action: Kathleen Bohren) (CH): Accalmie (Abstract & Bio)
16.00 BREAK & Coffee
16.30 Nathalie Lawhead (US): The Joy of Silly Useless Software (Abstract & Bio)
17:30 Conference Closing & IGDA Schweiz Apéro

​And then visit, and experiment with the DIGITAL ART ZURICH 20-30 OCTOBER​

Pictures from 2021

Pictures from 2019

Fee

Free talks. Feel free to come and discuss.

Contact

Twitter: @gamelabch
Twitter Hash: #gamezandrulez
Phone: +41 79 364 33 72
Email: info@gamezandrulez.ch

Organisation

International Conference "Gamez & ruleZ" Nr. 6 at Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK, Switzerland, organized by Mela Kocher from the master's program Game Design and the management of the GameLab, Beat Suter and René Bauer. 

People at gameZAndRulez or/and gameZFestival in the past

M. Heubi (CH), Dario Hardmeier (CH) & Sam Jordan (CH/NL), Reece Millidge - Damp Gnat (UK), Stephan Schwingeler (D), Margarete Jahrmann (AT/CH), Mobiles Kino (CH), Jeremy Spillmann - Feinheit (CH), Tobias Bilgeri - Black Pants (D), Jogi Neufeld - Subotron (AT), AND-OR (CH), Mario von Rickenbach (CH), Filip Kostovic (CH), Tom Felber (Zürich), Ulrich Blum (Köln), Gebrüder Frei (Bern), Ivo Vasella - Outlane (CH), Christer Karlsson - Stockholm (SWE), Mark Butler - Berlin (DE), Livio Lunin (CH), Reto Senn (CH), Dragica Kahlina (CH), Daniel Sciboz (CH), Daniel Lutz - Montreal (CAN), Joost van Dongen - Utrecht (NL), Philomena Schwab (CH), Beat Suter (CH), René Bauer (CH), Max Moswitzer (CH), Reiner Knizia - London (UK), Urs Hostettler (CH), Don Schmocker (CH), Carlo Fabricatore (UK),  Staffan Björk (SE), Wolfgang Walk (DE), Renzo Thönen (CH), Mischa Geiser (CH), Don Schmocker (CH), Florian Faller (CH), Adrian Stutz (CH), Annika Waern (SE), Jesper Juul (DK), Flurin Jenal (CH), Philipp Stern (CH), René Krebs (CH), Nicolas Matter (CH), Andreas Halter (CH), Isabel Schacher (CH), Stefan Schmidlin (CH), Michael Müller (CH), David Krummenacher (CH), Patrick Selbert (CH), Filipe Simonette (CH), Julie Bächtold (CH), Anja Fritsch (CH), Tabea Iseli (CH), Luke Whittaker (UK), Katherine Bidwell (UK), Phillip Weber (PL), Dragica Kahlina (CH), Caecilia Charbonnier (CH), Sylvain Chagué (CH), Tobias Baumann (CN), Max Striebel (CH), Martina Hugentobler (CH), Melanie Vetterli (CH), Florian Müller (AUS), Mela Kocher(CH), Anna Martin-Niedecken (CH), Petr Pouchly (CZ), Sarah Celebioglu (D), Pas Schmid (CH), Philomena Schwab (CH), Aleksander Kauch (PL), Robin Baumgarten (UK/ A), Imre Hofmann (CH), Hiloko Kato (D/ CH), Miguel Sicar (DK), Patrick Winkler (DE), Max Rheiner (CH), Rebecca Goodine (CA), David Javet (CH), Sina Els (DE), René Bauer (CH), Andres Bucher (CH), Julia Bohren (CH), Simon Broggi (CH), Annika Rüeggsegger (CH), Yannic Hungerbühler (CH), Sascha Scherrer (CH), Luca Rossetto (CH), Ayane Stämpfli (CH),  Patrick Frass (CH), Thorsten Michael Rehbogen (CH), Dennis Reimer (CH), Dennis Bodenmann (CH), Eric Schärrer (CH), Micha Stettler (CH), Luca Cannellotto (CH),  Michelle Westerlaken (SWE), Gordan Savicic (AT/CH), Sonja Böckler (CH), Yanick Lukic (CH), Benjamin Andermatt (CH), Max Moswitzer  (AT/CH), David Stark (CH), Basil Weber (CH), Ryan Green (USA), Günther Hack (A), Michael Cook (UK), Daniel Bisig (CH), Roman Werner (CH), Guido Berger  (CH), Renzo Thönen (CH),  Silvan Bauser (CH), Jakub Dvorsky (CZ), Konglomerat M.I.D.I. (CH), Beat Kunz (CH), Arno Justus (CH), Selina Capol (CH), Andres Bucher (CH), Julia Bohren (CH), Marcel Arioli (CH), Sebastiaan Cator (CH), Jeremias Baur (CH), Severin Walker (CH), Teodora Dimova (CH), Michel Ziegler (CH), Anja Fritsch (CH), Mary Flanagan (USA), Michela Rimensberger (CH), Adam Mayes and Ulf Benjaminsson (FN), Stefan Schmidlin (CH), Robert Glashüttner (AT), Goran Saric (CH), Adam Moravanszky (CH), Alice Ruppert (CH), Jana Sloan van Geest (DE), Tarn Adams (US)