Author: Jim Munroe

We are more than half way through the Game Arts International Assembly 2021 at this point and we thought we’d give a bit of a summary of some of the highlights thus far. We chose to have Mer Grazzini doodle document the sessions to give people sense of what they were like! Here’s The New Spacemakers session:

The Game Arts International Assembly is a stretched symposium for game art curators and game community organizers.

9 sessions spread over two months. Free to one and all. And starting next week!

We have already received a number of exciting proposals for Game Arts International Assembly sessions and have started working with people to flesh them out. However, there’s still a few more days for you to submit any ideas you might have via our not-very-taxing form. For further inspiration check out our programming from our first edition. Selected sessions will receive an honorarium.

This time last year we held the first Game Arts International Assembly in Buenos Aires, and it was a pretty wonderful experience. Over twenty game arts curators, festival directors and community organizers travelled from a dozen different countries for a thinktank addressing our common challenges. Some of us explored Patagonia after, where the discussions continued.

Last year GAIN partnered with Ontario Creates and Canada Media Fund to create a new resource intended to help indies plan their exhibition and networking strategy, based on in-person interviews and surveys from 50+ creators across Canada. We’re hoping it’ll prove useful to the international community, so we’ve made the full PDF briefing available for free here.

The first Game Arts International Assembly happened in Buenos Aires at the end of November with over twenty participants having travelled from a dozen different countries.

Game Arts International Network is teaming up with Game On! El Arte en juego for an in-person, three day event to generate ideas and action plans on how to tackle our common challenges and opportunities. The first edition will be Nov. 28-30th 2019 in Buenos Aires and will have a cap of 20 attendees. The confirmed key notes are Lorenzo Pilia from A MAZE./Talk and Play (Berlin) and Marie Foulston from Wild Rumpus/V&A Museum (London).

Every year, we put a call out to like-minded groups for their favourite picture from a videogame arts event or project. In 2018 we got 23 submissions covering cities like Los Angeles, Montreal, Melbourne, Reykjavik, Bologna, Buenos Aires, London, Bari, Manila, Philadelphia, Yorkshire, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Vancouver, Tel Aviv, Boston, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Austin, Berlin & Chicago. We’re not alone — we’re part of a growing movement of collectives and organizations that view videogames through an arts and culture lens! (If you dig it feel free to signal boost the post via Facebook or Twitter.)