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 Video game manipulators can be seen as activists. But there are also game detournements/mods/hacks that are not political, but rather poetic, aesthetic or contemplative. Artists and game makers provide another point of view to the game industry by using the game aesthetic, or by hacking games to provide a gaming experience and create a distance towards the world we live in.  Video game manipulators can be seen as activists. But there are also game detournements/mods/hacks that are not political, but rather poetic, aesthetic or contemplative. Artists and game makers provide another point of view to the game industry by using the game aesthetic, or by hacking games to provide a gaming experience and create a distance towards the world we live in. 
  
-**Types of artworks of a game art exhibit:  +==== Types of artworks of a game art exhibit ==== 
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-Creation related to video games in installation, video installation, virtual reality, websites, cinema, visual or  sound or network performances. +  * Creation related to video games in installation, video installation, virtual reality, websites, cinema, visual or  sound or network performances 
-Films conceived with video games like machinimas +  * Films created with video games, such as machinimas 
-Interactive works questioning the idea of game or information society +  * Interactive works questioning the idea of game or information society 
-Artworks questioning the notion of play space +  * Artworks questioning the notion of play space 
-Collective performances that transform the space into a playground (the city as a play space to question social, cultural environmental and political issues) +  * Collective performances that transform the space into a playground (the city as a play space to question social, cultural environmental and political issues) 
-Playful collective experiences  cracking urban architecture +  * Playful collective experiences cracking urban architecture 
-Workshops around gaming with artists, filmmakers and musicians.  +  * Workshops around gaming with artists, filmmakers and musicians 
-Cracking game cartridges or consoles to create glitches or chiptunes music +  * Cracking game cartridges or consoles to create glitches or chiptunes music 
  
-**Types of games :  +==== Types of games ==== 
-** +  * Radical games, political games, alternative games, games with a strong aesthetic dimension, games with an original or remarkable gameplay, game whose conditions of production are specific to the exhibition (games produced in the framework of workshops or festivals), Works or games that correspond to the theme, that make sense in terms of the message to be brought by the event, exhibition.  
-Radical games, political games, alternative games, games with a strong aesthetic dimension, games with an original or remarkable gameplay , game whose conditions of production are specific to the exhibition (games produced in the framework of workshops or festivals), Works or games that correspond to the theme, that make sense in terms of the message to be brought by the event, exhibition.  +  * Games that have been designed for an exhibition or games that respond to each other and make the whole exhibition coherent (narrative, story, sub-themes, etc.) 
- +  * Games that explore: the power of simulation and representation, collaborative networks in games, the transformation of urban and informational space into a playground, Games versus networks, The border between reality and fiction, The question of control, The critique of the interactive image, The transgressive power of the game 
-Games that have been designed for an exhibition or games that respond to each other and make the whole exhibition coherent (narrative, story, sub-themes, etc.) +  * Any type of game (computer/video/online/traditional/performance) can be exhibited but within its exhibition,  we shift the perspective on games from their banal domestic use to create: a collective reappropriation of their gameplay; the backstage of their creation ( 2D/3Dartworks, design, gameplay conception, sketches); another dimension of playability (notion of spectacularization of the game, through set design, projection, playful context, collaborative experience)
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-Games that explore : the power of simulation and representation, collaborative networks in games, the transformation of urban and informational space into a playground, Games versus networks, The border between reality and fiction, The question of control, The critique of the interactive image, The transgressive power of the game,... +
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-Any type of game (computer/video/online/traditional/performance) can be exhibited but within its exhibition,  we shift the perspective on games from their banal domestic use to create : +
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-  * a collective reappropriation of their gameplay +
-  * the backstage of their creation ( 2D/3Dartworks, design, gameplay conception, sketches)  +
-  * another dimension of playability (notion of spectacularization of the game, through set design, projection, playful context, collaborative experience)+
  
 The idea is to transform a game into a medium that will provide a distanced reading of a subject. The idea is to transform a game into a medium that will provide a distanced reading of a subject.
  
-**Notions** that can be explored through a gaming exhibition : +**Notions** that can be explored through a gaming exhibition:
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-Games as structure (system, rules, complexity) +
-Games as simulacra (aesthetic, immersion, simulation) +
-Games as narration (scenario, writing, commitment) +
-Games as exchange (interaction, networks, communities)+
  
 +  * Games as structure (system, rules, complexity)
 +  * Games as simulacra (aesthetic, immersion, simulation)
 +  * Games as narration (scenario, writing, commitment)
 +  * Games as exchange (interaction, networks, communities)
  
  
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-Add yourself if you edited something+Jim Munroe
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