The workshop is organized as “Let’s play” sessions with artistic games creators, game studies scholars, theorists and philosophers. We will play video games presented in a context of the “Uncanny Dream” project and discuss the topics such as video game as artistic medium, art games mechanics etc. “In Between” by Katya Galitskaya – the game is based on a free artistic interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The main idea is that after death a human soul does not depart immediately to find its next embodiment but passes through a stage between lives. During this trip, a soul sees various illusions reproduced by the subconscious, meets both bad and good gods. The soul of the deceased person does not realise at once that it has left the physical world already. “Aeternum illud” by Xenia Obukhovskaya –the player finds her/himself in the state of emergency, which is ruled by biocontrol and totalitarian power structures. In order to escape this state, she/he should break her/his relations with the demonic sovereignty and become the subject which cannot be controlled by its rules — the inhuman being. “Soundwalk” by Anastasia Koroleva – the practice of sound walk placed in the space of the game. Each of the scenes is a sound panorama of an impersonal area that changes as the player moves. Artifacts hinting at a connection with latent spaces, located in each of the scenes, interfere with the soundscape with their character sound and crumble as close as possible to them, moving the listener to the next place, keeping his sound walk on.

Credits

Curators: Helena Nikonole, Oxana Chvyakina Artists: Fedor Balashov aka wasdswag, Katya Galitskaya, Mitry Grankov, Gray cake, Anastasia Koroleva, Yuliya Kozhemyako aka supr, Ivan Netkachev, Xenia Obukhovskaya, Rona Peshekhonova, Alexey Ryabov, Eugene Kruglov, Pavel Seldemirov, Vladimir Sheshak, Anna Shustikova, Roman Solodkov.