A MAZE./

SHEFFIELD

Aug.2nd.2024

GLUM Special Party Edition

Friday August 2nd

The Berlin-based international games and playful media label A MAZE. will hold their first ever event in the UK, in the Steel City of Sheffield. An annual international festival and platform of arthouse games and playful media, A MAZE. have held acclaimed events at various locations around the world - including South Africa, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Cuba and Kenya - supporting a global movement of independent and meaningful games culture.

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GLUM Special Party Edition

a one day event that will feature digital interactive exhibits, alternative controller and video games, HyperTalks, DJs and VJs, across a daytime and evening programme.

Games
Hypertalks
Workshops
Hyperwobbler

Hyper Wobbler is an interactive multiplayer art installation, where 3 participants control multi-dimensional beings trying to make sense of their universe and navigate it to reach their goals. The installation uses metal spring joysticks and a dodecahedron with 900 LEDs and two-way mirror faces.

Crashboard

Crashboard is a surfing cyberspace game controlled by a real skateboard. In the game, you have to avoid waves of operating system windows pop-up interface scrolling in your direction. You control the player position by leaning on the skateboard. The aesthetic of the game is crafted from glitch, retro web design and error system.

Between

Between is a game that uses projection to illuminate the space between two people. Two players sit face to face and hold hands, which creates a geometric shape between them. They move their bodies together to fit outlines on the floor, creating a performance for the audience.

Waxwing

A two-player cooperative navigation game where players work together to guide a series of tragic heroes through obstacle-filled corridors en route to a climactic confrontation with the sun.

Gang Beasts

Gang Beasts is a silly multiplayer party game with surly gelatinous characters, brutal mêlée fight sequences, and absurdly hazardous environments. Set in the fictional meatropolis of Beef City.

Singing Rainbow

Singing Rainbow is a collaborative multiplayer dome game. This work is inspired by crowd games. This audio-reactive playful art piece brings people together to sing along different notes.

Sarah Brin

Sarah Brin is a creative industries specialist and Strategy Director for Good Afternoon. She has unique expertise with both business development and production methodologies to bring ambitious creative technology projects to life, and she has done so for brands, cultural organizations and governments you’ve heard of. Sarah has worked with games since 2009 and she’s only intermittently successful at removing herself from the industry.

Emilie Breslavetz

Emilie Breslavetz is a game designer and playful artist based in Paris creating experimental video games, alternative controllers and interactive installations.

Phoenix Perry

Dr. Phoenix Perry is a leading expert in developing accessible machine learning tools and founding value-driven creative coding organizations. As a Reader in Games and Creative Technologies and the founding Course Leader for the MSc in Creative Computing at the University of the Arts London, Perry integrates embodied gaming, inclusive design, and advanced machine learning in interactive systems.

Nick Murray

Nick Murray is a producer, composer and artist making interactive sonic and narrative work focusing on loss and digital cultures. This often takes the form of games, interactive poetry and performance. Most recently it looks like mystic Tamagotchis and Godzilla boardgames. Nick is lead producer for Now Play This at Somerset House and Director of Playing Poetry.

Claire Kwong

Claire Kwong connects art and technology to make people move. She creates immersive environments using projection and motion capture. Her games encourage people to move, communicate, and touch. Claire aims to dramatize her own experiences and challenge social boundaries. She lives in New York City.

COMING SOON!

Schedule

A MAZE. / Sheffield Day (free admission)

10:00 – 1:00

Exhibition including Selected Exhibits and Open Screens

10:00 – 13:00

Workshop 1: Introduction to LED Basics by Robin Baumgarten and Alex Johannson

14:00 – 17:00

Workshop 2: Pattern Club, Live Coding Workshop

15:00 – 16:00

Performance: Creative Show by Alistair Aitcheson

 

A MAZE. / Sheffield Night (10 £ admission fee and 18+)

19:00 – 3:00

Exhibition, Hypertalks and Music Performances

19:30 – 19:45

Opening Speech by Thorsten S. Wiedemann, Artistic Director A MAZE.

19:45 – 21:00

Hypertalks

21:00 – 3:00

Music Performances Live and DJ - Line Up soon!

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Location

FØRGE Warehouse - 148 Effingham Rd, Sheffield S4 7YS, United Kingdom