Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange May 2018, AMATA June 2018, Cornwall ( UK)
The second edition of the Games as Arts / Arts as Games festival focuses on the polysemic concept of Play and brings together four contemporary artists / art collectives and four video game designers. The festival was organised in partnership with the Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange and the Academy of Music and Theatre Arts (AMATA) at Falmouth University.
The programme showcased live music and dance, robotic and human performances, audio installations, a mix of peripatetic performance and a game, interactive artworks and video games. All the pieces presented different meanings of play and seek to look further into the intricate relationship between games and performance. This festival enables exchanges between the worlds of games and performing arts. Through an exploration of the concepts of time-space-movement and the notion of play, the selected pieces broadly share notions and techniques across forms. Many of the works presented are hybrid forms of theatre, dance, music, audio installations and video games.
Featuring works of Blast Theory, Kondition Pluriel, Stéphane Bissières, Petra Gemeinboeckand and Rob Saunders, games by Game Oven, Die Gute Fabrik, Robin Baumgarten and @thosemetamakers.
Bounden, Game Oven 
Clapping Drives, Stéphane Bissières
Petra Gemeinboeck & Rob Saunders, Machine Movement Lab, Cube Performer #1, at AMATA, Penryn campus, 2018.