Game/Play exhibition - UK.

Playful interaction and goal-oriented gaming explored through media arts practice. Game/Play

The exhibition opens at two different venues, in the UK and then joins, to tour as a single touring show. Game/Play is a networked national touring exhibition in the UK, focusing on the rhetorical constructs game and play. This collaboration between Q Arts, Derby and HTTP Gallery, London provides a basis for exchange and interaction between audiences, artists, curators and writers through the exhibitions and networked activity.

Projects fall under three main categories:-
installations,
independent video games,
online (networked) artworks.

Launch and tour-
Game/Play opens at two venues, HTTP galleries Q Arts.

HTTP Gallery, London.
Saturday 22 July 7pm – 9pm.
Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
http://www.http.uk.net

Q Arts, Derby:
21 July 6.30pm – 8.30pm Q Arts – Gallery
35/36 Queen Street,
Derby, DE1 3DS
http://www.q-arts.co.uk

Game/Play Artists:
Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern, Jetro Lauha, Julian Oliver, Kenta Cho, Mary Flanagan, Low Brow Trash, Paul Granjon, Simon Poulter, Giles Askham, Jakub Dvorsky, Long Journey Home, PRU, Q Club, Furtherfield, Tale of Tales.

Game/Play Writers:
Giles Askham / Jon Bird / Peter Bowcott / Javier Candeira / Rebecca Cannon / Ele Carpenter, Ruth Catlow, Louise Clements, Mary Flanagan, Marc Garrett, Keiron Gillen, Mark R Hancock, Martijn Hendriks, Pat Kane, Ana-Marija Koljanin, Maaike Lauwaert, Corrado Morgana, Patrick Lichty, Christiane Paul, Thomas Petersen, Andy Pollaine, Jonathan Willett.

- enjoy the Ermajello performance of Plankton at Q Arts,
- test drive Mary Flanagan's [giantJoystick] at HTTP,
- view the works and connect and collaborate with visitors in both galleries in the online,
multiuser spaces of Furtherfield's VisitorsStudio and Endless Forest by Tale of Tales.

Curated by Giles Askham, Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow, Corrado Morgana & Louise Clements.

Game/Play is funded by The Arts Council of England and Awards For All.