Artist Statement

“Creative Games” is a new emerging discipline at the crossroads of Computer Games, Media Art, Architecture and Urban Planning, Heritage and Advanced Digital Technologies.

• Mathias Fuchs has pioneered in the field of artistic use of games and is a leading theoretician on Game Art and Games Studies. He is an artist, musician, media critic and currently Professor for Segmented Media Offerings at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His work has been shown at ISEA94, ISEA2004 and 2011, resfest, ars electronica, PSi #11, futuresonic, EAST, the Greenwich Millennium Dome. Mathias Fuchs has been a university lecturer at University of Applied Arts Vienna, The University for Industrial Design in Linz, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the University of Salford in Greater Manchester, at University of Potsdam, and at the University of Lüneburg. Recent publications include kendinize bir hayat edinin! (in Ekmel Ertan: interpasif persona. Istanbul 2010); Sinn und Sound (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin 2011); Passagen des Spiels II (Fuchs & Strouhal, eds. Vienna 2010); Ludic Interfaces (in Catlow, Garrett & Morgana: Artists Re:thinking Games Liverpool 2010).

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