In this second episode on the micro publishing series Briefs (ETA 6th of July 2022) the game developer and artist in exile Evgeni Puzankov explains us why he made a game about dating a duck assassin with a steel beak that refuses the use of vowels for political reasons.

In this first episode on the micro publishing series Briefs (ETA 6th of July 2022) the narrative designer and translator Eva Jucci talks about her creation, the art of text based labyrinths and, of course, how to pronounce a black Parallelpipedon that one randomly encounters in a yellow field.

gold extra's Charlie Zechenter talks to Aleksandra Jarosz about game development and -psychology.

Aleksandra Jarosz is a Polish game designer and researcher. She speaks about her personal gaming history and how it influenced her game development ideas. Her background in psychology Aleksandra influenced her works Fantastic Fetus (a sarcastic pregnacy Tamagotchi) and Indygo (a game in depression). She shares insights in her projects on psychology in games and the game development of Indygo.

Aleksandra Jarosz is a psychologist and game designer at Purple Lamp Studio, Vienna. Her best known games are Fantastic Fetus and Indygo. Her PhD project at the Academy of Arts, Katowice, explored personality measurement in games.

Reinhold Bidner talks to creative director Kris Hofmann about virtual worlds, animated augmented reality documentaries, unreal fish fingers and insect decline.

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Charlie talks to Bernard Gwiggner about Sculptures, Monuments and their performative context.

Bernhard Gwiggner speaks about the roles of monuments today and gves his perspective on counter monuments as temporary interventions. He explains contexts of three of his works which deal with Nazi sculptures in public space (Contra Position), prisons (Cell 2014) and a memorial on the resistance movement against Nazis in Neumarkt/Salzburg (Austria), which is currently in production. All his works deal with playful participatory interactions as a main component of the sculptural work.

Bernhard Gwiggner is a sculptor (Salzburg Mozarteum; Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) and a professor at the Department of Fine Arts in Innsbruck and Salzburg. He created numerous artworks, often as temporary sculptural projects in public space blending political contexts and performative aspects.

Visit Bernhards website at: www.gwiggner.com

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Reinhold Bidner talks with with Leo Lass from Depart about hyperpoetic approaches and explores uncanny valleys, "actitechture" and downloadable spaces. https://www.depart.at/

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In this very first episode of "The Art wire" gold extra Member Georg Hobmeier and narrative designer Evgeni Puzankov address notions of play and the curious case of child development.

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