The Coming World Game Club

A series of Game Club events organized as part of the exhibition The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 will launch with the let’s play session by one of the contributors to the show, artist Lawrence Lek, who will play the 2065 video game of his own authorship

A bug is a hilarious and annoying mistake, somewhat of a glitch in a program… But what about looking at them differently? What if using bugs enables the building of alternative relationships with computer games?

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As part of the Game Club program accompanying the exhibition The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100, Hideo Kojima will present the game Death Stranding—a new Kojima Productions product. The legendary game designer and celebrity will speak about the world of the game as well as the mechanics and ideas behind its creation.

The natural landscapes of “sandboxes” are often used as a space for reconstructing scenarios of sustainable development, as if the demonstration of virtual voxel wind generators and solar panels is supposed to turn the gamers’ attention to environmental issues. However, here lies the main contradiction between the representation of an ecosystem and the mechanics of “sandboxes”. This letsplay-format lecture by Dasha Nasonova and Dima Vesnin will explain how to distinguish between game and real types of ecology, what kind of problems are promoted by popular games, and which recently developed video games cultivate a more realistic idea of ecology.

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As part of the public program for The Coming World and Garage Digital Program, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art presents artist Lu Yang’s latest work, a video game The Great Adventure of Material World. Following the presentation, Lu Yang will discuss her creative process with the work, the connection between this latest work and her previous artworks, and the sequence of creative ideas that she has developed over the past few years.

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In a time of a proliferation of neoliberal agendas, it has become necessary to understand the forces and infrastructures that can create an opposition. “Architectures for the Commons” is the construction of a design framework that emphasizes the open source cooperation of architects with a community at large, utilizing socially enabled technology to accelerate the proliferation of value for the multitudes.

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Artist Lena Klabukova believes that currently there are no inspiring strategies in the ecological discourse and proposes engaging with recycling and the overproduction of ideas with help of video games.

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Soon after the release of Death Stranding—a new, intriguing and apparently metaphysical, video game by Hideo Kojima, Alexander Vetushinsky will discuss the philosophic challenges Kojima is addressing by his work and his unique ways of responding to them.

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As part of The Coming World Game Club accompanying the exhibition The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 and Garage Digital program, Garage invites artists, developers, and game designers to take part in Eco Jam—a hackathon dedicated to the creation of video games or prototypes of games addressing the themes raised by the show.

Starting new game, we often find ourselves stranded on the shore of the unknown landscape. The map is covered with fog, that gradually goes away as we familiarize ourselves with the surroundings.

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The artist offers participants a physical experience that will immerse them in a denser present. In a complex and rapidly changing world of multiple truths and post-truths we often need a pause—a refuge that would allow us to explore ourselves on a new level—a level different from our everyday but addressing the workings of memory.

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Performance and expanded discussion for the Game Club section of The Coming World.

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