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The cycle Paidia Laboratory: feedback examines computer games as closed feedback systems. In an ongoing series of artistic experiments the feedback behaviour of games is studied, by coupling their in- and output through modifications of hard- and software. The focus lies not on the usability of games, but rather on an archeology of interaction – determining the limits and boundaries of games in order to understand the media specific characteristics of computer games.

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Paidia Institute, Noarte paese museo and officinevida present returnable 20II an interventional format curated by Susanna Schoenberg 27-29 November 2011, Sardinia (I) Producing field recordings and refeeding realities, marking territory and producing public voice in the South of Sardinia. [caption id="attachment_438" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="from left: Franziska Windisch COAL ROOM 2011, Susanna Schoenberg EXTERIOR #20090311_0058 2009, Malgorzata Calusinska AUFFALTUNG 2009"][/caption] returnable: a fitting specification for this short program of artistic research on field–while looking ...

Paidia Institute is part of the exhibition and panel programme of Next Level Conference 2011. As part of the conference, Paidia Institute takes part in Cologne's Long Night of Museums 2011 as well. In a panel on game art education, Jonas Hansen will present game art developments at KHM and Paidia Institute. In the exhibition, a workshop/laboratory/installation project is shown which couples a number of computer games, controllers and ...

Paidia Institute will be part of the Platine 2011 (Cologne, August 15th-19th) with the Paidia Laboratory: Feedback. „I was walking down Granville Street […] and I was looking into one of the video arcades. I could see in the physical intensity of their postures how rapt the kids inside were. It was like one of those closed systems out of a Pynchon novel: a feedback loop with photons coming ...

Following the four week workshop eNTERFACE'09 in Genova in 2009, two articles on gaming with the brain have been published. They are based on the game Bacteria Hunt that combines Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology with traditional (keyboard) input in an action game setting. Experiments with the game inquire the possibility of affecting the game world and its rules by measuring spontaneus brain activity (alpha-power) and stimulus induced activity ...

Eight+, the result of the last Play09 Game Lab, will be presented on the gamescom (18.-22.08.2010, Cologne) at the Creative Gaming booth. From the last exhibition at the AMAZE.Interact Festival the game was again completely redesigned and will now be shown as Eight++.

August 16th-19th, 2010, Cologne PLATINE festival showcases electronic media ranging from art to alternative forms of gaming. The works are shown in local pubs and offices in Cologne Ehrenfeld. Among the works shown are CollecTic and Thumbs Down by Jonas Hansen. Web: http://www.platine-cologne.de

Hyperkult is an annual workshop/symposium on computer science, culture and society at Leuphana University Lüneburg. This year's theme is "Mobiles - You Are Now Here". The Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) participates with a talk/performance entitled "Context Aware Devices - Context Aware Users" presenting artistic strategies for mobile devices and data spaces. The presentation is given by Jonas Hansen, Thomas Hawranke and ...

The Book "Code und Material: Exkursionen ins Undingliche" published by Springer Wien/New York and editied by Georg Trogemann covers scientific and art projects of Lab3, Laboratory for Experimental Computer Science. Included are projects and texts by Paidia Institute founding members Thomas Hawranke, Karin Lingnau,  Lasse Scherffig and Susanna Schoenberg. http://interface.khm.de/index.php/news/new-book-code-und-material/

Paidia Institue is introducing itself with a combined talk/performance at the next level conference. We are part of the panel on "Games and Art".