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 physical artifacts into a self playing machine. The project expands upon Paidia Laboratory: Feedback realizing a Rube Goldberg machine that crosses boundaries of platforms, interfaces and genres.

Participants: Björn Theis, Jonas Hansen, Karin Lingnau, Lasse Scherffig, Sebastian Thewes, Thomas Hawranke

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 ...

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".

The workshop Point&Click generated a number of projects that deal with adventure games and online and offline worlds. The projects take the form of experiments, games and interventions. They are presented at the computer game conference "Next Level" on April, 20th-21st. In addition, a reader featuring the projects is in print. It can be obtained at the conference, a PDF can be found at: http://pixelsix.net/pointclick/