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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 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 ...

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

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/

Eight+ is an user-generated-content-post-new-rave-multiplayer-shooter, that we developed at the play09 game lab in Potsdam last december. Now it will be shown at the Amaze Interact Festival at Club Transmediale 10 from January 29th till Februari 6th 2010.