FRAG Collective

02/06/2024

We offer art material (cetris board/wood)

stavba 26ks trojúhelníků. 26 ks trojúhekníků - přepona 2,5m trámky 5x10 cm + cetris možno rozebrat a sestavit libovolně SPĚCHÁ - volejte nám na 720361043 odvoz 16. 6.

27/01/2023

Stream for day 2.

26/01/2023

💜 No Fun Collective:
How to q***r games? What q***rness in games mean beyond representation? The first czech q***r gaming collective will present not only their work, but also q***ring games as a device for subverting dominant mechanics, narratives and values in play.

💚 Future Research Art and Gaming Collective (FRAG):
Is a collective of artist, theorists and gamers based on Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. We aim at pushing the gaming experience from its professional or entertainment confines to provide us with meaningful strategies for contemporary world and art.

26/01/2023

Wanna chill with some art? 🌴

By-program of our conference will include curated selection of art games by independent game developers and artists. Slipping bodies, socialist simulators, end-of-the-world vignettes, Bill Viola. 👀

➤➤ Come hang out and play with no game proficiency required!

26/01/2023

Join us live (but come if you can)!📡 Find us on official avu stream YouTube profile or at bit.ly/beyondgaming2023 ⚡

26/01/2023

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LIVE STREAM:
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The official stream channel of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Lectures, presentations and discussions streamed live from AVU during and after the COVID-...

26/01/2023

✨TODAY!!! ✨

Start at 12.00
Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze

25/01/2023

We present our third keynote speaker: Alfie Bown, a Lecturer in Digital Media at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Does the Left Know How to Play?

Play ⋘ from childhood to videogames ⋙ is about transgression and the establishment and enforcement of rules. 🎲

Without them, desire cannot function and pleasure cannot be yielded. Since 1968, the Left has been divided by rule breakers and rule makers – but they both miss the point that there is no desire without limit and that play is a critical part of collective social life. 🧬

25/01/2023

Kateřina Kovandová,
VRmag redactor ⭐️

“The reactors are slowly dranin' away the planet's life. And one day... that will be that. The planet will die.” 🕳

Final Fantasy VII is one of the most beloved games of all time – First coming out in 1997, it tackles a bunch of serious topics, and saving the planet from a power-hungry corporation is just one of them. With the first part of its remake released in 2020, it again raises a question:

What can gaming teach us about our world? 🌍

25/01/2023

As part of the accompanying program of the VR zone, we will slightly leave the gaming context of the conference to return to gaming again at the end of the program with Vojtěch Radakulan.

The VR zone aims to open up the topic of the immersive tool and its possibilities within an artistic or alternative context. As part of Viktor Švolík 's project, we look around in the digitally deconstructed space of immersive video, the context of which is gradually revealed to us through patient micro-changes. Although the early stages of VR media and its contents cycle mainly in the spectacular handling of the image representation, Viktor Švolík's work goes against this primal wonder. It puts us in a different form of interaction with the staged situation.

Barbora Tauerová will tell us how to plan cities of the future. Is a civic participation that takes place in a VR voice chat different from one that takes place in a public forum in city hall? How does your avatar feel when moving though the virtual gardens? Questions like these we had to tackle when designing Spectra - a city for the future that lives across places and realities, linking existent and emergent urban spaces. The Spectra community is building a city for the future: a mixed-reality metropolis to help us imagine future urban spaces we actually want to live in, and to practice tackling the toughest environmental, technological, and civic challenges we’ll face this century.

Andrej Boleslavský is already a legendary figure in the Czech and foreign scenes. Andrej is a digital artist purposing technology in the fields of new media art, virtual reality, light installations, and physical computing. During the conference, he will cover his VR works that take inspiration from contemporary dance, choreographic thinking and digital technologies. He will focus on considerations and challenges while creating in the context of a small artistic production.

At the end of the block, the winner of the Chalupecký prize Vojtěch Radakulan will return us to the context of playing through a multi-channel immersive situation. A game in which the design area of Human-Computer-Interaction returns to the level of Human-Human communication. Was the transformation of the operator into a user a revolutionary moment in the field of HCI, or do we once again become communicators of the resulting solutions through the complexities of the systems with which we interact on a daily basis?

After the end of the program, we can try out games from Ondřej Trhoň 's curated selection of games from Itch.

25/01/2023

𝕷𝕺𝕷-𝕬𝖁𝖀-𝕭𝕿𝕲𝕻
Amateur League of Legends tournament is being held on 27th of January at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

Do not hesitate and apply with the team of five!

The final battle in the summoner´s rift will be accompanied by real-time analysis of a professional gaming commentator: Argam Alaverdyan

Whose nexus will last?
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