Cancelled: LUDIC SOIRÉE Acts Of Play with Christoph Frey
An event of the Department of Experimental Game Cultures
Media artist Christoph Frey provides an overview of his interactive works and uses examples to describe the practice
and theory behind his approach. The focus is on his experimental video game “The Space Between,” a 40-50 minute horror experience
in three acts. Using the game as a starting point, he talks about the visual, acoustic, and thematic aspects of his work and
how the act of play during game development itself becomes an important creative process in exploring and sharpening themes
and emotional spaces. The act of play thus resembles an act of a theater play, that you improvise to yourself in order to
better understand it and engage with it, to play yourself towards it.
Christoph Frey is an Austrian media artist, who sees his field of work in experimental films and sound design, as well as
in the field of experimental videogames. In 2020 his videogame „The Space Between“ won the Independent Games Festival’s Nuovo
Award during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. He is currently living and working in Linz, Upper Austria.
