Co-directed by Luca Carrubba and Eurídice Cabañes, ArsGames is behind the most successful national exhibitions focused on video games in recent years. At BetaCamp XR streamingPARTY, they presented a series of works included in the online exhibition BiennaleVR – 01. Experimental video games created by artists, designers and digital developers that reflect on fabulation as a key to understanding the world of today, using technological innovation and detailed gameplay.
Games have proved to have an impact outside of the screens, they are not only an economical powerforce internationally, but also a consistent socialitation tool, having impact on political issues like feminism, human rights, violence but also urbanism, environmental crisis or human migration. To promote these ideas, ArsGames have been involved in the development of several exhibitions: https://arsgames.net/exposiciones/ Among their projects presented their first VR Biennale, the interactive sound installation Audiogames by Carlos Padial and Bicélula, the artistic and acoustic investigation of aural architectures Resonant Spaces: WasteLands by Mathias Klenner, Sofía Balbontín and Joan Lavandeira; and the psychedelic sound experience Inercia created by Mónika Rikić, Rodolfo Venegas and Xavier Maixenchs).