Hide and Seek Festival
Hide and Seek is a festival of social games and playful experiences. The last event took place in London between the 27th and the 29th of June 2008. It encompassed everything from fine artists making location-based work to huge flashmob games within the public spaces of the Southbank Centre.
The festival celebrates the creative and social aspects of gaming, and invites artists from all disciplines to experiment with game design as a creative tool. 2008 saw projects from Blast Theory, Gideon Reeling, Momus, Jane McGonigal, and Coney, as well as parties, seminars, and a bunch of low-tech, high-fun games from the Sandpit.
The focal point of the festival was the Ballroom at the Royal Festival Hall, where players could sign up for the big events, hire out devices to try GPS gaming, play Sandpit games, and interact with a variety of weird and playful installations.
Psycho Buildings at The Hayward
The exhibition brought together the work of artists who create habitat-like structures and architectural environments. You were able to become an adventurous participant as you explored The Hayward's spaces inside and out, including a room frozen in a moment of explosive disaster, an eerie village of over 200 dollhouses, a floating plastic cloud and a skyline boating pond. To find out more about the exhibition which marked The Hayward's 40th anniversary as one of the world's most architecturally unique exhibition venues.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/hayward-exhibitions/psycho-buildings
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The Sandpit
The Sandpit is a monthly playtesting night for Hide and Seek, a festival of social games and playful experiences. The Sandpit takes place in a variety of locations, from art galleries to underground nightclubs. Their website is home to the rulesets of some of the games they play, as well as a weblog of pointers to interesting games and game-related events across London.
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