GLOBALE: Global Games

With the »Global Games« exhibition ZKM | Karlsruhe is responding to the increasing relevance of and latest developments in computer gaming. Having impressively proved the artistic potential of the computer game with the ZKM_Gameplay (2013) exhibition, computer games are categorised as expressive media in the overall context of the GLOBAL art event with »Global Games«. The effects of globalisation and digitalisation and references to the real world are clearly reflected in computer games. Games deal, among other things with the Syria conflict, the use of drones in war zones, the global economic context of the globalised financial market and the situation of refugees at European borders. Computer games are certainly not to be construed as a purely western phenomenon but rather a global medium. It’s not just users that play globally networked to each other but games are also produced all over the world.

»Global Games« is designed to be interactive: games can be played in the exhibition. A so - called »Let’s Play« video is also presented with each game that shows how the game works