Welcome to the first Diversi Gbg Meetup!

DATE: January 28
TIME: 13.00 – 16.00
LOCATION: GG Bar Kapellgatan 12
Diversi is a collective force working for greater diversity within the gaming sphere. By enabling people from games industry, educational institutions  and communities to support each other’s diversity efforts, we strive to promote an inclusive culture where everyone can feel welcome. Now it’s time to initiate the local chapter in Gothenburg and you’re welcome to join in! The meetup will include an introduction to Diversi and local initiatives, followed by discussion about the future of activities in Gothenburg. The meet-up will be held at the new nerd and e-sports bar GG Bar.   GET YOUR FREE TICKET

PROGRAM

  Intro to Diversi
  Intro to local diversity initiatives
Collaboratory, Epic Unidragon, Spelkultur för alla, Nördfeminism, LajvVerkstaden, #isisnerdfeminism, Gaming for everyone
  Discussion – the future of Diversi Gothenburg

  
Diversi is a non-profit organisation with a large network that includes the vast majority of Sweden’s AAA developers, indies, industry organisations such as Swedish Games Industry and Association of Swedish Game Developers, university and vocational school programmes, e-sports and community organisations.

The event is supported by

 
PII is both a game and experience design studio, and a platform that supports research, start-ups, indie devs and diversity in game culture and game technology.

GG Bar is Swedens first nerd and e-sports bar.

 Collaboratory is a game innovation lab including start-up support, makerspace, art/design studio and collective.

Spelkultur för alla drömmer om en jämställd och tillgänglig spelkultur. Vi – konstnären Siri Landgren och spelvetaren Kjell Håftén – arbetar med offentliga evenemang där vi presenterar och analyserar spelkulturens olika sidor ur ett normkritiskt perspektiv: Vilka är representerade i dataspelen? Hur ser spelens publik ut? Vad kan spelkultur betyda för människor, och hur kan vi se till att den är tillgänglig för fler? Under dessa träffar bjuder vi in er att diskutera tillsammans med oss, dela med er av era erfarenheter och upptäcka nya spel och tankar. En Spelkultur-kväll kan bestå av filmvisning, provspelning av normbrytande spel, föreläsning och avslutas alltid med en gemensam diskussion – allt för att visa på den bredd som finns, och som måste finnas, inom spelkulturen.

Josefin Westborg har under flera år jobbat aktivt med nördfeministiska frågor och föreläser regelbundet på konvent och universitet över hela landet om just jämställdhet och inkludering.LajvVerkstaden jobbar med lajv (levande rollspel) som kulturform och pedagogiskt verktyg. Genom att levandegöra undervisning och sätta kunskap i en kontext vill vi skapa modigare människor som tar ansvar för sig själva och sin omvärld.

Intersektionell feministisk förening som satsar på att skapa en lista på servrar som har hård moderering. Vi publicerar även ett utkast på standardregler för det sociala.

#isisnerdfeminism är ett privat initiativ med fokus på nördfeminism som huvudsakligen arrangerar i Göteborg. 

Global Game Jam 2016

DATE: January 29-31
TIME: Friday 29/1, jam theme is announced 17.00, check-in, talks etc start 15.00
LOCATION: 
Vera Sandbergs allé 8

Partner locations
Epic Unidragon Masthuggskajen
GG Bar Kapellgatan 12

Global Game Jam
The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations. The weekend stirs a global creative buzz in games, while at the same time exploring the process of development, be it programming, iterative design, narrative exploration or artistic expression. It is all condensed into a 48 hour development cycle. The GGJ encourages people with all kinds of backgrounds to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity.

Sign up for the Gothenburg jam here http://globalgamejam.org/2016/jam-sites/collaboratory 

Some stuff happening
Friday – Sunday
Free lunch and snacks on location for everyone.
Table booked at GG Bar for those who are above 18 and want to grab dinner together in the evening, everyone pays for themselves, needs to be booked in advance.

Saturday
##### Sarofer Zertaga is a data rainbow filled with noise passion, be prepared to feel the 8-bit fashion #############

The event is supported by

 
Collaboratory is a game and innovation lab including start-up support, makerspace, art/design studio and collective.

 
PII is both a game and experience design studio, and a platform that supports research, start-ups, indie devs and diversity in game culture and game technology.

 The Epic Unidragon is Swedens only first and game gallery.

 Ghost Games are EA Studios located in Gothenburg, Guildford & Bucharest.

Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, Göteborgs universitet

Festival for electronic arts

DATE: 1-6 February, the program is updated before and during the festival, check the Facebook page for latest updates.

TIME: Time slots will be published regularly during the festival.

LOCATION: Epic Unidragon Masthuggskajen

Partner locations
GG Bar Kapellgatan 12

CALL FOR ARTISTS!
Artists are welcome to exhibit/screen/build electronic/interactive/moving image art, send your proposals to jasmine(at)maker.ninja

Electrodome
Electrodome is a festival for electronic, interactive and moving image art that happens during winter and summer. Founded by curator/artist Idun in 2014, this concept is planned to be a permanent venue and lab for electronic and interactive arts, as well as yearly festivals (including crossmedia, transmedia, experience design art). 

Currently the home of the festival is at the Epic Unidragon game gallery but collaborations and global events are welcome. As digital culture is highly discriminated in the culture institutions in Sweden, Gothenburg in particular, the gallery and festival are important spaces for all artists working with games and other digital and interactive expressions. Diversity, personal freedom and equality is the highest priority and anyone is welcome to propose events and works to exhibit/host in the gallery and at the festival. Background, age, gender, technology etc. does not matter as long as it is not the traditional art forms that already have plenty of spaces/funding (traditional theatre/painting/sculpture etc).

The event is supported by

 
The Epic Unidragon is Swedens only game gallery.

 
PII is both a game and experience design studio, and a platform that supports research, start-ups, indie devs and diversity in game culture and game technology.e