During a four day workshop, the adventure game genre is analysed and strategies of applying its rules to public space are developed. What is the relation of classic street games to the digital adventures of the computer game age? How did street games influence video games and how do pixel based games act back onto urban activities?

The possibilities to generate changes in the textile’s surface and color, or to improve their technical characteristics are some areas of research today. Based on a series of examples, this presentation introduces wearable technologies and smart textiles and will point out some of the paradigmatic changes that have occurred in the definition of form and surfaces from an interactive point of view.

At the 12th edition of the VIDA awards for Art and Artifical Life, › CONNECT by Andeas Muxel was awarded the second prize. The piece will be shown at ARCO, Contemporary Art Madrid from February 17th until 21st.

The installation › The Leak by Thomas Hawranke is shown at the festival TEMPS D’IMAGES at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf.

At the art gallery of SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 in Yokohama, Japan the performance › INsideOUT by Claudia Robles is shown.