Games Night & Closing Celebrations
To celebrate the closing of the show and residency, artist Jazmin Morris invited us to join in a games night inside Modal gallery. All games being exhibited were available to play whilst people were encouraged to bring their own hand held consoles or tabletop games.
During the evening, Jazmin pulled Tarot from Suzanne Tresister’s Hexen 2.0.
It was an opportunity to play, meet like-minded people, enjoy free food and refreshments whilst squeezing in some final critical conversations as part of Sandbox.
About Sandbox
Inspired by play, exchange of knowledge, the theme of worlding*, and using creative computing and games design as mediums for social/political criticism, Jazmin Morris re-imagines Modal gallery as a community resource. Featuring workshops, a games night and an open-access library, Morris looks to disrupt and push the boundaries of knowledge sharing and traditional archiving, situating carefully curated media as a tool for collective resistance and liberation. A response to gaps in access to cultural and educational experiences, Sandbox is a call and part of a long term ambition to envision more radical systems for learning, critical thinking and restorative practices and the potential of code and technologies.
Sandbox is part of Commons, a joint commitment by Abandon Normal Devices and the School of Digital Arts (SODA) to platform emerging art forms and push the boundaries of digital practice. Devised as a prompt to rethink our approaches to digital practices, the programme and ask explores if we can develop new models for commissioning, experiencing, interpreting and preserving digital art that reflect the inherent values of digital culture.
Commons is a unique programme fostering innovative approaches to digital practice, inviting digital practitioners to draw upon new opportunities for collaborating, making and resourcing. Selected artists have been invited to showcase recent works whilst developing new and ambitious projects within a community of artists, researchers and technologists.
This programme is a collaboration between Abandon Normal Devices (AND) and Modal gallery at Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Arts (SODA). AND is supported with public funding from Arts Council England.