European Permacomputing Gamejam (Geneva Hub)

The Euro Permajam is a European decentralised game jam celebrating spontaneous playfulness and climate justice. After decades of searching for photo-realism and performance, the soon-to-be-over myth of perpetual growth is leaving the stage to more computationally minimal aesthetics and refocusing on the power of concept, stories and subjectivity in a scarce real-world. From this urgency to reconsider our real-time media production models, the Digital Pool of the HEAD – Genève in collaboration with Fabula proposes a time- and resource-limited game jam, to foster play with a considered ruleset, a desire for more imaginative, accessible and artistic video game productions. From October 11th to 13th, the Digital Pool of the HEAD – Genève will be one of the hubs to ensure the conditions for European new media students and artists to create computationally minimal video games and real-time media artworks that will feature in a European competition organised and hosted online. Each hub's winning entry competes for the main Permajam prizes, awarded by an international jury and the public on November 6th. The Digital Pool of the HEAD – Genève will provide a comfortable environment, a solid WiFi connection, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages. PCs, laptops and any other kind of hardware you want to use are on you.