Next Level Festival for Games

Organizer: NRW KULTURsekretariat

Next Level: The Festival for the Art and Culture of Digital Games

For more than ten years, the “Next Level – Festival for Games” has been exploring interactive and participatory models of digital games culture and shedding light on their potential and perspectives. The very first “Next Level Conference” in Cologne in April 2010 not only generated a nationwide media response, but also shaped and advanced the discourse on the relevance of digital games as a cultural asset and cultural technique. The multi-day event organised by the NRW KULTURsekretariat has long since established itself as a unique nationwide resonance space for the focused examination of the art and culture of digital games.

Like no other event in the field of tension between digital art forms and analogue experience formats, Next Level sheds light on exemplary media art in the context of games and, in an exciting mix of performances and exhibitions, impulses and discussions, workshops and laboratories and workshops together with many partners, addresses different target groups who have one thing in common: an interest in games and in gaming at a high level.

With its variety of current topics and innovative formats, Next Level is highly successful in bringing together those responsible for art and culture and playfully connecting players from the games industry and cultural education, media artists, developers, journalists, pupils, their parents and teachers as well as gamers of all ages.

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