Ludic Society (AT/CH)

The Ludic Society is an international association of artists, game practitioners and theorists who seek to provoke a new artistic re/search discipline, best addressed as 'ludics'. The ludic society enters 'pata science fiction for adults'. "Jeu" is the french term for play, jouissance, enjoyment, but the translation does not carry the sexual orgasmic connotations that the French holds, in addition to the idea of taking pleasure in something.

Game objects, standing as object for itself and no more as interface to something else, are the actual project by the formation. They are now appearing together with guest performers as band in clubs or exhibitions. The 'cabaret voltaire' styled game-instruments are playable objects, inbetween toys and new bachelor machines. The Ludic Soceity magazine is published as a periodical with international articles on tendencies related to jouissance = enjoyment and suspence (Slavoj Žižek, 2005.) and jeu = game.

From 2003 till 2005 the Ludic Society exhibited at Postmedial Condition. Arco Electronico, Centre Conde Duque, Madrid; Transmediale06, Berlin; 2Artgames, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Postmedial Condition, Neue Galerie, Graz; Illudere ex illusion, Aegina Academy, Athens; anti-war shooter nybble-engine-toolZ, distinction Prix Ars Electronica; gameart, Weltkulturerbe Volklinger Hutte; Games. Computerspiele von Kunstlerinnen, Steelmill Phoenix West, Dortmund.