Come Out & Play

Come Out & Play Festival to transform Amsterdam into a playground

Play Snake live in the Nieuwmarkt, hunt ‘gangsters’ with GPS

Amsterdam, 27 August 2007 - The hugely successful New York urban games festival ‘Come Out & Play’ is to make its Dutch debut on 28 and 29 September. For two days, a variety of urban games will be played out on Amsterdam streets as part of the PICNIC’07 cross-media week.

Urban games are a new type of play in which a city, in this case Amsterdam, is not just a backdrop, but a player: ‘the city as playground’. For two days, various games will be played for real at easy-to-reach locations across Amsterdam – a mashup of games, the public and technology.

For the Amsterdam version, the organisers have spent the last few months inviting creative minds in the Netherlands and abroad to submit game concepts for a Come out & Play festival during PICNIC’07. To be in, concepts had to be innovative, make interesting use of public space and get players working together in a way that’s fun. Out of these, a final programme has been chosen that will be physically played out on the streets during PICNIC’07. For a complete overview, go to http://picnicnetwork.org/coap.

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Daniel Langlois Foundation

To mark the tenth anniversary of the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology (DLF), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present works by ten artists from Canada and abroad who have received funding from the DLF over the years. Curated by the Foundation's executive director Jean Gagon, the exhibition Communicating Vessels: New Technologies and Contemporary Art - Ten Years of Accomplishments by the Daniel Langlois Foundation (e-art) will feature artists who have defined and continue to define the merging of art with electronic and digital technology. The works presented will demonstrate the entanglement of art and science, the real and the virtual, human language and the language of machines, and interactive space and its human users.

Works by the following artists will be presented in the exhibition: Philip Beesley (Canada), Jim Campbell (USA), Marie Chouinard (Canada), Luc Courchesne (Canada), Jessica Field (Canada), Lynn Hershman Leeson (USA), Eduardo Kac (Brazil/USA), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico/Canada), Catherine Richards (Canada), and David Rokeby (Canada).

This exhibition is a co-production of the Daniel Langlois Foundation and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

September 20 to December 9, 2007
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Free admission

http://www.fondation-langlois.org /