shut up and listen! 2011
Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art
December 8th, 2011, 18.00 (opening)
gold extra (AT)
Frontiers - A video game which leads to the borders of Europe
Presentation during the entire festival
Frontiers
Frontiers is a video game by the Austrian artist group gold extra that portrays a refugee's itinerary from Sub-
Saharan Africa to Europe. The players face up to four "border situations", and a room with research
materials. They can initially decide between the roles of refugees or border guards. The game is based on
research materials gathered at Europe's borders and is a modification of the game Half-Life2, reinterpreting
the common narrative and gaming strategies of first-person shooter games. gold extra purposefully chose the
form of a mod because it provides the opportunity to address a large gaming community: Frontiers
introduces a real social and political setting to a community of gamers and modders actively playing and
designing 3D environments, creating a new field of discourse and activism.
http://www.frontiers-game.com
gold extra
gold extra is a group of artists working in the areas of fine arts, performance, media and technologies
founded in Salzburg, Austria in 1998. The core idea of their work is to let the idea decide over the medium:
gold extra is interested in an intense and playful social research via the media of the arts and challenging
the confines of art as an institution to redefine it constantly as a matter of communication. From robots
playing Hamlet to video games. We often create ephemeral artworks that would temporarily enable the
spectator – often giving the audience an active role – to touch upon a known social matter from a surprising
angle. Their collaborative work has been awarded with grants for innovative work by the cities of Salzburg
and Linz (Austria), as well as the Federal State of Austria, several members were awarded with prizes and
grants in the field of literature, media arts, stage design, video and film.
http://www.goldextra.com/
ABOUT PROGRAMME SUAL AWARD PRESS IMPRESSUM SUAL HOME
Saharan Africa to Europe. The players face up to four "border situations", and a room with research
materials. They can initially decide between the roles of refugees or border guards. The game is based on
research materials gathered at Europe's borders and is a modification of the game Half-Life2, reinterpreting
the common narrative and gaming strategies of first-person shooter games. gold extra purposefully chose the
form of a mod because it provides the opportunity to address a large gaming community: Frontiers
introduces a real social and political setting to a community of gamers and modders actively playing and
designing 3D environments, creating a new field of discourse and activism.
http://www.frontiers-game.com
gold extra
gold extra is a group of artists working in the areas of fine arts, performance, media and technologies
founded in Salzburg, Austria in 1998. The core idea of their work is to let the idea decide over the medium:
gold extra is interested in an intense and playful social research via the media of the arts and challenging
the confines of art as an institution to redefine it constantly as a matter of communication. From robots
playing Hamlet to video games. We often create ephemeral artworks that would temporarily enable the
spectator – often giving the audience an active role – to touch upon a known social matter from a surprising
angle. Their collaborative work has been awarded with grants for innovative work by the cities of Salzburg
and Linz (Austria), as well as the Federal State of Austria, several members were awarded with prizes and
grants in the field of literature, media arts, stage design, video and film.
http://www.goldextra.com/
ABOUT PROGRAMME SUAL AWARD PRESS IMPRESSUM SUAL HOME