In the organizer's words:

w/ BRUTALISM Cologne

Our current exhibition as part of the NEXT LEVEL Festival at the Künstler*innenhaus can be seen this week only: Thu - Sun, open 4 - 7 pm.

Don't miss it: We will celebrate the finissage of the exhibition on Saturday, January 17, at 7 pm with a concert by BRUTALISM from Cologne. Come along and raise a glass with us!

About the exhibition
The NEXT LEVEL Festival in Dortmund is a place for everyone who wants to experience games and digital arts from a new perspective. It's about how games become creative expression, get ideas rolling and open up conversations about our digital present. International artists meet regional positions and local initiatives, visitors become explorers themselves.

Instead of providing ready-made answers, the festival invites visitors to ask questions, change perspectives and bring digital culture to life together. For a few weeks, the Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund will be transformed into a meeting place for anyone who wants to be inspired by the energy of playfulness.

TRANSmission is the festival theme of NEXT LEVEL in Dortmund. It draws attention to the transitions that make digital games visible and tangible. Transmission means translation, passing on, transformation, all processes that characterize our digital present. The festival asks how games as a medium reflect and reinterpret these processes: as an interface between body and avatar, as a bridge between cultures or as a driver of technological innovation.

Artistic works, installations and discussion formats take up the theme and open up approaches to the pressing questions of our time. How are perception, communication and community changing in the digital space? What new possibilities arise when we understand playfulness as a tool for exchange? With TRANSmission, the festival provides a framework in which digital games become tangible as a cultural practice that not only describes transitions, but also shapes them.