ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie

»Global Games« reacts to the latest developments in the computer game field, a medium that was created by the Infosphere. The effects of globalisation and real-world references are reflected clearly in computer games. Games address, for example, the contexts of the globalised financial market, the situation of refugees on European borders or social grievances provoked through turbo-capitalism. A new phenomenon is Citizen Science, in which the citizen, etc. takes part in scientific research in computer games.

Computer games should in no way be understood as a purely western phenomenon, but far more as a global medium. It’s worth taking a look at the flourishing computer game culture in Asia and on computer game productions from countries such as Iran and Syria.