York Mediale: Play the Future

Digital Creativity Labs, IGGI and students from the Interactive Media BSc in the Department of Theatre, Film and TV at the University of York bring their latest inventions, experiments and creative works to Continue. Interact with virtual jellyfish who will teach you about the challenges of waste plastic, hone your French Grammar skills to retain your cover as a secret agent, view the University campus through the eyes of water pistol wielding Geese in game ‘Capture the Campus’ and put your storytelling to the test in Ben Tailby’s ‘Online Consequences’. The leading researchers in games and interactive media share their completed projects and works-in-progress to inspire you to explore innovation at the intersection of application of games, storytelling, eSports, broadcast and the rich space where they converge.

We are excited to be running alongside Continue: Videgames and Culture - an annual conference with fantastic speakers designed to bring together arts organisations and videogame developers. Peter Cowling and Marian Ursu will be talking as an entertaining double act as part of the Continue on "The AI Challange: Is Creativity The Last Bastion of Humanity?" - definitely not to be missed!

Our demonstrations are free and open to the public, so please come along and experience VR, play some games and find out about the future of digital creativity!