Homo Ludens

»LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial presents HOMO LUDENS
LUDENS, an international exhibition and conference examining play as a
principal element of today’ s world, and highlighting its necessity for our
contemporary societies. Following the exhibitions GAMEWORLD and
PLAYWARE, that reflected respectively on the different playful and social sides
of gaming creativity and interactive art, HOMO LUDENS LUDENS now sets the
setting that embraces these data and looks into the notion of play in a wider
spectrum, presenting how it has evolved in our digital times.
Projects of a different character and orientation reflect play’s various
expressions and roles: Play is being reformed and reversed; it embodies social
and political acts and issues; it becomes a tool for activism; it mingles the
virtual and the real; it revitalizes other disciplines; play can be misused and
exploited; while stereotypes are challenged, questions are raised and different
understandings are offered.« (http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/exhibitions/
show/64)