This year’s A MAZE. / Berlin features Enchanted Controllers - a special exhibition on the practice of creating alternative controllers - or alt.ctrl.

The controller as an input device is our tool to interact with the game world. It shapes our idea of what a game is and what it means to play. A MAZE. / Berlin 2024 invites 7 international artists and artist groups to present their reimaginings of playing a computer game: from skateboarding through anaglyph cyberspace to shooting a candle light in the dark to following multi-dimensional beings into an infinity mirror - get immersed in the world of Enchanted Controllers. Curated by Paul Schmidt.

works

• Between
  Claire Kwong
  

• Crashboard
  Emilie Breslavetz & Léon Denise
  

• Hyper Wobbler
  Robin Baumgarten & Philipp Helldorfer
  

• Labyrinth
  Emma Wood & Julia Makivic
  

• Lest Ten Horizons Cry
  Mouse & the Billionaire / Whaaat!? Lab
  

• Non-virtual Reality Games
  3m Jump
  

• Waxwing
  Common Opera
  

Connected Events:

• Making Enchanted Controllers
• Playing with touch and intimacy
• Labyrinth - Entangling Worlds
• The Making of a Collaborative Alternative Controller