Crossing Over - a text by André Leipold

Talk by Karl Zechenter at the Game Conference Ludicious, Zurich: "Interactive Experiences. Crossing Boundaries For Serious Reasons"

On thursday, we will publicly present From Darkness for the first time at ZKM in Karlsruhe.
From 12th of january, the Interactive documentary will also become part of the exhibition "Gameplay".

The Indie Game Website Warp Door has added "From Darkness" to its list of favorite games of 2016! We're of course very happy and you can find the list, edited by Gnome, here.

Reinhold's experimental Animation “Ex Terrat“ is going to be shown today at the international Animation Festival Animateka in Ljubljana.

For her PhD on Frontiers Sonja Prlic is awarded with the Award of Excellence by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy.

Reinhold Bidner and Sonja Prlic will present gold extra's art works dealing with migration and escape and talk about the connection of political topics and digital media.

Georg Hobmeier is holding a talk at AdventureX, London, a gaming conference focusing on narrative gaming.

On November 15 2016 gold extra takes part in the Creative Gaming Festival "Play" in Hamburg and can be seen at two different program points:

The experimental Animation "Ex Terrat" by Reinhold Bidner wins at Budapest Short Film Festival 2016: "Best Experimental".

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"Ex Terrat" - Festival List:

Tobias Hammerle created the Videos for the debut performance "Voices of Spring" At the Beethovenfestival.

Reinhold was invited to Ars Electronica Festival´s Expanded Animation Symposium. He talked about artistic Diversity in the field of Animation. Amongst other Projects he also presented "From Darkness" .

In August, on the streetcorner Rainerstraße - Franz Josef Straße in Salzburg, Reinhold´s Work that was chosen in the context of the "Art Advertising Pillar"-Call can be watched and read.

The current Version of "From Darkness" and also our Game "Sole City" were presented at Radius Festival Vienna on July 23rd.

In this open studio dedicated to writing (visual) artists Doris Prlić and Sonja Prlić will present their web journal: We write, right?

Our Game "Sole City" was presented at the Austrian Games Night 2016 at Museumsquartier Vienna / Electric Avenue.

Sonja Prlić gives a talk concerning artistic experiences in documentary computer games based upon experiences from own works such as From Darnes and Frontiers.

The documentery game SOLE CITY puts yourself in the position of the daily life of a steet trader, who tries to sell shoes in the streets of Tanzania's Capital Daressalaam.
For gold extra´s first Open Studio in 2016 Reinhold Bidner will present some Experiments, that were created last year during his Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
Confidential documents by the EU Commission, burglaries in India, pplication letters by opera singers from Dubai - how did all of this material reach us? How is it connected? Is it at all connected?
Our computer game is presented at the exhibition "Grenzparcours // Walk the line!" at Mousonturm.
The forum "Art-Activism in Migration Contexts" discussed the relations of art and activism in art projects focusing on the topic of migration.