This text explores the politics of ‘precarious’ artistic interactions, the role of intentional bewilderment within gaming paradigms. To what end does one develop an intention to flummox? Within gaming and interaction design where do we place ourselves on the spectrum between complexity and clarity? How can this new paradigm assist the participant in achieving agency?

For UPLAY is a themed day constituting of lectures /workshop and an academic panel for artists and researchers ‘involved in the development of Ludic strategies and interfaces for forms of social/participatory/political (inter-) action in urban space’. Prof. Margarete Jahrmann (Zurich University of the Arts)