Games Art International Assembly 2025
Barcelona, Spain
2025


Talk: Thoughtful Human Curation Against Algoirthmic Fuelled Monopolistic Platforms

The Game Arts International Assembly (GAIA) is an international think tank and network for the professional development of the game arts community: aimed at curators, producers, event organizers and academics working in the field of videogame culture.

GAIA addresses topics such as: curation, art and videogames, activism, communication, language, communities, minorities, funding, networks, archiving and many more.

GAIA 2025 took place in Barcelona, Spain. It included 30 speakers from 19 countries and 14 sessions over 3 days + field trips. I gave an in-person talk about thoughtful games curation, introducing the early developments of my curation platform Exhibit:Play.

Click the image to view the full 35 page GAIA 2025 report

A page from the report summarizing three talks under the theme of "Browser Shows"

Group discussion and tour of Fundació Foto Colectania with curator Jon Uriarte

Me giving my talk

One of the group workshops

Group photo of all GAIA 2025 participants