Gameplayarts: Helping Artists and Institutions Break Into Games

From writing for the Wall Street Journal to advising MoMA’s permanent collection to launching one of the first game-based arts spaces in the world, Jamin Warren talks through contemporary issues in bringing games to the arts-world public

Gameplayarts: Helping Artists and Institutions Break Into Games is a arts podcast hosted by Jamin Warren, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jamin Warren hosts Gameplayarts: Helping Artists and Institutions Break Into Games, a arts show with 11 episodes published.

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  Episode #10

  How SFMOMA Built a 15-Year Game-Based Arts Program From the Inside Out

  May 13, 202648 minS0

  <p>Erika Gangsei has run the interpretive media team at SFMOMA for nearly two decades, and for 15 of those years she's been quietly building one of the most coherent game-based programming initiatives inside any major cultural institution in the country.</p><p>In this conversation, we get into the origins of Play SFMOMA, which launched in 2011, before games as an art form had any real institutional legitimacy, and what it actually took to sustain a program built on deliberate experimentation rather than proven outcomes. Erika talks about the decision to treat game designers the way SFMOMA treats sound artists and...

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  Episode #9

  How Tribeca Made Space For Games

  Apr 29, 202633 minS0

  <p>Casey Baltes led the effort to build the Tribeca Games Festival from the ground up—and she'll tell you the hardest part wasn't the games. It was building internal credibility. In this episode, we talk about curation, community, and why institutions that try to do everything in games end up doing nothing well.</p><p><br>For more insights, signup for my newsletter.</p><p>Jamin Warren founded Gameplayarts, an advisory that helps museums and cultural organizations engage with the world of gaming. He provides them with the research, strategy, and execution they need to reach gamers for the fi...

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  Episode #8

  What Tribeca Games Built—And What Most Institutions Still Miss

  Apr 22, 202633 minS0

  <p>Casey Baltes, VP of Games at Tribeca Enterprises, breaks down why most institutional game-based programs stall — and the structural decisions that have made Tribeca Games one of the few that hasn't. We get into executive buy-in, curatorial focus, the case for interpretive content over exhibitions, and why financial sustainability is the conversation no one in the cultural sector wants to have.</p><p>For more insights, signup for my newsletter.</p><p>Jamin Warren founded Gameplayarts, an advisory that helps museums and cultural organizations engage with the world of gaming. He provides them with the research, strategy, and execution th...

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  Episode #7

  How the V&A Built a Games Program From the Inside Out

  Feb 27, 202646 minS0

  <p>Most cultural institutions know games matter. Very few know what to do about it. Kristian Volsing is one of the people who figured it out — and built the path in real time.</p><p>As part of the V&A's contemporary design team, Kristian co-curated Design/Play/Disrupt, one of the most significant museum exhibitions ever dedicated to game design. He navigated studio NDAs, convinced the National Gallery of Art to lend a Magritte for a game show, and flew a colleague to Kyoto — where Nintendo showed her exactly one meeting room.</p><p><br>In this conversation, we go d...

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  Episode #6

  Theo Triantafyllidis on the Technical Realities of Exhibiting Game-Based Art

  Feb 9, 202636 minS0

  <p>Hey there -- if you subscribed to the Twofivesix podcast, we've made some changes to our focus. I'm working with museums, collections, galleries, and cultural orgs on the same big problems I used to help corporate clients with. Hope you enjoy!<br> <br>What does it actually take to exhibit game-based art in a museum? Beyond the romantic notion of "games as art" lies a complex reality of technical requirements, development timelines, and institutional infrastructure that most cultural organizations simply aren't prepared for.</p><p>Today, I'm speaking with Theo Triantafyllidis, an artist who builds what he calls "performative s...

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