A MAZE. / Berlin 2026

How do we navigate the ever-present challenge of working (and playing) with a digital and therefore inherently ephemeral medium on the one hand, while still needing to find community and create places that feel permanent on the other? 
The art-game community is often dispersed and fragmented; living and working on different continents, systems, platforms, and technologies, finding each other in online-spaces or temporary events like festivals and jams. At the same time, there always seems to be a longing for local networks and spaces to call home. 
This panel brings together digital artists, organizers and curators who relate to these questions of time and space in their own way: they build hybrid communities spanning from Tokyo to London, organize festivals, create online-spaces to make each other visible, buy entire buildings to call home and drag the digital out into the sun (or vice-versa).