Gameplayarts: Helping Cultural Institutions Break Into Games

Jamin Warren

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

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Gameplayarts: Helping Cultural Institutions Break Into Games

Episodes (8)

Feb 28th How the V&A Built a Games Program From the Inside Out
Feb 10th Theo Triantafyllidis on the Technical Realities of Exhibiting Game-Based Art
Jul 9, 2025 Fandom as Ocean: Building Authentic Communities for Art-Forward Games (w/ Bria Davis)

Gameplayarts: Helping Cultural Institutions Break Into Games

Feb 28, 2026
46¼ minutes
42 MB

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. 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. In this conversation, we go d...

Gameplayarts: Helping Cultural Institutions Break Into Games

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

Jamin Warren

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