About
Tobias Zarges is a designer working with visuals, sound, storytelling and interactivity.
His work includes visual identities, books, packaging and exhibition designs, music videos and live visuals, playful and immersive experiences.
He studied Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Kassel and later taught there to establish and lead a department focusing on immersive experiences and interactive storytelling.
He was a Nuovo Award Finalist at the IGF in San Francisco. His works have been shown in numerous international exhibitions.
Exhibitions / Events / Awards / Text
| 2024 | Text | Transformative, transdisciplinary and co-productive social work in virtual-digital spaces in virtual-digital spaces, Anthology „GesellschaftBilden im Digitalzeitalter“/ „Society Education in the Digital Age“, w/ Susanne Lang, Michelle Terschi, Iz Paehr, Jasper Meiners |
| 2024 | Text | Body-oriented vireal-digital media behavior of adults with childhood-related experiences of sexualized violence childhood-related experiences of sexualized violence, Merz, Journal for Media Education, w/ Susanne Lang, Michelle Terschi, Iz Paehr, Jasper Meiners |
| 2022 | Exhibition | Good Game Well Played at Gudskul, Fridericianum, Documenta Fifteen |
| 2021 | Event | Noiseberg, w/Auunan, Berlin |
| 2021 | Exhibition | Afterlife, Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Kassel |
| 2021 | Text | Death and economics are the two things that games are basically always about, right? , Journal of Media Studies, w/ Auriea Harvey |
| 2018 | Event | Swimming Jewels, Le Monde Diplomatique, w/Auunan & Sheree Domingo, Berlin |
| 2018 | Exhibition | Examen, Kassel |
| 2018 | Exhibition | Experimental Videogame Showcase, Atlanta |
| 2018 | Exhibition | Goethe-Zentrum, Cluj |
| 2018 | Exhibition | Leftfield Collection, Burningham |
| 2018 | Event | Psychedelic Laboratory at Desu:d, w/Auunan & Fratar, Kassel |
| 2017 | Exhibition | Super Tokonoma, w/Auunan, Kassel |
| 2017 | Exhibition | Monitoring/Dok-Fest, Kassel |
| 2017 | Exhibition | Game On, Buenos Aires |
| 2017 | Award | Most Innovative Newcomer Game Finalist,Play 17, Hamburg |
| 2017 | Exhibition | Play 17, Hamburg |
| 2017 | Event | Kitokia Grafika, w/Auunan & Sheree Domingo, Kaunas |
| 2017 | Event | Floatation Device, w/Auunan, Kassel |
| 2017 | Exhibition | Game Happens, Genua |
| 2017 | Exhibition | Reversed Festival, Wien |
| 2017 | Exhibition | ITFS, Stuttgart |
| 2017 | Exhibition | IGF Pavillion, San Francisco |
| 2017 | Award | IGF Nuovo Award Finalist, San Francisco |
| 2016 | Award | CDW Stiftung Förderpreis, Kassel |
| 2016 | Exhibition | Show Me The Money, Examen, Kassel |
| 2016 | Event | Strong Proud Stupid And Superior Release Shows, w/Auunan, Kassel |
| 2016 | Event | Mora, w/Tises, Berlin |
| 2015 | Event | Für die musikalische Untermalung sorgen, w/Tises & Quib!, Kassel |
| 2015 | Event | CTM Festival, w/Grebenstein, Berlin |
| 2014 | Event | Koralle Release Show, SuperTokonoma, w/Tises & Quib!, Kassel |
| 2013 | Exhibition | Spielsalon, Fridericianum, Kassel, GER |
| 2012 | Exhibition | Ucla Game Art Festival, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles |
| 2011 | Exhibition | Dokfest, Kassel |
Lectures / Workshops / Teaching
| 2025 | Seminar | Escapist Experience, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2024 | Seminar | Gentle Gardening Quest, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2024 | Seminar | Ecstatic & Erratic Engine/???, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2024 | Seminar | Overwhelming realities – conversation, research and project on right-wing extremism as media practice, right-wing extremism as media practice, Kunsthochschule Kassel, /w Dr. Strick, Prof. Dr. Schaffer, Prof. Baumann |
| 2024 | Seminar | Past, Present, Future of Games, Kunsthochschule Kassel /w Prof. Auriea Harvey |
| 2023 | Workshop | Melting Interfaces, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2023 | Seminar | Interactive Narratives, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2023 | Teaching | Random Encounter, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2023 | Teaching | The Prototype, /w Prof. Auriea Harvey, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2022 | Teaching | Environmental Play, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2021 | Teaching | Competitive Wellness, Collaborative Worldbuilding and Wholesome Storytelling, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2021 | Talk | Unreliable Play: Power, Fleetingness and Metafiction, Universität Kassel |
| 2021 | Teaching | Game – Desire – System, /w Johanna Schaffer, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2020 | Teaching | Instructions and Possibilities, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2019 | Teaching | Narratives, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| 2018 | Workshop | Narrative Play, Goethe-Zentrum, Cluj |
| 2017 | Talk | About the Essence of Games, SuperTokonoma, Kassel |
| 2017 | Talk | Hidden Systems, Genua |
| 2017 | Talk | Panel About Games Education, Play 17, Hamburg |
| 2014 | Talk | Hörverstehen, SuperTokonoma, Kassel |
| 2012 | Teaching | Department of Author Games, Kunsthochschule Kassel |