About

Tobias Zarges is a designer working across audio-visual communication and interactive experiences.

His work includes:
> Corporate identities and design systems
> Publications and editorial design
> Packaging 
> Websites and digital media, UX and UI
> Participatory design and participative formats
> Type design and custom lettering
> Sound design and soundtracks
> Exhibitions and spatial design

He studied Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Kassel and later returned as artistic associate to co-establish a department focusing on interactive experiences and emerging technologies, together with Prof. Auriea Harvey.

He was a Nuovo Award Finalist at the IGF in San Francisco. His works have been shown in numerous international exhibitions. 

Exhibitions / Events / Awards (selection)

2022ExhibitionGood Game Well Played at Gudskul, Fridericianum, Documenta Fifteen
2021ExhibitionAfterlife, Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Kassel
2018EventSwimming Jewels, Le Monde Diplomatique, w/Auunan & Sheree Domingo, Berlin
2018ExhibitionExperimental Videogame Showcase, Atlanta
2018ExhibitionGoethe-Zentrum, Cluj
2018ExhibitionLeftfield Collection, Burningham
2017ResidencyOn Improvisation, Super Tokonoma, w/Auunan, Kassel
2017ExhibitionGame On, Buenos Aires
2017AwardMost Innovative Newcomer Game Finalist,Play 17, Hamburg
2017EventKitokia Grafika, w/Auunan & Sheree Domingo, Kaunas
2017EventFloatation Device at documenta 14, w/Auunan, Kassel
2017ExhibitionGame Happens, Genua
2017ExhibitionReversed Festival, Wien
2017ExhibitionIGF Pavillion, San Francisco
2017AwardIGF Nuovo Award Finalist, San Francisco
2016AwardCDW Stiftung Förderpreis, Kassel
2015EventCTM Festival, w/Grebenstein, Berlin
2012ExhibitionUcla Game Art Festival, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2011ExhibitionDokfest, Kassel

Teaching / Text (selection)

2026LectureOverlapping Worlds and Ambiguous Play, TH Augsburg
2025

TextEmpowerment through the mutual expansion of agency in participatory, transdisciplinary, and transformative spaces for research and design, w/ Prof. Susanne Lang, Michelle Terschi, Iz Paehr, Jasper Meiners, in Partizipative Forschung und Empowerment, Beltz Verlag
2025TextTransformative, transdisciplinary and co-productive social work in virtual-digital spaces, Anthology „GesellschaftBilden im Digitalzeitalter“/ „Society Education in the Digital Age“, w/ Prof. Susanne Lang, Michelle Terschi, Iz Paehr, Jasper Meiners
2025TextBody-oriented vireal-digital media behavior of adults with childhood-related experiences of sexualized violence, Merz, Journal for Media Education, w/ Prof. Susanne Lang, Michelle Terschi, Iz Paehr, Jasper Meiners
2025Seminar Escapist Experience, Kunsthochschule Kassel
2024SeminarGentle Gardening Quest, Kunsthochschule Kassel
2024SeminarOverwhelming realities – conversation, research and project on right-wing extremism as media practice, Kunsthochschule Kassel, /w Dr. Strick, Prof. Dr. Schaffer, Prof. Baumann
2024SeminarPast, Present, Future, Kunsthochschule Kassel /w Prof. Auriea Harvey
2023WorkshopMelting Interfaces, Kunsthochschule Kassel
2023SeminarInteractive Narratives, Kunsthochschule Kassel
2023TeachingThe Prototype, /w Prof. Auriea Harvey, Kunsthochschule Kassel 
2022TeachingEnvironmental Play, Kunsthochschule Kassel
2021TextDeath and economics are the two things that games are basically always about, right? , Journal of Media Studies, w/ Auriea Harvey
2021TeachingCollaborative Worldbuilding and Storytelling, Kunsthochschule Kassel
2021TalkUnreliable Play: Power, Fleetingness and Metafiction, Universität Kassel
2021TeachingGame – Desire – System, /w Johanna Schaffer, Kunsthochschule Kassel
2020TeachingInstructions and Possibilities, Kunsthochschule Kassel
2018WorkshopNarrative Play, Goethe-Zentrum, Cluj
2017TalkHidden Systems, Genua
2014TalkHörverstehen, SuperTokonoma, Kassel