About
Tobias Zarges
Designer developing Audio-Visual Communication and Interactive Experiences.
Design & Communication
Ranging from Identity, Editorial and Packaging to Motion, Spatial and Sound Design.
Interactivity & Experiences
Creating meaningful and engaging Interactive Experiences, Interfaces and Storytelling, Agentic Behaviors and Simulations.
Education & Teaching
I hold a M.A. in Visual Communication spezializing in Graphic Design, New Media and Animation and taught Multimedia Design and Interaction Design at the University of Kassel/Kunsthochschule Kassel, together with Professor Auriea Harvey as well as international institutions such as Goethe Zentrum.
Recognitions
My work was a finalist for the Nuovo Award at the IGF in San Francisco for creative, boundary-pushing, and unconventional interaction design. My interactive and other audio-visual works have been shown in numerous international exhibitions such as documenta fifteen and the Hammer Museum Los Angeles.
Exhibitions / Events / Awards / Text / Teaching / Talks (selection)
| Exhibition | Zwischen Gestalten, Grimmwelt, Kassel |
| Talk | Overlapping Worlds and Ambiguous Play, TH Augsburg |
| Seminar | Interactive Narratives, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| Text | Empowerment through the mutual expansion of agency in participatory, transdisciplinary, and transformative spaces for research and design, Beltz Verlag, w/ Prof. Lang, Terschi, Paehr, Meiners |
| Workshop | Melting Interfaces, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| Text | Transformative, transdisciplinary and co-productive social work in virtual-digital spaces, Waxmann Verlag w/ Prof. Lang, Terschi, Paehr, Meiners |
| Seminar | Overwhelming realities – conversation, research and project on right-wing extremism as media practice, Kunsthochschule Kassel, /w Dr. Strick, Prof. Dr. Schaffer, Prof. Baumann |
| Exhibition | documenta fifteen, Fridericianum, Kassel |
| Workshop | Past, Present, Future, Kunsthochschule Kassel /w Prof. Auriea Harvey |
| Text | Death and economics are the two things that games are basically always about, right?, Journal of Media Studies, w/ Auriea Harvey |
| Workshop | The Prototype, /w Prof. Auriea Harvey, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| Exhibition | Afterlife, Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Kassel |
| Event | Swimming Jewels, Le Monde Diplomatique, w/Auunan & Sheree Domingo, Berlin |
| Exhibition | Exploration, Atlanta |
| Exhibition | Clujotronic, Goethe-Zentrum, Cluj |
| Workshop | Narrative Play, Goethe-Zentrum, Cluj |
| Seminar | Environmental Play, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| Seminar | Collaborative Worldbuilding and Storytelling, Kunsthochschule Kassel |
| Talk | Unreliable Play: Power, Fleetingness and Metafiction, Universität Kassel |
| Exhibition | Leftfield Collection, Burningham |
| Exhibition | Game On, Buenos Aires |
| Award | Most Innovative Finalist, Play, Hamburg |
| Talk | Hidden Systems, Genua |
| Exhibition | Reversed Festival, Wien |
| Award | CDW Stiftung Förderpreis, Kassel |
| Event | CTM Festival, w/Grebenstein, Berlin |
| Exhibition | UCLA Game Art Festival, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles |
| Award | IGF Nuovo Award Finalist, San Francisco |