Category: The Endless Forest

Exhibition: Night Garden, Mediamatic, Amsterdam

The Endless Forest will be featured in the Night Garden, an exhibition in the form of a sub-technical indoor garden, links new technology, next nature, contemporary art and its consumption.

Night Garden will be at Mediamatic in Amsterdam from 3 November 2006 to 7 January 2007.

Other participating artists include Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Felix Hess, Mateuz Herczka, Ralf Schreiber & Christian Faubel, Debra Solomon and Petra Blaisse.

We’ll be attending the opening so soon as we have images from the show we’ll post them in the forum.

Also, the next day, at the occasion of Museumnacht in Amsterdam, we’ll be performing about 4 hours of ABIOGENESIS in the Forest on Saturday 4 November between 7.30 and 11.30 in the evening. Don’t expect as intense a performance as usual, but more of an ongoing stream of little fun things happening once in a while.

Exhibition: Mediaterra, Athens

The Endless Forest was featured as an installation at Mediaterra a festival of Art and Technology, October 4-8th, in Athens, Greece. This year their focus was on alternative games.







During the festival we also had the opportunity to present our Realtime Art Manifesto, a provocative set of guidelines for artists and game designers. Much of our philosophy on how we use the Realtime 3d medium has been developed during the making of The Endless Forest. We are pleased to be able to discuss these ideas publicly.

Exhibition: Pixel Me, Belgium

Welcome some new players into the forest… the Fawns are here! For this traveling art exhibition for young teenagers we have created fawn avatars to represent the players at the physical locations where The Endless Forest will be played on special gaming consoles. Pixel Me features The Endless Forest next to works by Wim Delvoye, Pina Bausch and Chantal Akerman, Guy Rombouts, etc.

If you are in Belgium the show runs from October 2006 to November 2008 and it will be stopping in cultural centers across the country. Check the wonderful Pixel Me website for details!

If you want to see the new additions to the game for yourself you’ll need to download and install the latest beta of The Endless Forest version 2.1.

Exhibition: Game/Play, UK

We are presenting a special hour long ABIOGENESIS performance on Thursday July 27th 7.00pm ñ 8.00 pm (UK time, click here for the time in your area) for the exhibition Game/Play presented online, at the HTTP Gallery in London, and Q-Arts in Derby.

more information: http://www.game-play.org.uk
Playful interaction and goal-oriented gaming explored through media arts practice.

The exhibition opens at two different venues, in the UK and then joins, to tour as a single touring show. Game/Play is a networked national touring exhibition in the UK, focusing on the rhetorical constructs game and play.

Game/Play Artists:
Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern, Jetro Lauha, Julian Oliver, Kenta Cho, Mary Flanagan, Low Brow Trash, Paul Granjon, Simon Poulter, Giles Askham, Jakub Dvorsky, Long Journey Home, PRU, Q Club, Furtherfield, Tale of Tales.

The Endless Forest, Version 2.0

We are proud to announce the release of version 2.0 of The Endless Forest today! This is a very exciting release which includes the ability to change the look of the deer avatars using Forest Magic, the first wave of new expressive actions, a lovely forest hang-out in the form of a hollow Old Oak Tree, further development of our ABIOGENESIS system, and more surprises! All this, and of course numerous bug fixes and overall improvements, make this a must have release. We truly look forward to seeing you in The Forest!


Download The Endless Forest 2.0










New Beta of the Screensaver client

For those of you who have not been daring enough to try the experimentalstreaming beta client (which has been updated almost nightly with new additions) We have compiled an updated beta of the Screensaver version of The Endless Forest.

This new version contains The Pond area and everything you need to witness the ABIOGENESIS performances in their full glory.

So, if you are interested in these new features download version 1.5 beta 12 of The Endless Forest Screensaver.

I am sure we will meet some of you in Leuven. And as usual, see you in The Forest!