C4 Art Games
The Conference for Art Games is a celebration of the weird and wonderful possibility at the intersection of art and games!
Conference
Date: September 19
Location: Bus Stop Theatre
Exhibition
Date: September 18 - October 9
Location: CFAT Gallery (where ever that is at the time)
Opening Party
Date: September 19
Location: CFAT Gallery
About C4 Art Games
This event is a space to showcase and support the growing games and interactive art community in Atlantic Canada. C4 looks at how games can be used as an expressive art medium and critical cultural objects. Hosted by the Centre for Arts Tapes, an inclusive artist-run centre that supports artists who use video, audio, and electronic media to express ideas and stories that are under-represented in mainstream culture.
Schedule
To be announced July 2026
Tickets
Regular Ticket: $50
CFAT Members: Free
Low income/Underemployed: $25
Opening Party: Free*
Exhibition: Free*
*Donations for CFAT building initiative will be collected at the door
Call for Submissions
C4 builds off CFAT’s mission to put marginalized artists into the centre of discourses and practices of media art and as such, encourages artists and game makers from backgrounds not typically represented in mainstream games culture. We hope to support submissions which might not be valued in more traditional game conferences or art exhibitions.
We encourage those interested in submitting to both the conference and exhibition.
Conference
Call Open: May 8 - June 1
C4 welcomes talk submissions from both game makers and interactive artists from Atlantic Canada and beyond.
We are looking for panel ideas as well as 15-30 minute talk submissions. Topics can be expansive and we hope to include as much of them as we can:
- Thoughts on the unique expressive possibility of games
- Critical play
- Game Engine effects on art game development
- Climate aware game development
- Game co-operative and collective action
- Political engagement in games
- Games as exploration of social rules
- A weird and highly specific thought that guide your art game practice
- … And whatever else you think would be cool to see at the conference
To submit a talk or panel to C4, please fill out the Submission Form below by June 1, 2026
Submission Form
Name
Pronouns
Bio (max 250 words)
A brief description of your proposed talk and or panel (max 500 words)
If a panel, names of panelists
Link so we can see your work
Exhibition
We hope to showcase a wide range of what a game can be. We are happy to show both digital or analogue games as well as art that looks at games/gaming and its cultural impact.
To submit a game (analogue or digital), VR/AR experience, or any other art work to C4, please fill out the Submission Form below by June 15, 2026.
Submission Form
Name
Pronouns
Bio (max 250 words)
A brief description of your game (max 500 words)
Names of the people involved in the project
Links to work of the people involved
Link to a build we can play and/or documentation of the work
Zine Library
Name
Pronouns
Bio (max 250 words)
Names of the people involved in the project
Link to zine description/documentation
Sponsorship & Community Partners
We are looking for community partnerships and sponsors to support C4 Art Games as well as CFAT’s ongoing games programming including education, production and exhibition of games and other interactive media works.
If you are interested in supporting our efforts or think that your work would be, please contact us for our sponsorship information:
Cat Bluemke
[email]
[phone]
Media Outreach
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