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Money Tag in Berlin April 25 - May 17

Money Tag will part of Manual CC a show of art games at Uqbar in Berlin, April 25 – May 17

Money Tag

Players: As many as you like.

Materials: For each player, money (a bank note), a piece of paper, and a paper clip. Pens and pencils.

Setup: Decide how long the game will last (10 minutes? 3 months?). each player writes their name on a sheet of paper and clips it to their bank note.

Play: Find someone to give the money to. Have them write their name on the paper and agree to pass it to someone else.

Winning: The player who gets the money back with the most names wins. If you don’t get the money back, you lose. Make the game harder by increasing the amounts of money and the length of the game.

(The Money Tag Game, like all the contributions to Manual CC, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 and I hereby dual license it under the CC BY-SA license as well)

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Manual CC – Instructions for Beginners and Advanced Players
Presentation of the Results of the Open Call

Opening April 25, 2008, 6 p.m.
Duration April 25 – May 17, 2008

Manual CC is a set of game manual-scenarios, composed of “instructions for beginners and advanced users”, that have been submitted by artists on special cards, all of which are of the same size. During the exhibition, the cards are placed together with copies of the original instructions, which can be picked up and collected by visitors. Following the manual instructions, the visitors can, inside or outside the gallery, recreate the artists’ projects, which are single player or group games.

On April 25, from 6 p.m. on the opening at uqbar gives the opportunity of playing together with others. Extra games by Wilhelm Sasnal and Barbara Stock will be on display.

The number of participants, both artists and “users”, is constantly growing. So far, over seventy artists were involved. A selection, curated by Marianna Dobkowska, has been on show at uqbar from April 3-18, 2008. More than 35 artists took part in the open call, further contributions are possible till the closing of the exhibtion on May 17.

The Creative Commons license (Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5) allows for reassembly of the works after the end of the exhibition – in any place, time or configuration and without the authors’ knowledge. The format of the project is constantly changing and it is continually drifting towards unexplored areas by utilizing various media. For example, as magazine inserts, a table with cards in the gallery hall, a set of postcards, or e-mail attachments. The exhibition is not composed of tangible artworks, rather, it is an evolving set of instructions which can be used in many different ways. The playability, as traditionally understood, of many game manuals might be questioned. They are mostly conceptual projects, focused on the mere act of initializing a game – with/against oneself, other visitors, passers-by etc., mostly with an open ending and uncertain results. The assumption is that the works can be assembled with minimal or no financial resources.