Resistència Videolúdica + Jugar jueguitos

Resistència Videolúdica and Jugar jueguitos are collectives interested in creating spaces for reflection, critique and connection around video games with an artistic, interdisciplinary and anti-capitalist perspective.

Their collaboration and lines of research are framed in the analysis of the neoliberal political load of the mechanical systems of games and the study of video games created in times of social, economic and ecological crisis. They also explore the artistic potential of games as a means of expression and their interrelation with other disciplines.

They investigate these questions with the intention of creating bridges between artistic media and understanding common cultural spaces as key elements in the dissemination, creation and access to video game knowledge outside the classical and hegemonic structures close to the video game cultural industry.

Members:
Laia Velasco Flo
Víctor Rubio i Maturana
Roque Piñeiro Vieira
Violeta Moldes Rivas

Laia Velasco Flo is an artist and member of the Resistència Videolúdica collective. She has developed the creation project una dècada de somni profund (2024) at the Sala d'Art Jove with Abril Carretero Balcells, has been a resident at FemArt's Emergències V and has participated in the exhibition Conspiracions isòpteres (2024) at Ca la Dona. She has also participated in the working group Espacios intermedios of the Sâlmon Festival (2022), in the Drap-Art festival, in the Ullal Festival and in the Stripart Festival with the work Casa hostil (2021-2023), about hostile architecture in the city of Barcelona.

Víctor Rubio y Maturana is studying for a master's degree in Digital Culture and Emerging Media at Pompeu Fabra University and is a member of the Resistència Videolúdica collective. She co-organised the session Resistència Videolúdica: Cicle de xerrades sobre videojocs i anticapitalisme at the Santa Mònica and Voces de Resistencia: Perspectiva anticapitalista desde la creación de videojuegos in the Indie Dev Day.

Roque Piñeiro Vieira (Roquekes) is an artist and drone pilot specialising in ceramics and graphic and industrial design. His work includes installation, interventions in public space and editorial work with participation in self-publishing festivals such as Creativa, Autobán, FunFunFun, among others. In 2021 he was resident at EAN (Encontro de artistas novos). Also, in 2022, he directed the virtual reality section of the film and contemporary art festival Intersección and participated as part of the Mariola collective in the MMMAD festival. He has recently combined her artistic practice with cultural management through JugarJueguitos, a project that organises workshops, talks and exhibitions, including the exhibitions JugarJueguitos and Otra forma (2024).¡

Violeta Moldes-Rivas (collaborator) is a pre-doctoral researcher in the MEDIUM group of the Department of Communication at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a member of the Resistència Videolúdica collective. She is doing her doctoral research on Western coming-of-age narratives in indie videogames. She is also a 2D artist and narrative designer, and has worked on two titles that have already been published (Stories of Mara and Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara) with Chibig and another with Talpa Games and Undercoders. She has collaborated with universities such as ENTI and the Universidade da Coruña giving talks on narrative in art and videogames. She has also participated in other events such as the WEIRD Market or the Indie Dev Day, in the round table on videogame creation and anti-capitalist perspectives.