Collective restitution
Hack the Game / Playing the Break
Art, Video Games, and Resistance
Installations
Opening in Aix-en-Provence
Friday, October 30, and Saturday, October 31, 2026
from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Amphithéâtre de La Manufacture
Aix-en-Provence
Credits
Organized by the Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan; MEDIALAB INBA; the École Supérieure
d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence; the Locus Sonus Vitae Laboratory; and the Biennale des Imaginaires
Numériques
This collaborative project between the INBA in Tetouan and ESAAix explores video games as a space for critical and poetic experimentation. Over the course of two workshops, the young artists co-created games, installations, and hybrid playful objects centered on the repurposing, hacking, and subversion of video game mechanics. Code becomes a malleable medium, and the avatar, a potential political body.
Artist-teachers serving as mentors
Leslie Astier (ESAAix)
Salma Bahlaouane (INBA)
Mikael Fetri Daoudi (INBA)
Guillaume Stagnaro (ESAAix)
Participating students and graduates
Youness Behrit (INBA) – Badr Benfanich (INBA) – Selin Dincer (ESAAix) – Molly Dunbar (ESAAix) – Hasfa Errabboun (INBA) – Nicolas Fleurot (ESAAix) – Driss Jabri (INBA) – Oualid Lazrak (INBA/ESAAix) – Chaimaa Lehnech (INBA) – Marg Rassouw (ESAAix) – Tuna Suzgun (ESAAix)
