Urban Miscellanea
2020-2022, 2025
Urban Miscellanea is an experimental multimedia anthology that celebrates creativity situated within the urban.
2020/21: States of Apprehension
2021/22: Urban emergency / urban rhythms
2025: Archiving
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Manamiko Kobakhidze2020/21
Common Hybrids
Videogame
Bio
Manana Kobakhidze (born 1991 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Digital artist in learning and illustrator currently living in Germany. In 2017 she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Graphics from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. As a DAAD scholarship holder, she is currently studying for a Masters Degree in Digital Media at University of Arts Bremen.
Common Hybrids is a game of creating and assembling connections between players. This game, or non-game, is based on a Georgian phenomenon called Kamikaze Loggia: structures built out of the block residential buildings by self-acknowledged architects, citizens of post-soviet Georgia.
These structures are generally feeble, dependent on, and built upon each other. This game shows the necessity of lost connections. Also, Common Hybrids touches on the topic of free play (Isamu Noguchi), where everyone can decide upon the rules of how to make these structures.