IMPAKT presents a new hybrid party game experience by Roos Groothuizen and Derk Over. We invite you to play Project Stargaze and explore how the human body is developing in response to our increased use of technology. To play you need to team up with a friend: one of you will be physically present at the IMPAKT Centre in Utrecht while the other will join online. Together you will experience the single hybrid body of the future. Book your time slot with your teammate to join the game.

We are on the verge of a new evolutionary step – our transition into the hybrid human. This new body will be fully adapted to living simultaneously online and offline. For now, everything still feels uncomfortable and we are still getting used to having a digital presence alongside our physical one. Play the Project Stargaze game and experience the evolutionary process that lies ahead of us by providing a series of challenges for your physical and digital consciousness. 

In this multi-team party game, you will pair up to help design the society of the future. One player in each pair will be physically present in the space while the other is online, connected to the game through a video call. Together, you will form a single hybrid body that ‘physically’ connects the online and offline player. How will you cooperate with your partner and the other duos to tackle the challenges of this new society?

About the makers
Project Stargaze was developed by Roos Groothuizen and Derk Over. Groothuizen is a media artist fighting for digital human rights. In her own practice and as part of the art collective Telemagic, she researches human and non-human aspects of invisible algorithms, information filters and unfair distribution. Over produces cultural projects at the intersection of queerness, fantasy subculture and gaming. Over founded the Utrecht theatre and game collective Queer Arcana and teaches the Games & Interaction BA programme at HKU University of the Arts.

Supporting talented Utrecht-based makers
In 2022, IMPAKT commissioned two hybrid artworks by Utrecht-based artists. Project Stargaze is one of the two selected artworks. The second project, The Great Idle  by Benjamin Pompe, will be presented on 31 May. Read more about The Great Idle here
The commissions were funded by the province of Utrecht through its Talented Makers Support Package (Presentatieregeling Talentvolle makers).
Project Stargaze was co-funded by Werktank, Leuven (Belgium).