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Still of interactive game ‘Touch for Luck’. On a dark background are a few green fishes. Some are just purely green, while the others have various number of accessories such as colour patches or rectangular shapes. Near the bodies are also numbers or emojis like a smiley or a thumbs-up.

Artist Talk for Digital Commission:
'Touch for Luck'

Details
Artist: Moniker
Type: Talk
Language: English
Audience: Everyone
Location: Online via Zoom
Still of interactive game ‘Touch for Luck’. On a dark background are a few green fishes. Some are just purely green, while the others have various number of accessories such as colour patches or rectangular shapes. Near the bodies are also numbers or emojis like a smiley or a thumbs-up.

Artist Talk for Digital Commission:
'Touch for Luck'

Join us for the launch event of Touch for Luck, an inaugural M+ Facade digital commission. In this conversation, Amsterdam-based media and design studio Moniker, Ulanda Blair, Curator of Moving Image, and Kate Gu, Producer of Digital Special Projects at M+ will unpack the concept behind the interactive work and Moniker’s creative practice by exploring the influence of technology on our daily lives.

Have fun and explore the game before the talk!

This free event will take place on Zoom. Click on 'Get Tickets' to register and receive the meeting link via email.

On a black background is a colourful fish with numerous accessories made up of small rectangles, including numbers and icons like a heart, a smiley and a camera. The accessories are labelled, and below the fish is a legend, whose title reads, ‘The Ultimate Fish’.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

A ten-times-ten grid placed horizontally. The grid is diagonally divided into two halves, where the top left half is greyed out, and the bottom left half has one fish in each grid. The fish at the bottom left corner is purely green. The more rightwards and upwards the fishes are, the more colour accessories they have.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

Still of interactive game ‘Touch for Luck’. On a dark background are dozens of green fishes. Some are just purely green, while the others have various number of colour accessories and numbers. Some gather in groups, while some others are dispersed.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

On a black background is a colourful fish with numerous accessories made up of small rectangles, including numbers and icons like a heart, a smiley and a camera. The accessories are labelled, and below the fish is a legend, whose title reads, ‘The Ultimate Fish’.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

A ten-times-ten grid placed horizontally. The grid is diagonally divided into two halves, where the top left half is greyed out, and the bottom left half has one fish in each grid. The fish at the bottom left corner is purely green. The more rightwards and upwards the fishes are, the more colour accessories they have.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

Still of interactive game ‘Touch for Luck’. On a dark background are dozens of green fishes. Some are just purely green, while the others have various number of colour accessories and numbers. Some gather in groups, while some others are dispersed.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

On a black background is a colourful fish with numerous accessories made up of small rectangles, including numbers and icons like a heart, a smiley and a camera. The accessories are labelled, and below the fish is a legend, whose title reads, ‘The Ultimate Fish’.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

A ten-times-ten grid placed horizontally. The grid is diagonally divided into two halves, where the top left half is greyed out, and the bottom left half has one fish in each grid. The fish at the bottom left corner is purely green. The more rightwards and upwards the fishes are, the more colour accessories they have.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

Still of interactive game ‘Touch for Luck’. On a dark background are dozens of green fishes. Some are just purely green, while the others have various number of colour accessories and numbers. Some gather in groups, while some others are dispersed.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

On a black background is a colourful fish with numerous accessories made up of small rectangles, including numbers and icons like a heart, a smiley and a camera. The accessories are labelled, and below the fish is a legend, whose title reads, ‘The Ultimate Fish’.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

A ten-times-ten grid placed horizontally. The grid is diagonally divided into two halves, where the top left half is greyed out, and the bottom left half has one fish in each grid. The fish at the bottom left corner is purely green. The more rightwards and upwards the fishes are, the more colour accessories they have.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

Still of interactive game ‘Touch for Luck’. On a dark background are dozens of green fishes. Some are just purely green, while the others have various number of colour accessories and numbers. Some gather in groups, while some others are dispersed.

Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Sketch courtesy of Moniker

About the Artist

Moniker is an Amsterdam-based interaction and media design studio by Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters. The artists explore the characteristics of technology, including how we use it and how it influences our daily lives. The audience is often asked to take part in the development of their projects.

Moniker has won several awards, including a British Music Video Award, several Dutch Design Awards, and the Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst.

Half-length portrait of Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters. Maurer is a middle-aged woman with shoulder-length brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a red and white striped dress. Wouters is a middle-aged man with dark-brown curly short hair, short stubble beard and blue eyes, wearing a dark-blue top with two rows of buttons. They are grinning at the camera.

Portrait of founders of Moniker. (From left to right) Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters. Image courtesy of the artist

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Image at top: Moniker. Touch for Luck, Moniker. 2021. Image courtesy of Moniker

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