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Demonz

5pm - 10pm, Thu, Fri, Sat Sun Square

By: INITI Interactive

Creative Team: ARTshifters

Demonz by INITI Interactive turns a building facade into a giant, glowing battleground where the digital and the real collide.

 

Mischievous creatures flicker to life on screen, daring participants to knock them out with soft balls — every successful hit triggering a burst of light, colour and sound, gone again in an instant.

 

In keeping with this year’s theme, Demonz thrives on the fleeting: each creature appears only to vanish, each burst of light flashes and fades, and each round is a fresh, ephemeral rush of chaos, laughter and connection. Fast, communal and endlessly replayable, it proves it’s always okay to never grow up.

https://www.artshifters.eu/demonz

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