April Soetarman
is an artist, designer, and writer who creates public art, installations, interactive narratives, and weird side projects.︎︎︎
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︎ ︎Working Artist Board Game*
in-progress, coming 2026/2027Presented at:
- WordHack (2024)
- Creative Mornings: New York is Creative (2024)
- Index Space (2025)
Special thanks to Wooodward Residency and Worlds in Play for their support
A board game about being a working artist under capitalism.
Working Artist Board Game is competitive multiplayer board game about balancing the beauty and joy of making art and how it connects you with the world, contrasted with having to leverage your art as a commodity to survive under capitalism.
For 3-6 players. Currently running playtests, with game development updates sent to a private email list (signup below).
︎︎︎ Sign up to playtest the game (NYC/online) and for private in-progress updates
Working Artist Board Game is competitive multiplayer board game about balancing the beauty and joy of making art and how it connects you with the world, contrasted with having to leverage your art as a commodity to survive under capitalism.
For 3-6 players. Currently running playtests, with game development updates sent to a private email list (signup below).
︎︎︎ Sign up to playtest the game (NYC/online) and for private in-progress updates
gameplay photo by Katrina Lat