Ben Rausch
Ben Rausch is an “artstronaut” - a multidisciplinary artist exploring the unknown, through new combinations of creativity and technology.
Since 2014, Ben’s primary focus has orbited around games, how they can disrupt status quos, bring people together, positively rewiring players and The World around them.
Ben is one third of the punk game band Team Lazerbeam, an organizer of the alternative games party Super Friendship Arcade, and programme director of the young Playtopia MGA festival. Team Lazerbeam are currently preparing to release their next game, Teenage Blob. The SFA and Playtopia families are currently hibernating and looking forward to a future where IRL events are once again possible.
Outside of games, Ben has spent the past 15 years animating (with his studio Cool Your Jets), shooting light out of a keytar (with bands like Johnny Foreigner and Indian Mynah), DJing (as Sassquatch), throwing parties, drawing comics, releasing records and petting cats.