Simon Løvind
Danish Film Institute (DK)

Simon Løvind is head of the unit for Games & Digital Media at the Danish Film Institute. He functions as a commissioning editor and has been running and defining the cultural support scheme for games at the Danish Film Institute in more than 10 years. He has a work background in interaction design a well as game design and have also produced interactive installation art. For periods he has been a design teacher at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Design and back in the days - when ‘new media’ was still new - he was a new media researcher.

Specialities: Games development and evaluation, Interaction design, concept development, physical computing, interactive installations.

I have among others worked for The Danish Film Institute, shiftcontrol, DR (the Danish Broadcast Corporation), Deadline Games, Interactive Institute/Sweden, Easy Film, Designskolen Kolding and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Design besides numerous freelance and art projects.