Members of the board and managing team of EFGAMP
Jakob Moesgaard (Board Member)
Jakob is a curator at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has worked with videogame collection and preservation for a decade. Jakob is responsible for the library’s collection of videogames, apps, e-books and other digital material. His primary curatorial interest lies with smaller – and often overlooked – game productions, indie games, game jams, etc.
Marco Accordi Rickards (Board Member)
Journalist and writer Marco Accordi Rickards is VIGAMUS Foundation’s Founder and Executive Director. He’s in charge of VIGAMUS, the Video Game Museum of Rome and business unit VIGAMUS Academy, while being in the advisory board of Gamerome Developers Conference. He teaches Video Game History and Journalism at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and is Extraordinary Professor in Link Campus University, at the helm of gaming-focused Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees. A founding member of EFGAMP, the European Federation of Games Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects, he has published books for Mondadori, Carocci and is currently working for RAI (Cartoons on the Bay Festival) and Enciclopedia Treccani.
Laura Schmidt (Board Member)
Laura C. Schmidt studied Fine Arts (B.A.) at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain and holds a Master’s degree in Multimedia and Visual Arts from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. She studied Interaction Design at Joanneum University of Applied Science in Graz, Austria, and Public Interest Design at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Since 2023 she has been curator for games at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, where she had previously worked in various functions since 2020. Her main curatorial interest lies at the intersection of media art, games, and gaming culture.
Andreas Lange (COO)
Andreas Lange is founding director of the Computer Games Museum in Berlin and was its curator until August 2018. He studied Comparative Religions and Dramatics (M.A.) at Freie Universität Berlin. Besides other he is member of the „SIG Creative Industries“ of the Berlin chamber of commerce and industry and the SIG “Cultural Heritage” of the German Cultural Council. He also acts as an expert for the German Unesco commission in the field of cultural diversity.
Twitter: @A_Lange_Berlin