Zuraida "zoewi" Buter

Zuraida Buter is a playful arts curator based in Amsterdam. She curates, initiates, consults and documents events and projects focused on playful arts, digital culture and games. Zuraida was co-founder of Playful Arts Festival (2012-2018) in ’s Hertogenbosch (NL), which explored the intersection of interactive performing arts, visual art and playful design. Under the banner of zo-ii, Zuraida has worked on numerous national and international projects such as Incubate Arcade (NL), Global Game Jam, INDIGO (NL), The Overkill (NL), Screenshake (BE), Playtime 20.22 (BE), Patchlab Festival (PL), Counterplay (DK) and IndieCade Europe (FR), highlighting and connecting a wide range of different (game) projects and artists throughout the years.

In 2020 Zuraida was awarded the Game Changer award by IndieCade (US). She is currently the program curator for A MAZE. / Berlin (DE) and she works with Sickhouse (NL) on projects such as The Overkill Festival.