Dear list members, if you are in Liverpool on December 1st then you are cordially invited to the Game Engine Cultures workshop!
The workshop is co-curated by Paolo Ruffino, member of artist group IOCOSE and senior lecturer at the Department of Communication and Media at UoL, and by Valentino Catricalà, curator and lecturer at the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. It is organised by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life (CCEL). Game engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine are now ubiquitous tools in the digital arts and are widely used beyond videogame development in fields such as film post-production, architecture, and fashion. The workshop will explore how game engines shape our contemporary visual culture, and how media studies and media arts can analyse and critique their pervasiveness. The workshop will include talks by: Joseph DeLappe - Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, and games and media arts pioneer; Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson - founders of architecture studio You+Pea and curators of the Videogame Urbanism project at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL; Aleena Chia - Lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and researcher investigating automation and platformisation in videogame development; Vid Simoniti - Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at the University of Liverpool, and researcher in the field of contemporary art, social change, and new technologies. Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions. The event will start at 13:30 and last until 17:00, with food and drinks afterwards. Address is 19 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L7 7BD, School of the Arts Library. Best wishes, -- Paolo Ruffino _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
