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GAME ENGINES BEYOND GAMES
Session 8 - Day 1
Colleen Macklin in Conversation With Phoenix Perry
Aug 29th 2020
GAME ENGINES BEYOND GAMES was a two-day a symposium that brought together artists, curators and scholars to explore the expanded concept of game engines.
Speakers:
Colleen Macklin is a game designer and Associate Professor in the school of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design. In 2006 she founded and co-directs PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab), a lab that develops games for experimental learning and social engagement. They are a member of the game design collective Local No. 12, makers of the card game The Metagame (2015), and the videogame, Dear Reader (2019). She co-authored with John Sharp Games, Design and Play: A detailed look at iterative game design (2016) and Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure (2019)
Phoenix Perry is an artist and activist who often uses culture as a medium. She's got an odd compulsion to bring systems thinking into communities and is interested in how organizational structures can impact social change. Often she experiments with different forms of social engagement through conceptual ideas, such as graph theory, emergent systems, and mesh networks. She likes to think of building organizational structures like writing social fictions. Her work includes founding roles in Code Liberation, UAL Creative Coding Institute, and Devotion Gallery in New York.
GAME ENGINES BEYOND GAMES
Session 8 - Day 1
Colleen Macklin in Conversation With Phoenix Perry
Aug 29th 2020
GAME ENGINES BEYOND GAMES was a two-day a symposium that brought together artists, curators and scholars to explore the expanded concept of game engines.
Speakers:
Colleen Macklin is a game designer and Associate Professor in the school of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design. In 2006 she founded and co-directs PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab), a lab that develops games for experimental learning and social engagement. They are a member of the game design collective Local No. 12, makers of the card game The Metagame (2015), and the videogame, Dear Reader (2019). She co-authored with John Sharp Games, Design and Play: A detailed look at iterative game design (2016) and Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure (2019)
Phoenix Perry is an artist and activist who often uses culture as a medium. She's got an odd compulsion to bring systems thinking into communities and is interested in how organizational structures can impact social change. Often she experiments with different forms of social engagement through conceptual ideas, such as graph theory, emergent systems, and mesh networks. She likes to think of building organizational structures like writing social fictions. Her work includes founding roles in Code Liberation, UAL Creative Coding Institute, and Devotion Gallery in New York.
