happy new year.
The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media Presents:
Making and Breaking Rules: Game Design as Critical Practice
Katie Salen, Parsons School of Design, and
Eric Zimmerman, gameLab, NYC
Mon, 24 Jan, 7:30-9pm: UC Berkeley, 160 Kroeber Hall
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public.
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Despite their commercial explosion in pop cultural, games remain
largley unexplored as a critical practice with social and cultural
dimensions. Why are games important? What kinds of games "break the
rules" of mainstream computer and video games? How can making,
playing, and studying games illuminate larger social and cultural
issues?
This talk will focus on a range of projects created by the two
speakers, including games designed to be played in conferences,
offices, and urban spaces. Discussing their ideas, their processes,
and the games they make, Katie and Eric will address topics in design,
complex systems, emergent complexity, collaboration, competition,
social play, and games as interventions into urban spaces and everyday
life. Come to their talk prepared to play!
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Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman are game designers, academics, and game
scholars. They recently co-authored Rules of Play: Game Design
Fundamentals (MIT Press 2004), a first-of-its-kind textbook on game
design. A second volume of readings in game design is slated for
publication in Fall 2005.
Katie Salen is the Director of Graduate Studies, Design and
Technology, Parsons School of Design. She has curated programs on
games and culture for the Lincoln Center, the ZKM, and Exploding
Cinema, and is a contributing writer for RES magazine. She worked as
an animator on the critically acclaimed feature Waking Life and has
designed games for a range of clients including SIGGRAPH, the Design
Institute, gameLab, and mememe productions. Eric Zimmerman is the
co-founder and CEO of gameLab, an independent game development company
based in New York City that works with companies like Microsoft, PBS,
and LeapFrog to create games for a variety of media. He is a writer,
scholar, and a game industry advocate for independent and experimental
games.
http://www.rulesofplay.net
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The ATC is sponsored by UC Berkeley's: Center for New Media, Office of the
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, College of Engineering
Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Center for Information Technology in
the Interest of Society, Consortium for the Arts, BAM/PFA, Townsend Center
for the Humanities, and the Intel Corporation.
ATC Director: Ken Goldberg
ATC Associate Director: Greg Niemeyer
ATC Assistant: Therese Tierney
Curated with ATC Advisory Board
Full F04-S05 series schedule and video archive:
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/
Contact: [email protected], or phone: (510) 643-9565
atc @ ucb, on games, mon 24 jan, 7:30pm
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