[oldboys] PlaythingSymposium

Aug. 8, 2003

Type: discussion

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> From: josephine starrs <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri Aug 8, 2003 2:36:01 AM US/Eastern
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> Subject: [oldboys] PlaythingSymposium
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> dLux media arts
> In association with University of Sydney presents
> Future Screen 2003:
>
> Plaything.
> Choose Your Weapons!
> Digital Games Symposium: October 10,11,12, 2003
> Location: Sydney University, Eastern Ave Auditorium
>
> Plaything is a major international symposium focusing on current and
> future trends in the field of digital games, featuring key Australian
> and International game designers theorists and artists. Plaything
> will bring together people that develop, analyse and play digital
> games, and will provide a forum for discussion, play and critical
> discourse. Plaything is curated by Josephine Starrs.
>
> International Speakers Include:
> Eric Zimmerman
> Co-Founder and CEO of Gamelab, New York. Zimmerman has lectured in game
> design at MIT, NYU, and Parsons School of Design.
>
> Mary Flanagan
> US digital artist and cybercultural critic. Flanagan's co-edited
> book, Reload: rethinking Women and Cyberculture was published by MIT
> Press in 2002.
>
> Feng Mengbo
> Renowned Beijing artist whose work uses the the styles and structures
> of contemporary electronic games.
>
> Eugenie Shinkle
> Artist and Lecturer in photographic theory and criticism in the
> School of Media, Arts and Design at Westminster University, London,
> UK.
>
> Registrations for Plaything Symposium commence in August 2003.
> Registration for 3 days: $50.00
> Concession: $35.00
> Please visit www.dlux.org.au for updates.
> email: Vicky Clare <[email protected]>
>
> dLux media arts gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance
> received from the Australian Film Commission, New South Wales Film &
> Television Office, Australia Council for the Arts, New South Wales
> Ministry for the Arts, Sydney College of the Arts.
> and the University of Sydney's School of English, Art History, Film
> and Media and the Arts Informatics Program.
>
> dLux media arts: PO Box 306, Paddington, NSW, 2021. Phone: 02 9380 4255
>
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