FW: URBAN GAMES: REAL ACTION in the WORLD of REALITY @eyebeam

Feb. 15, 2005

Type: discussion

—— Forwarded Message
From: Jenny Marketou <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:39:24 -0800 (PST)
To: Kevin McGarry <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: URBAN GAMES: REAL ACTION in the WORLD of REALITY @eyebeam

Urban Games: Real Action in the World of Reality.
A public discussion

In conjunction with the exhibition ?Produced at
Eyebeam: Work in Process? January 20 to March 5, 2005
and the launching of ?Flying Spy Potatoes: Mission
21st Street, NYC?, a mission based real action urban
game a collaboration of Jenny Marketou with Katie
Salen, Jenny Marketou in cooperation with Eyebeam are
organizing an informal public discussion about Urban
Games.

The aim of the discussion is to understand live
action game play ; to analyze the role of locative
media in the live action urban game industry and how
it can be used in a critical, radical and
entertaining way to create games which offer a new
kind of social imagination ; how to use locative
media to express an index of spatial relationships
and create physical net works ; to discuss the
future of live action urban games that engage a
general public of gamers ; to provide an opportunity
to discuss women?s involvement in the urban game
industry and play ; to present and discuss some of
the latest live action urban game research and
projects.

The participants in the discussion is :Jonah Brucker-
Cohen - Katherine Moriwaki (Networking and
Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG) at Trinity
College Dublin), McKenzie Wark ( New School
University) Amos Bloomberg (PAC-MANHATTAN) Christina
Ray (Glowlab), Jenny Marketou artist in residence at
Eyebeam AIR
( Cooper Union School of Art) and Katie Salen
( Director Graduate Design and Technology program at
Parsons School of Design).

The discussion will take place on Thursday, February
17, 2005 at Eyebeam, 21st Street, from 6:30 pm to
8:30 pm. The event is free to the public.

For more information please contact: www.eyebeam.org
or
[email protected]

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