“It looks to be a great day,” says Head of VFS Game Design – and Game Design Expo 2010 emcee – Dave Warfield of the slate of presenters and panelists.

Learn about Game Design Expo at gamedesignexpo.com.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign

James Portnow, CEO of Rainmaker Studios – and one of the minds behind the successful web series Extra Credits, visited the VFS Game Design campus to meet with and inspire students. James discussed the aesthetics of game design, focusing on the importance of player experience, and the responsibility of game designers in creating that experience.

You can read more about James' visit on the VFS Blog.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

In Foldit, players solve puzzles based on real proteins.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

44 game developers challenged their creativity over 2 days at VFS’s Game Design 2Jam, Vancouver’s newest and most exciting game jam where 2-person teams created 2-minute 2-player duelling games.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

Find out more about VFS's annual Game Design Expo at www.gamedesignexpo.com/

To learn more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program, visit www.vfs.com/gamedesign

Test for Saber Interactive

MARCH 27 2019/27 MARZO 2019

18:00 - 19:00

Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)

Università IULM (IULM 1)

Via Carlo Bo, 1

20143 Milan

gamedesign.university/joseph-delappe

PLAYING POLITICS: HEADSHOT!

In this talk, media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe will describe a lineage of creative projects and actions situated at the intersections of computer gaming, art/technology, and interventionist strategies engaging our geopolitical contexts. DeLappe will detail an approach to considering computer gaming environments online as a new type of public space; within which he has conducted a series of interventionist performances and actions, such as the 2006 project dead‐in‐iraq, to type consecutively, all names of America's military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America's Army first-person shooter online recruiting game. More recent projects include Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), a self-playing mod as a data visualizer of gun homicides in the United States as realized through this popular video game.

Joseph DeLappe is Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. Works in online gaming performance, public engagements, participatory sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and internationally. He has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among others. Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media. In 2016 he collaborated with the Biome Collective in Dundee to create Killbox, a game about drone warfare that was nominated in 2017 for a BAFTA Scotland in the “Best Computer Game” category. In 2017 he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, one of the top awards for artists, writers and creatives in the United States.

POLITICA IN GIOCO: HEADSHOT!

In questo intervento, il media artist e attivista Joseph DeLappe illustra progetti, interventi e azioni creative che si collocano all’intersezione tra videogioco, arte, tecnologia e ideologia in differenti contesti geopolitici. DeLappe considera i videogiochi online una nuova tipologia di spazio pubblico, un palcoscenico virtuale nel quale dare vita a performance di ogni tipo. Gli interventi di DeLappe includono dead-in-iraq (2006), che prevedeva l’inserimento via chat dei nomi delle vittime militari statunitensi della guerra in Iraq nel videogioco di reclutamento online America’s Army fino al recentissimo Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), una modifica del popolare action game di Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V, che visualizza in tempo reale le statistiche sugli omicidi da arma da fuoco negli Stati Uniti.

Joseph DeLappe è Professor of Games and Tactical Media presso l’Abertay University di Dundee, Scozia. La sua pratica privilegia le performance di gioco online e in pubblico, la scultura partecipativa e le installazioni elettromeccaniche sono state esposte negli Stati Uniti e a livello internazionale. Ha creato installazioni site-specific per Eyebeam Art and Technology a New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, Cina e Transitio MX, a Città del Messico, tra gli altri. Le sue opere e performance sono state citate su riviste accademiche, libri e mass media. Nel 2016 ha collaborato con il Biome Collective di Dundee per creare Killbox, un videogioco che tematizza l’uso dei droni finalista dei premi BAFTA 2017 nella categoria Best Computer Game. Nel 2017 ha ottenuto la Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, uno dei riconoscimenti più prestigiosi per artisti, scrittori e creativi negli Stati Uniti.

Find out more about VFS's annual Game Design Expo at www.gamedesignexpo.com/

To learn more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program, visit www.vfs.com/gamedesign

Head of Game Design Dave Warfield welcomes everyone at the Open House.

Learn about Game Design Expo at gamedesignexpo.com.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

In February, 2011, VFS opened the doors of the brand new Game Design campus.

The Game Design program at VFS takes you from concept to alpha to beta to final in just one year. You work closely with video game industry mentors in an immersive environment that mirrors that of a professional studio as you design, produce, and present fully playable games. Storytelling, level design, game art, motion capture, scripting, cinematics, and the business of games are all just a part of what you will learn.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

Director of Design at Bethesda, Bruce Nesmith, signs an autograph for an enthusiastic fan.

Learn about Game Design Expo at gamedesignexpo.com.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

Mitchell Lagran shares an insightful presentation on holistic game design, in which he encourages aspiring game designers to look at the big picture.

Learn about Game Design Expo at gamedesignexpo.com.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

James Portnow, CEO of Rainmaker Studios – and one of the minds behind the successful web series Extra Credits, visited the VFS Game Design campus to meet with and inspire students. James discussed the aesthetics of game design, focusing on the importance of player experience, and the responsibility of game designers in creating that experience.

You can read more about James' visit on the VFS Blog.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

In February, 2011, VFS opened the doors of the brand new Game Design campus.

The Game Design program at VFS takes you from concept to alpha to beta to final in just one year. You work closely with video game industry mentors in an immersive environment that mirrors that of a professional studio as you design, produce, and present fully playable games. Storytelling, level design, game art, motion capture, scripting, cinematics, and the business of games are all just a part of what you will learn.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

In February, 2011, VFS opened the doors of the brand new Game Design campus.

The Game Design program at VFS takes you from concept to alpha to beta to final in just one year. You work closely with video game industry mentors in an immersive environment that mirrors that of a professional studio as you design, produce, and present fully playable games. Storytelling, level design, game art, motion capture, scripting, cinematics, and the business of games are all just a part of what you will learn.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

Find out more about VFS's annual Game Design Expo at www.gamedesignexpo.com/

To learn more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program, visit www.vfs.com/gamedesign

The Open House offered aspiring game designers the opportunity to test out student games, and participate in game design classes.

Learn about Game Design Expo at gamedesignexpo.com.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

Global BC visited Vancouver Film School to give viewers an inside look at the VFS experience. The special "back to school" broadcast featured demonstrations and interviews with faculty, students, and alumni from a wide range of VFS programs including Sound Design, Digital Character Animation, Acting, and Makeup Design.

Find out more about these one-year programs and more at vfs.com/programs.

Software and Game Design round 2 of the Imagine Cup 2012 and their great presentations! Watch the best of IC teams!

You are the STORY!

Welcome to Sydney, Welcome to Imagine Cup 2012.

Imagine Cup Properties:

Website: www.imaginecup.com/

Blog: www.imaginecup.com/blogs/default.aspx

Twitter: twitter.com/imaginecup

Facebook: www.facebook.com/microsoftimaginecup

Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/imaginecup/

See more of the MSPSMT online!

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Uploaded By: MSPSMT Robert Staniucha

Associate Lead Designer at BioWare Austin, Emmanuel Lusinchi, shares some of the lessons learned while making Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Learn about Game Design Expo at gamedesignexpo.com.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

Find out more about VFS's annual Game Design Expo at www.gamedesignexpo.com/

To learn more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program, visit www.vfs.com/gamedesign

Long days after i touched my digital brush again.. i played with Photoshop,gimp, and its took around 16 hrs to complete this...from scratch..

Imagine Cup 2012 participants are preparing for presentations of the first round of the Game and Software Design competition and Phone.

You are the STORY!

Find our MSP Social Media Team Member in orange,

Welcome to Sydney, Welcome to Imagine Cup 2012!

Imagine Cup Properties:

Website: www.imaginecup.com/

Twitter: twitter.com/imaginecup

Facebook: www.facebook.com/microsoftimaginecup

Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/imaginecup/

See more of the MSPSMT online!

Facebook: www.facebook.com/imaginecupsocialmediateam

Twitter: www.twitter.com/mspsmt

YouTube: www.youtube.com/wwmsp

Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/mspsmt

44 game developers challenged their creativity over 2 days at VFS’s Game Design 2Jam, Vancouver’s newest and most exciting game jam where 2-person teams created 2-minute 2-player duelling games.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

44 game developers challenged their creativity over 2 days at VFS’s Game Design 2Jam, Vancouver’s newest and most exciting game jam where 2-person teams created 2-minute 2-player duelling games.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

MARCH 27 2019/27 MARZO 2019

18:00 - 19:00

Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)

Università IULM (IULM 1)

Via Carlo Bo, 1

20143 Milan

gamedesign.university/joseph-delappe

PLAYING POLITICS: HEADSHOT!

In this talk, media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe will describe a lineage of creative projects and actions situated at the intersections of computer gaming, art/technology, and interventionist strategies engaging our geopolitical contexts. DeLappe will detail an approach to considering computer gaming environments online as a new type of public space; within which he has conducted a series of interventionist performances and actions, such as the 2006 project dead‐in‐iraq, to type consecutively, all names of America's military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America's Army first-person shooter online recruiting game. More recent projects include Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), a self-playing mod as a data visualizer of gun homicides in the United States as realized through this popular video game.

Joseph DeLappe is Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. Works in online gaming performance, public engagements, participatory sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and internationally. He has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among others. Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media. In 2016 he collaborated with the Biome Collective in Dundee to create Killbox, a game about drone warfare that was nominated in 2017 for a BAFTA Scotland in the “Best Computer Game” category. In 2017 he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, one of the top awards for artists, writers and creatives in the United States.

POLITICA IN GIOCO: HEADSHOT!

In questo intervento, il media artist e attivista Joseph DeLappe illustra progetti, interventi e azioni creative che si collocano all’intersezione tra videogioco, arte, tecnologia e ideologia in differenti contesti geopolitici. DeLappe considera i videogiochi online una nuova tipologia di spazio pubblico, un palcoscenico virtuale nel quale dare vita a performance di ogni tipo. Gli interventi di DeLappe includono dead-in-iraq (2006), che prevedeva l’inserimento via chat dei nomi delle vittime militari statunitensi della guerra in Iraq nel videogioco di reclutamento online America’s Army fino al recentissimo Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), una modifica del popolare action game di Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V, che visualizza in tempo reale le statistiche sugli omicidi da arma da fuoco negli Stati Uniti.

Joseph DeLappe è Professor of Games and Tactical Media presso l’Abertay University di Dundee, Scozia. La sua pratica privilegia le performance di gioco online e in pubblico, la scultura partecipativa e le installazioni elettromeccaniche sono state esposte negli Stati Uniti e a livello internazionale. Ha creato installazioni site-specific per Eyebeam Art and Technology a New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, Cina e Transitio MX, a Città del Messico, tra gli altri. Le sue opere e performance sono state citate su riviste accademiche, libri e mass media. Nel 2016 ha collaborato con il Biome Collective di Dundee per creare Killbox, un videogioco che tematizza l’uso dei droni finalista dei premi BAFTA 2017 nella categoria Best Computer Game. Nel 2017 ha ottenuto la Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, uno dei riconoscimenti più prestigiosi per artisti, scrittori e creativi negli Stati Uniti.

44 game developers challenged their creativity over 2 days at VFS’s Game Design 2Jam, Vancouver’s newest and most exciting game jam where 2-person teams created 2-minute 2-player duelling games.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

Find out more about VFS's annual Game Design Expo at www.gamedesignexpo.com

To learn more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program, visit www.vfs.com/gamedesign

Archiving my very 1st teenage steps with the Atari 800XL in the form of a folder full of code, sketches & references (all created between 1988-1991)... I started with writing pure hex code, then taught myself the 6502 flavour of Assembler (only learned Z80 before) but then got more & more into game design, icons & demo scene activities (as coder, gfx and chiptunes & co-organizer) and started building several tools & games (incl. The Brundles, a commercial Lemmings clone for the 8-bit Atari in '93)

James Portnow, CEO of Rainmaker Studios – and one of the minds behind the successful web series Extra Credits, visited the VFS Game Design campus to meet with and inspire students. James discussed the aesthetics of game design, focusing on the importance of player experience, and the responsibility of game designers in creating that experience.

You can read more about James' visit on the VFS Blog.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

44 game developers challenged their creativity over 2 days at VFS’s Game Design 2Jam, Vancouver’s newest and most exciting game jam where 2-person teams created 2-minute 2-player duelling games.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

Imagine Cup 2012 participants are preparing for presentations of the first round of the Game and Software Design competition and Phone.

You are the STORY!

Find our MSP Social Media Team Member in orange,

Welcome to Sydney, Welcome to Imagine Cup 2012!

Imagine Cup Properties:

Website: www.imaginecup.com/

Twitter: twitter.com/imaginecup

Facebook: www.facebook.com/microsoftimaginecup

Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/imaginecup/

See more of the MSPSMT online!

Facebook: www.facebook.com/imaginecupsocialmediateam

Twitter: www.twitter.com/mspsmt

YouTube: www.youtube.com/wwmsp

Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/mspsmt

MARCH 27 2019/27 MARZO 2019

18:00 - 19:00

Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)

Università IULM (IULM 1)

Via Carlo Bo, 1

20143 Milan

gamedesign.university/joseph-delappe

PLAYING POLITICS: HEADSHOT!

In this talk, media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe will describe a lineage of creative projects and actions situated at the intersections of computer gaming, art/technology, and interventionist strategies engaging our geopolitical contexts. DeLappe will detail an approach to considering computer gaming environments online as a new type of public space; within which he has conducted a series of interventionist performances and actions, such as the 2006 project dead‐in‐iraq, to type consecutively, all names of America's military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America's Army first-person shooter online recruiting game. More recent projects include Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), a self-playing mod as a data visualizer of gun homicides in the United States as realized through this popular video game.

Joseph DeLappe is Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. Works in online gaming performance, public engagements, participatory sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and internationally. He has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among others. Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media. In 2016 he collaborated with the Biome Collective in Dundee to create Killbox, a game about drone warfare that was nominated in 2017 for a BAFTA Scotland in the “Best Computer Game” category. In 2017 he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, one of the top awards for artists, writers and creatives in the United States.

POLITICA IN GIOCO: HEADSHOT!

In questo intervento, il media artist e attivista Joseph DeLappe illustra progetti, interventi e azioni creative che si collocano all’intersezione tra videogioco, arte, tecnologia e ideologia in differenti contesti geopolitici. DeLappe considera i videogiochi online una nuova tipologia di spazio pubblico, un palcoscenico virtuale nel quale dare vita a performance di ogni tipo. Gli interventi di DeLappe includono dead-in-iraq (2006), che prevedeva l’inserimento via chat dei nomi delle vittime militari statunitensi della guerra in Iraq nel videogioco di reclutamento online America’s Army fino al recentissimo Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), una modifica del popolare action game di Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V, che visualizza in tempo reale le statistiche sugli omicidi da arma da fuoco negli Stati Uniti.

Joseph DeLappe è Professor of Games and Tactical Media presso l’Abertay University di Dundee, Scozia. La sua pratica privilegia le performance di gioco online e in pubblico, la scultura partecipativa e le installazioni elettromeccaniche sono state esposte negli Stati Uniti e a livello internazionale. Ha creato installazioni site-specific per Eyebeam Art and Technology a New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, Cina e Transitio MX, a Città del Messico, tra gli altri. Le sue opere e performance sono state citate su riviste accademiche, libri e mass media. Nel 2016 ha collaborato con il Biome Collective di Dundee per creare Killbox, un videogioco che tematizza l’uso dei droni finalista dei premi BAFTA 2017 nella categoria Best Computer Game. Nel 2017 ha ottenuto la Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, uno dei riconoscimenti più prestigiosi per artisti, scrittori e creativi negli Stati Uniti.

JUNE 4 2019/4 GIUGNO 2019

18:00 - 19:00

Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)

Università IULM (IULM 1)

Via Carlo Bo, 1

20143 Milan

gamedesign.university

7 1/2 OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE SHORTEST FOUR-LETTER WORD IN GAMES

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

When players enjoy a game, they say, “That was fun!” When designers make, journalists review, or academics theorize about a game, the word fun rarely comes up. A word so commonplace as to sound meaningless and typically ignored, “fun" remains unmentioned by those who make and write about games. This talk looks beyond game development, game journalism and game studies for ideas to help us better understand the role of fun in games and beyond. Drawing on fields as diverse as cognitive psychology, anthropology, cultural theory, the philosophy of art, and sociology, Sharp explores the power and potential of fun as useful concept and tool for experiencing, thinking about, and understanding play.

historian, curator and educator with thirty years of involvement in the creation and study of art and design. John's current design work focuses on cultural games, artgames and non-digital games. His current research addresses game aesthetics, the processes of creativity, and the intersections of aesthetics and ethics. Sharp is Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design at the New School. He is the author of Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) and coauthor (with Colleen Macklin) of Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure and (with David Thomas) Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp and Macklin are Codirectors of the PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) at Parsons. John was the curator of Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) and A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, co-curator Jason Eppink) at the Museum of the Moving Image and co-curator of XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) at the Museum of Design-Atlanta. John’s Games include The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).

7 OSSERVAZIONI E 1/2 SULLA PAROLA DI QUATTRO LETTERE PIÙ CORTA NEI GIOCHI

Quando un giocatore s’imbatte in un’esperienza ludica particolarmente avvincente, spesso esclama: "Wow, è veramente divertente!". Eppure designer, giornalisti e accademici raramente utilizzano il termine “divertimento” per riferisi ai videogiochi. Questo sostantivo è così vago e generico che persino chi sviluppa o scrive di videogiochi tende a ignorarlo. Beninteso, il fenomeno non riguarda solo game design, giornalismo e game studies, ma la cultura in quanto tale. In un avvincente excursus che attinge a piene mani dalla psicologia cognitiva, dall'antropologia, dalla teoria culturale, dalla filosofia dell'arte e alla sociologia - Sharp esplora il potenziale del divertimento per ripensare l’attività del giocare.

John Sharp è un designer, storico dell'arte, curatore ed educatore con trent'anni di esperienza nello sviluppo e nello studio dell'arte e del design. La sua ricerca si concentra sui videogiochi culturali, artistici e analogici, con particolare attenzione all'estetica videoludica, i processi creativi e le intersezioni tra estetica ed etica. Professore Associato alla Scuola di Arte, Media e Tecnologia della Parsons School of Design (New School), è l’autore di Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) e coautore (con Colleen Macklin) di Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure e (con David Thomas) Fun, Taste, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp e Macklin sono i direttori del PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) alla Parsons School of Design. Ha curato numerose mostre tra cui Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) e A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, insieme a Jason Eppink) al Museum of the Moving Image. Ha co-curato XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) al Museum of Design-Atlanta. Come designer, ha realizzato The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).

John Sharp is a designer, art

Find out more about VFS's annual Game Design Expo at www.gamedesignexpo.com/

To learn more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program, visit www.vfs.com/gamedesign

Archiving my very 1st teenage steps with the Atari 800XL in the form of a folder full of code, sketches & references (all created between 1988-1991)... I started with writing pure hex code, then taught myself the 6502 flavour of Assembler (only learned Z80 before) but then got more & more into game design, icons & demo scene activities (as coder, gfx and chiptunes & co-organizer) and started building several tools & games (incl. The Brundles, a commercial Lemmings clone for the 8-bit Atari in '93)

Archiving my very 1st teenage steps with the Atari 800XL in the form of a folder full of code, sketches & references (all created between 1988-1991)... I started with writing pure hex code, then taught myself the 6502 flavour of Assembler (only learned Z80 before) but then got more & more into game design, icons & demo scene activities (as coder, gfx and chiptunes & co-organizer) and started building several tools & games (incl. The Brundles, a commercial Lemmings clone for the 8-bit Atari in '93)

The chessmen are all either single pieces of wood, like the mushroom-button pawns; or they are glued together. The bishop is two pieces of wood; the queen is three (a base, a bead, and a dowel threaded between them), and the knight is four pieces. The sets are matched across the board by the parallel black pieces.

MARCH 27 2019/27 MARZO 2019

18:00 - 19:00

Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)

Università IULM (IULM 1)

Via Carlo Bo, 1

20143 Milan

gamedesign.university/joseph-delappe

PLAYING POLITICS: HEADSHOT!

In this talk, media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe will describe a lineage of creative projects and actions situated at the intersections of computer gaming, art/technology, and interventionist strategies engaging our geopolitical contexts. DeLappe will detail an approach to considering computer gaming environments online as a new type of public space; within which he has conducted a series of interventionist performances and actions, such as the 2006 project dead‐in‐iraq, to type consecutively, all names of America's military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America's Army first-person shooter online recruiting game. More recent projects include Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), a self-playing mod as a data visualizer of gun homicides in the United States as realized through this popular video game.

Joseph DeLappe is Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. Works in online gaming performance, public engagements, participatory sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and internationally. He has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among others. Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media. In 2016 he collaborated with the Biome Collective in Dundee to create Killbox, a game about drone warfare that was nominated in 2017 for a BAFTA Scotland in the “Best Computer Game” category. In 2017 he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, one of the top awards for artists, writers and creatives in the United States.

POLITICA IN GIOCO: HEADSHOT!

In questo intervento, il media artist e attivista Joseph DeLappe illustra progetti, interventi e azioni creative che si collocano all’intersezione tra videogioco, arte, tecnologia e ideologia in differenti contesti geopolitici. DeLappe considera i videogiochi online una nuova tipologia di spazio pubblico, un palcoscenico virtuale nel quale dare vita a performance di ogni tipo. Gli interventi di DeLappe includono dead-in-iraq (2006), che prevedeva l’inserimento via chat dei nomi delle vittime militari statunitensi della guerra in Iraq nel videogioco di reclutamento online America’s Army fino al recentissimo Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), una modifica del popolare action game di Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V, che visualizza in tempo reale le statistiche sugli omicidi da arma da fuoco negli Stati Uniti.

Joseph DeLappe è Professor of Games and Tactical Media presso l’Abertay University di Dundee, Scozia. La sua pratica privilegia le performance di gioco online e in pubblico, la scultura partecipativa e le installazioni elettromeccaniche sono state esposte negli Stati Uniti e a livello internazionale. Ha creato installazioni site-specific per Eyebeam Art and Technology a New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, Cina e Transitio MX, a Città del Messico, tra gli altri. Le sue opere e performance sono state citate su riviste accademiche, libri e mass media. Nel 2016 ha collaborato con il Biome Collective di Dundee per creare Killbox, un videogioco che tematizza l’uso dei droni finalista dei premi BAFTA 2017 nella categoria Best Computer Game. Nel 2017 ha ottenuto la Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, uno dei riconoscimenti più prestigiosi per artisti, scrittori e creativi negli Stati Uniti.

MARCH 27 2019/27 MARZO 2019

18:00 - 19:00

Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)

Università IULM (IULM 1)

Via Carlo Bo, 1

20143 Milan

gamedesign.university/joseph-delappe

PLAYING POLITICS: HEADSHOT!

In this talk, media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe will describe a lineage of creative projects and actions situated at the intersections of computer gaming, art/technology, and interventionist strategies engaging our geopolitical contexts. DeLappe will detail an approach to considering computer gaming environments online as a new type of public space; within which he has conducted a series of interventionist performances and actions, such as the 2006 project dead‐in‐iraq, to type consecutively, all names of America's military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America's Army first-person shooter online recruiting game. More recent projects include Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), a self-playing mod as a data visualizer of gun homicides in the United States as realized through this popular video game.

Joseph DeLappe is Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. Works in online gaming performance, public engagements, participatory sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and internationally. He has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among others. Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media. In 2016 he collaborated with the Biome Collective in Dundee to create Killbox, a game about drone warfare that was nominated in 2017 for a BAFTA Scotland in the “Best Computer Game” category. In 2017 he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, one of the top awards for artists, writers and creatives in the United States.

POLITICA IN GIOCO: HEADSHOT!

In questo intervento, il media artist e attivista Joseph DeLappe illustra progetti, interventi e azioni creative che si collocano all’intersezione tra videogioco, arte, tecnologia e ideologia in differenti contesti geopolitici. DeLappe considera i videogiochi online una nuova tipologia di spazio pubblico, un palcoscenico virtuale nel quale dare vita a performance di ogni tipo. Gli interventi di DeLappe includono dead-in-iraq (2006), che prevedeva l’inserimento via chat dei nomi delle vittime militari statunitensi della guerra in Iraq nel videogioco di reclutamento online America’s Army fino al recentissimo Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), una modifica del popolare action game di Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V, che visualizza in tempo reale le statistiche sugli omicidi da arma da fuoco negli Stati Uniti.

Joseph DeLappe è Professor of Games and Tactical Media presso l’Abertay University di Dundee, Scozia. La sua pratica privilegia le performance di gioco online e in pubblico, la scultura partecipativa e le installazioni elettromeccaniche sono state esposte negli Stati Uniti e a livello internazionale. Ha creato installazioni site-specific per Eyebeam Art and Technology a New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, Cina e Transitio MX, a Città del Messico, tra gli altri. Le sue opere e performance sono state citate su riviste accademiche, libri e mass media. Nel 2016 ha collaborato con il Biome Collective di Dundee per creare Killbox, un videogioco che tematizza l’uso dei droni finalista dei premi BAFTA 2017 nella categoria Best Computer Game. Nel 2017 ha ottenuto la Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, uno dei riconoscimenti più prestigiosi per artisti, scrittori e creativi negli Stati Uniti.