[NetBehaviour] Game Engine Cultures workshop at University of Liverpool, December 1st

[Paolo Ruffino]

Dear list members,
if you are in Liverpool on December 1st then you are cordially invited
to the Game Engine Cultures workshop!

The workshop is co-curated by Paolo Ruffino, member of artist group
IOCOSE and senior lecturer at the Department of Communication and
Media at UoL, and by Valentino Catricalà, curator and lecturer at the
School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. It is
organised by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life (CCEL).

Game engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine are now ubiquitous tools
in the digital arts and are widely used beyond videogame development
in fields such as film post-production, architecture, and fashion. The
workshop will explore how game engines shape our contemporary visual
culture, and how media studies and media arts can analyse and critique
their pervasiveness.

The workshop will include talks by:
Joseph DeLappe - Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay
University in Dundee, Scotland, and games and media arts pioneer;

Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson - founders of architecture
studio You+Pea and curators of the Videogame Urbanism project at the
Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL;

Aleena Chia - Lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
at Goldsmiths, University of London and researcher investigating
automation and platformisation in videogame development;

Vid Simoniti - Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at the University of
Liverpool, and researcher in the field of contemporary art, social
change, and new technologies.

Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions.

The event will start at 13:30 and last until 17:00, with food and
drinks afterwards. Address is 19 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L7 7BD,
School of the Arts Library.

Best wishes,

-- 
Paolo Ruffino