This week we’ll be showing our games alongside software by other students at UC Davis at a public exhibition and book discussion in the ModLab at Cruess 234 this Thursday, December 7 from 4:30-7PM!
Please feel free to invite friends and family to check out what we’ve been working on. You can also tweet at #PlaysTheThing and find the event on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/856973917760600.
Here’s a short description of the event:
From the stage to the screen to the street, embodied forms of performance and protest are changing the way we play in the 21st century. Investigating playful media from a diverse range of contexts including performance studies, literary theory, art criticism, and game studies, new books like Darshana Jayemanne’s Performativity in Literature, Art, and Videogames (2017); Anne-Marie Schleiner The Player’s Power to Change the Game: Ludic Mutation (2017); Gina Bloom’s Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (forthcoming), and Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux’s Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames (2017) point toward new ways to engage the embodiment, materiality, and history of games.
Made possible by generous support from the Cinema and Digital Media Department, English Department, and ModLab at UC Davis.