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Transitio MX Exhibition and Panels

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A team of TAG students and faculty will be curating games centered around the themes of resistance, protest, and surveillance for this year’s Transitio_MX, an electronic arts festival held in Mexico City. The festival runs from September 25-October 4, and features a wide range of playable electronic art, performances, and workshops, as well as a 3-day symposium running from October 1-3. TAG representatives will also be presenting on panels during the symposium.

Speakers and curators from TAG include Ida Toft, Carolyn …

Conferences and Crisis

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At the end of April, in the midst of one of the worst academic crunch periods I’ve ever experienced, I travelled to California to attend the IMMERSe Medievalism and Video Games Symposium in the small town of Davis. I spent most of my first day grading papers, but managed to escape my hotel room for a few hours to attend a joint reception and launch event for the GameCamp Game Jam, an initiative organized by Amanda …

Game Co-ops and Unions: Discussion & Summary Now Online

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Curious about what unionization might mean for the game industry? Interested in alternative organizational models for game-makers? Well today’s your lucky day! Joachim Despland and I have posted a summary of the October 2 5a7 discussion on cooperatives and unions in the game industry, which you can find here: http://forum.mrgs.ca/t/coops-et-syndicats-co-ops-and-unions/93
Some of the topics/questions we cover include:
How do businesses work in general, and what does this mean for the distribution of power and the relationship between …

TAG 5a7 Symposium Cancelled for Arcade 11

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As you may have heard, Arcade 11 is happening this week from March 6-8 as part of the Montreal Joue Game Festival. The event runs for 3 days and will feature a number of game-related workshops and activities, microtalks, and an arcade curated by Skot Deeming showcasing DIY and experimental games. With so much going on we decided we didn’t really need another event on top of it all, so we’ve opted to cancel the 5a7 …

February 6 5a7 Symposium – Arcade 11 Preview

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Join TAG researcher Skot Deeming and Concordia Research Liason Prem Sooriyakumar for a preview of Arcade 11, a 3 day DIY Arcade and open house, hosted by TAG during the Montreal Joue Festival (http://arene.bibliomontreal.com/festival-montreal-joue-2014). Skot and Prem will give an indepth preview of the games and activities that other TAG researchers will be hosting during the festival, including 3D printing demos, workshops, papercraft, boardgames and more.
After the presentation, several of the games that have been …

Call for Presentations – TAG 5a7 Symposium

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It’s that time of year again. The 5a7s are up and running, every Thursday from 5-7pm in the Hexagram Game Lab (EV 11.425), and we need ideas for discussions, presentations, theme nights, etc. If you have something you’d like to present, a topic you want to discuss, an idea you want to brainstorm, a game you want to show off or playtest, or anything else that comes to mind, please send a brief description (a …