Game Designer Pippin Barr will teach one summer term course and serve as an adviser and resource for students, faculty, and researchers on campus. Dr. Barr will be in residence at the Research Centre for Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) from May 1st to June 28th, and he will teach the Curious Games Studio summer course in the Computation Arts program.
Pippin Barr is a well-known and extremely prolific experimental game designer, Dr. Barr’s minimalist games have challenged the conventions and prevailing ideologies of game designers while provoking new insights and possibilities for what games might be and how they might be played. For many game designers, Barr’s games stand as important experiments and interventions in the medium.
Barr is currently affiliated with the Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and he has taught courses in experimental interaction and programming for game designers at ITU Copenhagen. Barr’s games have been featured in many online forums including Gamasutra, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Buzzfeed, The Verge, Killscreen, and Edge and he has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Further details can be found at www.pippinbarr.com.
Please contact Jason Edward Lewis, Director of Computation Arts, for more information: jason.lewis@concordia.ca.
