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TONIGHT AT 7-8:30PM
Public presentation of Gina Hara’s Ada X Residency Project
Residency at Ada X + Algora Lab: October, 19th to December, 13th 2021.
The project was also supported by TAG and the TAG Minecraft Bloc research group.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, social AIs have been increasingly stepping up to offer companionship and mental-health help online. In her residency, Gina Hara set out to draw a parallel between MC singleplayer gameplay and life during lockdown, speculating …

Another one hot off the presses! This week, we have an interview with Eva Toker for you all.
Eva is the Chief Creative Officer at Rogue Harbour Game Studio. She has over a decade of experience in the entertainment industry and is a lifelong enthusiast for video games, art, and storytelling. Starting out as a concept artist, she has since then shipped over a dozen kickass game titles and is now leading her studio in turning …

This week, we have someone from to the Concordia University community! It’s Dr. Pippin Barr!
As many of you probably know, Pippin Barr is a videogame maker, educator, and critic who lives and works in Montréal. He is an Assistant Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University and the Associate Director of the Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Research Centre. Pippin is a prolific maker of videogames, producing work addressing everything from airplane safety instructions, to …

Welcome back for another episode! This week, we have our chat with Montreal-based game maker narF!
narF is a game designer by day and a podcaster by night. Interested in the decentralized web, planning the demise of the internet giants and making weird sounds with virtual synths on a Raspberry Pi.
As always, available for you to listen at the ConnectingToGame website, on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.