<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I so much want to participate to this discussion to give you some of the first insights from my art and games world tour in the global south I started last June, focusing on female, queer, feminist and decolonial practices in Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, India, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria and Ghana...</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">But I actually got stuck in Ghana while borders started to get closed and succeeded to pass by the road to Togo where I am now...</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Would love to share some of the beautiful and meaningful indie games I encountered during this journey, but it is hard to focus on anything else that making the right choice... staying in Togo or getting back to Europe?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Anyway, here are few links to the articles I wrote on the indie game scene in <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2019/07/8403/">Korea</a>, <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2019/08/tour-du-monde-du-jeu-video-disabelle-arvers-seconde-escale-a-taiwan-immersion/">Taiwan</a>, <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2019/10/tour-du-monde-du-jeu-video-en-indonesie-par-isabelle-arvers-pour-immersion/">Indonesia</a> and <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2019/12/tour-du-monde-du-jeu-video-en-thailande-par-isabelle-arvers-pour-immersion/">Thailand</a>. They were initially written in French for the critical game review Immersion la Revue and then translated into english..</div><div><br></div><div>Here is also <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2019/07/conversation-with-audrey-tang-taiwanese-digital-minister/">my</a><a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2019/07/conversation-with-audrey-tang-taiwanese-digital-minister/"> conversation with Audrey Tang</a>, Minister of Digital in Taiwan on the promotion of independent games in the education system.</div><div><br></div><div>A gender and identity machinima workshop held at the <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2019/11/gender-and-identity-machinima-workshop-at-the-red-comunitaria-trans/">Red Comunotaria Trans de Bogota</a></div><div><br></div><div>The VR and Game Art exhibition <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2019/11/inter-species-imaginaries-art-games-world-tour-exhibit-at-overkill-2019/">Interspecies imaginaries</a> that I curated for the Festival Overkill in Enschede NL and finally the exhibition <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2019/11/tecnofeminismo-exposicion-disenada-por-isabelle-arvers/">Tecnofeminismo</a> for a more fluid and less binary relationship to technologies that I curated in Bogota at the French Alliance at part of this ongoing art and games world tour...</div><div><br></div><div>Wishing the best to all of you,</div><div><br></div><div>Isabelle Arvers.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif" target="_blank"><img alt="http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif" src="http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif"></a><br>Isabelle Arvers<br>Curator, art critic and artist<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com" target="_blank">http://www.isabellearvers.com</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">ART GAMES WORLD TOUR</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/category/art-and-games-world-tour/" target="_blank">http://www.isabellearvers.com/category/art-and-games-world-tour/</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ArtGamesWorldTour" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ArtGamesWorldTour</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Director of Kareron for art & games lovers!<a href="http://www.kareron.com/" target="_blank"> www.kareron.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Machinima workshops: <a href="http://youtube.com/zabarvers" target="_blank">youtube.com/zabarvers</a><br>Artworks: <a href="https://vimeo.com/isabellearvers" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/isabellearvers</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Pleade Trainer: solution for digital heritage valorisation </div><div><a href="https://pleade.com/?locale=en" target="_blank">https://pleade.com/?locale=en</a></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Twitter: @zabarvers</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://instagram.com/zabarvers" target="_blank">instagram.com/zabarvers</a></div>Skype ID: iarvers</div><div dir="ltr">Wattsap: +33 661 998 386<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 24 mars 2020 à 19:01, Stirling Newberry <<a href="mailto:stirling.newberry@gmail.com">stirling.newberry@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<div dir="ltr">This is what being a writer is like, write, refine, revise. The real world has people who do but it has people who document. I, too, miss the days of yesteryear. But "Americans look forward with nostalgia." Now back to Akutagawa.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 5:16 PM Chang, Edmond <<a href="mailto:change@ohio.edu" target="_blank">change@ohio.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
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Since Tara Fickle is next week (and their great book <i>The Race Card)</i>, I also think it is useful to point to some other great feminist gaming, queer gaming, and games of color scholarship (just a scattering):</div>
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Kishonna L. Gray: <a href="https://gws.uic.edu/profiles/gray-kishonna/" id="gmail-m_-6556703245575351067gmail-m_-2506496588694485910LPNoLP943111" target="_blank">
https://gws.uic.edu/profiles/gray-kishonna/</a> particularly <i>Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live</i> (Routledge 2014
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https://www.routledge.com/Race-Gender-and-Deviance-in-Xbox-Live-Theoretical-Perspectives-from/Gray/p/book/9780323296496</a>) and the recent
<i>Woke Gaming</i> co-edited with David J. Leonard (UW Press 2018 <a href="https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295744179/woke-gaming/" id="gmail-m_-6556703245575351067gmail-m_-2506496588694485910LPNoLP142381" target="_blank">
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295744179/woke-gaming/</a>) <br>
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TreaAndrea Russworm: <a href="https://www.umass.edu/english/member/treaandrea-russworm" id="gmail-m_-6556703245575351067gmail-m_-2506496588694485910LPNoLP970870" target="_blank">
https://www.umass.edu/english/member/treaandrea-russworm</a> (who coedited <i>Gaming Representation</i> with Jennifer Malkowski:
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http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=808575</a>)<br>
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Whitney Pow: <a href="https://www.whitneypow.com/" id="gmail-m_-6556703245575351067gmail-m_-2506496588694485910LPNoLP516383" target="_blank">https://www.whitneypow.com/</a> (really love their essay on
<i>Curtain</i>:<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> “Reaching Toward Home: Software Interface as Queer Orientation in the Video Game
<i>Curtain</i>,”</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Velvet Light Trap</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> 81, no. 1 (Spring
2018): 43–56. </span><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/686903" id="gmail-m_-6556703245575351067gmail-m_-2506496588694485910LPNoLP721652" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">https://muse.jhu.edu/article/686903</span></a>)</div>
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Elizabeth LaPensee: <a href="http://www.elizabethlapensee.com/" target="_blank">http://www.elizabethlapensee.com/</a> (great Indigenous scholar, artist, maker, who recently released <i><span>When Rivers Were Trails</span></i> (2019): <a href="https://indianlandtenure.itch.io/when-rivers-were-trails" target="_blank">https://indianlandtenure.itch.io/when-rivers-were-trails</a>) </div>
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Christopher Patterson, who has a new book out <i>Open World Empire</i>: <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479802043/open-world-empire/" id="gmail-m_-6556703245575351067gmail-m_-2506496588694485910LPNoLP810194" target="_blank">
https://nyupress.org/9781479802043/open-world-empire/</a><br>
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Shira Chess: <a href="https://grady.uga.edu/faculty/shira-chess/" id="gmail-m_-6556703245575351067gmail-m_-2506496588694485910LPNoLP984611" target="_blank">
https://grady.uga.edu/faculty/shira-chess/</a> (<i>Ready Player Two</i>: <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/ready-player-two" id="gmail-m_-6556703245575351067gmail-m_-2506496588694485910LPNoLP184053" target="_blank">https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/ready-player-two</a>)
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Megan Condis: <a href="https://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/faculty/faculty/mcondis.php" id="gmail-m_-6556703245575351067gmail-m_-2506496588694485910LPNoLP368349" target="_blank">
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/faculty/faculty/mcondis.php</a> (Gaming Masculinity:
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https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609385651/gaming-masculinity</a>)<br>
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There are a lot of great indie games rolling out every year (I can barely keep up with them, many of which hardly get any press beyond their immediate circles). Since we all have COVID on our minds, here's a recent game from Chinese American designer Mike
Ren: <i>Novel Containment</i>: <a href="https://mikeyren.itch.io/containment" id="gmail-m_-6556703245575351067gmail-m_-2506496588694485910LPNoLP927207" target="_blank">
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Sorry this is mostly pointing to resources and things to check out! There are many more. My brain is not quite in the composing space. I am definitely interested in the growing attention (and deepening response to anti-feminist, anti-queer, anti-SJW backlashes
of the recent years, particularly in gamedom and fandom and nerddom), and I hope to continue to add to those conversations and front lines. One day my book will be out, too!
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Best,<br>
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