[-empyre-] welcome "game to game"

["Melinda Rackham" <melinda@subtle.net>]

-empyre- is pleased to welcome this week's facilitator, games mistress Helen
Stuckey, who will introduce a topic she is passionate about - "game to
game". This week will focus on the art and theory of games and game
technologies and how single and multi-user games, game mods and machinima
fit into a gallery context,  with guest artists Anita Johnston, Escape from
Woomera, Troy Innocent, Rebecca Cannon, and theorist Dr Melanie Swalwell.

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Rebecca Cannon is an Australian media artist, curator and producer. She
currently curates Selectparks.net, an online archive of artistic computer
game modification, and in 2002 curated the exhibition Trigger:Game Art,
which comprised an international selection of artworks influenced by
computer games. Rebecca has written extensively on Art Modding, and
presented papers on the topic at  international conferences.
http://www.selectparks.net

The Escape from Woomera Project Team comprises Ian Malcolm, Kate Wild,
Julian Oliver, Kipper, Andrea Blundell, Justin Halliday, David Jewsbury,
Stephen Honegger, Programmer X, Programmer Y, Monique J and friends. The
team has been drawn from the diverse fields of commercial game development,
new media art and investigative journalism.
http://www.escapefromwommera.org

Troy Innocent  is an artist and academic working at the intersection of
artificial life, computational semiotics and digital games. His recent work,
lifeSigns has evolved from a series of artificial worlds populated by 'media
creatures' that explore the 'language of computers'.
http://www.acmi.net.au/lifeSigns/

Anita Johnston  is a multidisciplinary new media designer who develops
content for video games, installations, screens and print. Her work seeks to
recontextualise the aesthetics and fiction of fairytales through remixing
different media and immersing them into virtual and contemporary pop culture
nightmares. She has received a number of arts awards that have taken her to
Europe and to North America, where she is developing spine-tingling
interactive media. http://www.sikofshadows.com

Melanie Swalwell is a researcher and lecturer in media studies, at Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand.  She is fascinated by the
experimentation of modders and media artists, and with the issues that their
creations raise.