mattie brice on How Do We Already Change the World through Play? (Virtual Event)

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Prof. mattie brice will present: on How Do We Already Change the World through Play?

since the turn of the 21st century, games, game design, and gamification gained wide attention as tools for social change work, introducing new participatory aesthetic frameworks to the social design field. however design and technology are facing a decolonial reckoning that challenges how computational and social technologies are used to perpetuate and reinforce power structures of western countries to the whole globe. once we shift our focus to play and the marginalized folks engaging with it as a survival practice, new alternative realities become possible for art and design activism.

mattie is an artist and designer working with contemporary social issues through play. She has been a culture worker within the games industry for over a decade as a critic, designer, activist, organizer, curator, and educator. Her creative work manifests as medium-agonistic games and play experiments, from the memoir game Mainichi, conceptual art like EAT, performance with empathy machine, and speculative experiences including The DAFRA Pairing Ceremony. mattie’s organizing work spans various scales, having co-organized the Queerness & Games Conference, IndieCade, and #LOSTLEVELS. She now teaches at the University of California: Santa Cruz' Performance, Play, & Design department and her current work focuses on play as activism, speculative methodologies, design bleed, and social relationships of power.

This event is also part of the 7th Season of Disrupting Disruptions: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. Our series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC, Digital Citizen Research, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), the DIGS Lab, Milieux, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, ReQEF, and more.

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