Presented at
The Eleventh HOPE (2016),
July 22, 2016, 3 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Game art duo "foci + loci" (<a href="https://xi.hope.net/speakers.html#Tamara Yadao">Tamara Yadao</a> and <a href="https://xi.hope.net/speakers.html#Chris Burke">Chris Burke</a> talk about hacking immersive video game spaces. Over the last six years, they have been using Little Big Planet to build and break custom game environments for live music performance. Joined by multidisciplinary technologist <a href="https://xi.hope.net/speakers.html#Jeremy Pesner">Jeremy Pesner</a>, they will demonstrate and take apart some of their stranger maps and virtual instruments like the Tiltofon, the Flotrillium, and the Anytime-inator, while discussing successes and failures arising from repurposing or pushing game level-building tools beyond intended uses. They will raise questions about hacking the "look and feel" of game spaces and how it relates to professional game development tools like Unity and the Unreal Engine versus off-the-shelf games like <em>Little Big Planet, Minecraft,</em> or <em>Portal.</em> They will also look at Machinima (using game engines to create cinema) as an early strategy of video game appropriation and its relationship to culture jamming and hard/soft hacking in the gaming community. Lastly, they will present a sneak peak of the upcoming musical-in-game-space, <em>Songs from the Robot Apocalypse,</em> featuring the Arachnobot, the flying Toasterbot, and a robot made from a classic Game Boy DMG-1.
Presenters:
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Tamara Yadao
Tamara Yadao, multimedia artist and performer, works with conceptual methods of sound-making, music-making, and video by repurposing new and antiquated forms of technology including gaming hardware and software, radios, and transmitters. She also writes chip music under the moniker Corset Lore and has a release on Philly chip music imprint 8static, while also appearing on compilations from 8bitpeoples and Pxl-Win. She is delighted to be curating and coordinating the live music concerts for The Eleventh HOPE.
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Jeremy Pesner
Jeremy Pesner is a multidisciplinary technologist, researcher, policy analyst, and gamer who holds a BS in computer science from Dickinson College and an MA in communication, culture, and technology from Georgetown University. He is fascinated by questions and implications of technology, media, and games across entertainment, education, and the blending of arts and science. He has worked for educational games company E-Line media and helped to run the Music and Gaming Education Symposium at the Music and Gaming Festival for the past six years, where he has spoken and demonstrated extensively on how to evaluate player experiences in video games. He is also passionate about other technology issues like broadband, technological innovation, and how technology can make a positive difference in lives throughout the world.
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Chris Burke
Chris Burke has been creating peculiar media centered around games and game culture for 15 years, including the award-winning machinima talk show This Spartan Life and multiple chip music releases for 8bitpeoples, Astralwerks, and other labels under the name glomag. "Songs From The Robot Apocalypse" is his most recent project, expected to hit the stage later in the year.
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