The Utopian Studies Seminar is hosting a discussion of Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia (2009), which offers a chilling vision of a future neo-liberal world order. Possible Worlds, Alternative Futures will discuss the implications of Towfik’s work for utopian and ludic studies. The projects is co-sponsored by the CUNY Games Network.
Tuesday, December 10th at 4:15 pm, CUNY Graduate Center, Room 6417
Dr. Sarah-Kate Gillespie and Dr. Tom Zlabinger, Assistant Professors of Performing and Fine Arts at York College, have created a course where students learn about games, art, music, culture, and media from a critical perspective. The course is team taught and offered both through Music and Fine Arts to all students regardless of their major.
For more info: sgillespie@york.cuny.edu or tzlabinger@york.cuny.edu
Reposted from gamecenter.NYU.edu
Bernie DeKoven is a game designer, a theorist of play, and a professional purveyor of fun.
He was a seminal figure in the New Games Movement of the 1970s, a group that created large-scale public play events. His book The Well-Played Game, republished this year by MIT Press, is a landmark work that argues for a radical re-conception of how people engage meaningfully through play. Many of the most important trends in games today, from indie games and art games to game jams and big games, have roots in Bernie’s influential ideas.
Join us on Thursday evening as Bernie talks about his life making play happen, in dialog with NYU Game Center Director Frank Lantz. Two days later, Bernie will lead a New Games Workshop – an unforgettable outdoor afternoon of play.
Lecture Series: Bernie DeKoven
Pfizer Auditorium
5 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201
October 10, 7:00pm
New Games Workshop
Meet at 2 Metrotech Center and we will go to a nearby park.
October 12, 12:30pm
Both events are free and open to the public.
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