Join us for an interesting and refreshing discussion on diversity in the playable media!
Race, gender, aging are some of the topics still rare in videogames. How does the gaming industry seize on diverse themes, which are part of our life long reality? Anf th what extent are games able to influence human perception, thinking and acting? The Goethe-Institut San Francisco is thrilled to host experts from various fields discussing those topics, offering a deeper and more vivid insight on a very heterogenous debate.
Guests:
- Josef Wiesner (Austrian videogame developer, organiser and curator of the Austrian gamning event "zamSpielen")
- Bonnie Ruberg (Assistant Professor of Informatics at UC Irvine, lead organizer for the annual Queerness and Games Conference)
- Philip Jones (filmmaker "Gaming In Color" (2015))
- Lasse Scherffig (Assistant Professor Art and Technology, San Francisco Art Institute)
- Ian Pollock (Assistant Professor of Art, Director of the Graduate Multimedia Program at the California State University) [tbc]
- Moderator: Greg Niemeier (Associate Professor in Digital Media in Art Practice, UC Berkeley; former head Berkeley Center for New Media)
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Race, gender, aging are some of the topics still rare in videogames. How does the gaming industry seize on diverse themes, which are part of our life long reality? Anf th what extent are games able to influence human perception, thinking and acting? The Goethe-Institut San Francisco is thrilled to host experts from various fields discussing those topics, offering a deeper and more vivid insight on a very heterogenous debate.
Guests:
- Josef Wiesner (Austrian videogame developer, organiser and curator of the Austrian gamning event "zamSpielen")
- Bonnie Ruberg (Assistant Professor of Informatics at UC Irvine, lead organizer for the annual Queerness and Games Conference)
- Philip Jones (filmmaker "Gaming In Color" (2015))
- Lasse Scherffig (Assistant Professor Art and Technology, San Francisco Art Institute)
- Ian Pollock (Assistant Professor of Art, Director of the Graduate Multimedia Program at the California State University) [tbc]
- Moderator: Greg Niemeier (Associate Professor in Digital Media in Art Practice, UC Berkeley; former head Berkeley Center for New Media)
Join us for an interesting and refreshing discussion on diversity in the playable media!
Race, gender, aging are some of the topics still rare in videogames. How does the gaming industry seize on diverse themes, which are part of our life long reality? Anf th what extent are games able to influence human perception, thinking and acting? The Goethe-Institut San Francisco is thrilled to host experts from various fields discussing those topics, offering a deeper and more vivid insight on a very heterogenous debate.
Guests:
- Josef Wiesner (Austrian videogame developer, organiser and curator of the Austrian gamning event "zamSpielen")
- Bonnie Ruberg (Assistant Professor of Informatics at UC Irvine, lead organizer for the annual Queerness and Games Conference)
- Philip Jones (filmmaker "Gaming In Color" (2015))
- Lasse Scherffig (Assistant Professor Art and Technology, San Francisco Art Institute)
- Ian Pollock (Assistant Professor of Art, Director of the Graduate Multimedia Program at the California State University) [tbc]
- Moderator: Greg Niemeier (Associate Professor in Digital Media in Art Practice, UC Berkeley; former head Berkeley Center for New Media)
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Race, gender, aging are some of the topics still rare in videogames. How does the gaming industry seize on diverse themes, which are part of our life long reality? Anf th what extent are games able to influence human perception, thinking and acting? The Goethe-Institut San Francisco is thrilled to host experts from various fields discussing those topics, offering a deeper and more vivid insight on a very heterogenous debate.
Guests:
- Josef Wiesner (Austrian videogame developer, organiser and curator of the Austrian gamning event "zamSpielen")
- Bonnie Ruberg (Assistant Professor of Informatics at UC Irvine, lead organizer for the annual Queerness and Games Conference)
- Philip Jones (filmmaker "Gaming In Color" (2015))
- Lasse Scherffig (Assistant Professor Art and Technology, San Francisco Art Institute)
- Ian Pollock (Assistant Professor of Art, Director of the Graduate Multimedia Program at the California State University) [tbc]
- Moderator: Greg Niemeier (Associate Professor in Digital Media in Art Practice, UC Berkeley; former head Berkeley Center for New Media)
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530 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
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