Upcoming & Recent Events
June 10-12, 2009: Games + Learning + Society. Myself and several graduate students from the Game Innovation lab will be presenting on our research into intergenerational play, along with Dixie Ching from our partners at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center.
June 2, 2009: Art Institute of Los Angeles. I'll be speaking here on game innovation and the significance of play.
May 27-29, 2009: Games for Change. I'll be speaking on a panel about documentary games at this conference in New York and also participating in the Games 101 workshop.
April 26-30, 2009: Foundations of Digital Games Conference. I'll be attending this conference/cruise, for which I am also one of the program committee members in game studies/game design.
April 23, 2009: Dartmouth College. I'll be speaking in Mary Flanagan's game design class at Dartmouth as part of their Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series and visiting Mary's Tiltfactor Lab .
March 23-27, 2009: Game Developers Conference 2009. I'll be giving a mind-blowingly fast Microtalk alongside Eric Zimmerman, Robin Hunicke, Frank Lantz, Jenova Chen, John Sharp, Clint Hocking and N'Gai Croal as part of Rich Lemarchand's One Hour, Ten Speakers, Unlimited Ideas panel. I will also be offering feedback during the Student IGF Post-Mortems and participating on a panel on women in games, Play Games to Work Smarter.
March 17-18, 2009: Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab. I'll be visiting the Gambit lab for several days to see more of what they've been working on and meet their research and development team.
March 13-17, 2009: SXSW Interactive. I'll be speaking on the panel Funologists Live & In Person: Guerrilla Game Research organized by Julie Ratner of Big Fish Games.
February 22, 2009: Hamilton College, NY. I'll be speaking at Hamilton's Forum for Images and Language in Motion on The Night Journey, Walden and other Game Innovation Lab projects.
January 22, 2009: Sundance Film Festival. I'll be speaking on a panel about "Created Worlds" moderated by Production Designer Alex McDowell.