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November 22, 2005
EMPAC presents Fair Game | Tues. 11/29 @ 7 PM | Troy, NY, USA
This is not an official IGDA event, but is something that should be of interest to the local game development community. RPI's EMPAC program is hosting a machinima show next Tuesday (November 29th, 7pm). For more information check out the website and read the following official announcement:
EMPAC presents "Fair Game"
The Art of Video Game Engines - Quake and Unreal Tournament on Monster Screens vs. Artists That Don't Shoot and Splatter DEMOS - LIVE PERFORMANCE - SHOW AND TELL + MORE
Troy, NY – Rensselaer’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
(EMPAC) presents “Fair Game” at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 29th, 2005.
Fair Game features artists who use video game engines to create work that spans the landscape of cinema, video gaming, hacker art, immersive installation and software development. Unlike the usual panel discussion format - the night will include demos, show and tell presentations, film screenings, and of course, game playing. Watch the video games being played on MASSIVE screens, and then see how artists manipulate the software engines to create their own work entirely by using the tools of these virtual worlds.
Artist Kurt Hentschlager, for example, will present Karma, an installation and performance rooted in moving image representations of gravity (or lack thereof). According to the artist, prior to the release of a recent Unreal Tournament game engine, there were few existing tools that he could use to experiment with gravity visually in such a flexible and open ended manner.
Fair Game artists include Kurt Hentschlager, Friedrich Kirschner, Paul Marino (Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences), the ILL Clan, and Workspace Unlimited. The event modules will be preceded by expert gamers from RPI's Games Research Lab playing the games that the presenting artists are using to make their work (Unreal Tournament and Quake 3) on oversized screens for the audience.
Admission to Fair Game is free and open to the public. Parking will be available around the Alumni House and in the North Lot. There will be signs to direct you to the event.
Additional information on “Fair Game” may be found on the EMPAC website, http://www.empac.rpi.edu.
Questions? Call the EMPAC Event Hotline: 518.276.3921
EVENT INFORMATION:
Event: FAIR GAME
Date: Tuesday November 29, 2005
Place: Rensselaer Campus, Troy, NY, in the Heffner Alumni Building
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Posted by IanStead at November 22, 2005 06:52 PM
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