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John Sharp - Michelangelo couldn't have designed Halo: Art History for Game Devs Friday Oct 23rd

Submitted by Brian Robbins on Wed, 2009/10/21 - 18:52

Our next meeting will be held this Friday October 23rd at 7:30 pm.

We have a special guest this month with John Sharp, from the Savannah College of Art and Design here to give his GDC talk "Michelangelo couldn't have designed Halo: Art History for Game Devs"

The meeting will be held at the CU Building 14th & Larimer on the 4th floor room 470.

John Sharp is a game designer, art historian and educator with over 20 years experience. John's design work is focused on Twitter and social platform games, artgames and non-digital games. His current research is focused on game design curriculum for after-school programs, the history of play and the early history of computer and video games.
John is a professor in the Interactive Design & Game Development department and the Art History department at the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta. He also is a member of Local No. 12, a social network game collaboration; a member of The Leisure Society, an artgame collective; and a partner in Supercosm, a digital media consultancy. John’s work has been recognized by ID Magazine, the Art Director's Club and the Webby Awards.

“Michelangelo couldn’t have designed Halo: Art History for Game Devs” is the fun, informative art history class that we all wanted but never had. John Sharp, an art historian and game designer, will parallel the histories of art and games over the last 500 years. The talk will provide game developers tangible arguments to make clear the artistic power of games. It will answer essential questions to give game developers an informed historical perspective on the changing roles and statuses of art and design, and how games fit into it all.
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