We’re excited to announce the V&A’s first ever conference dedicated to the design and culture of videogames, an event that we feel provides a much needed new critical and cultural platform to discuss one of the most fascinating design fields of our time.
Parallel Worlds will be taking place on Friday 25 November 2016 and will bring together a highly eclectic line up of leading designers, artists and thinkers whose work explores the ways in which videogames reflect and augment our reality. Speakers confirmed so far include Meg Jayanth (80 Days), Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn of Tale of Tales (Cathedral in the Clouds), Laura Dilloway (Rigs: Mechanized Combat League), Keiichi Matsuda (Hyper-Reality), Simon Mann (Total War: Attila), Holly Gramazio (Matheson Marcault) and Pol Clarissou (Orchids to Dusk) with more to be announced in the coming weeks.
Full Speaker line up info is available at: http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/
Parallel Worlds: Designing Alternative Realities in Videogames
Friday, 25 November 2016
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Tickets: £35 (full price), £30 (concession), £15 (student)
Book Online: https://goo.gl/AR8ouS
This inaugural event will continue into the evening with a Parallel Worlds themed Friday Late where your reality will be further distorted with a host of arcades, workshops and demonstrations across the Museum.
Many thanks for your time and please help share this event with those you feel it may be of interest to.
Kristian Volsing
Research Curator, Videogames
Victoria and Albert Museum