GAMES & ACTIVISM
MARY FLANAGAN
HANDS ON WORKSHOP on GAMES & ACTIVISM @ UCLA GAME LAB
12-2pm UCLA Broad Art Center | Game Lab | 3rd Floor
In conjunction with her exhibition at the Art | Sci CNSI Gallery during the month of March, Mary Flanagan joins Eddo Stern and the UCLA Game Lab to give a hands on workshop on games and activism.
Mary Flanagan’s work plays with the anxious and profound relationship between technological systems and human experience, exploring how our data, rule systems, and context of play represent human fears and desires. Her artwork ranges from game-based installations to computer viruses, embodied interfaces to interactive texts; these works have been exhibited internationally at venues including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim, Tate Britain, Postmasters, Steirischer Herbst, Ars Electronica, Artist’s Space, LABoral, the Telfair Museum, ZKM Medienmuseum, Siggraph, Ars Electronica, and museums in New Zealand, South Korea and Australia.
Flanagan’s approach to games and technological systems occupy both onscreen space as well as physical spaces and actions, moving away from the screen to push reflection regarding familiar relationships to play, politics, and the personal. Flanagan teaches at Dartmouth College.