Zina sends this item in: a very interesting line-up this fall at Sydney University. I think I may be somewhere in Asia, and perhaps Australia won't be too far away to visit!

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dLux media arts
In association with University of Sydney present
Future Screen 2003:

Plaything.
Choose Your Weapons!
Digital Games Symposium: October 10,11,12, 2003
Location: Sydney University, Eastern Ave Auditorium

Plaything is a major international symposium focusing on current and future trends in the field of digital games, featuring key Australian and International game designers theorists and artists. Plaything will bring together people that develop, analyse and play digital games, and will provide a forum for discussion, play and critical discourse. Plaything is curated by Josephine Starrs.

International Speakers Include:
Eric Zimmerman
Co-Founder and CEO of Gamelab, New York. Zimmerman has lectured in game design at MIT, NYU, and Parsons School of Design.

Mary Flanagan
US digital artist and cybercultural critic. Flanagan's co-edited book, Reload: rethinking Women and Cyberculture was published by MIT Press in 2002.

Feng Mengbo
Renowned Beijing artist whose work uses the the styles and structures of contemporary electronic games.

Eugenie Shinkle
Artist and Lecturer in photographic theory and criticism in the School of Media, Arts and Design at Westminster University, London, UK.

Registrations for Plaything Symposium commence in August 2003. Registration for 3 days: $50.00
Concession: $35.00
Please visit www.dlux.org.au for updates.
email: Vicky Clare

dLux media arts gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance received from the Australian Film Commission, New South Wales Film & Television Office, Australia Council for the Arts, New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Sydney College of the Arts. and the University of Sydney's School of English, Art History, Film and Media and the Arts Informatics Program.

dLux media arts: PO Box 306, Paddington, NSW, 2021. Phone: 02 9380 4255

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thanks, zina!