Videogames and Art: Second Edition

About

Grethe Mitchell is a writer/researcher and Reader in Digital and New Media at the University of Lincoln UK. She has a long standing interest in videogames and the relationship of these to other cultural artefacts and outputs. She has collaborated with Andy Clarke on numerous papers and presentations on videogames and videogame art including public lectures at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and at La Villette Numérique: Biennale of Digital Art in Paris. Her continuing research involvement in this area included recently leading the development of an innovative movement-based computer game for children using the Kinect as part of a two-year AHRC grant-funded project on childrens games and play cultures and subsequently leading a further grant-funded project looking at the various ways in which movement is captured analysed documented and re-presented within the Arts and Humanities. Andy Clarke is a writer and unaffiliated researcher. He has collaborated on numerous papers on video games and video game art as well as on other topics. He is an authority on video game art and has been invited to speak on this subject at the Bienniale of Digital Art at La Villette in Paris ('La Villette Numerique' 2002) and at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2006). He maintains a wide range of academic interests and is Co-Founder of COSIGN using this unique series of cross-disciplinary conferences to establish and develop the field of computational semiotics. In the art thread of these conferences he has exhibited numerous examples of video game art including those by Brody Condon and others.