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Join the Canada Science and Technology Museum and the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) lab for an evening of thought-provoking discussions about representation in video games.

Invited speakers from academia and the gaming industry will explore gender, culture, and race in video games, and some interesting movements working to improve representation. The session will end with light refreshments, networking opportunities, and game testing.

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Date and Time

Wed, 12 April 2017

6:30 PM – 9:30 PM SST

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Location

Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex EV Building – Concordia University

1515 rue Sainte-Catherine O

EV 1.605

Montreal, QC H3G 2W1

Canada

Speakers*

Only Human: Why Games Need to Stop the Othering of POC as Exotic

Tanya DePass, Founder of I Need Diverse Games

Dismantling Games Culture with Tea Parties

Rebecca Cohen-Palacios, Co-Founder of Pixelles Montreal

Feminist Resistance in Video Games: The Case of Alt Games (in French)

Pascale Thériault, Ph.D student at Université de Montréal’s Art History and Film Studies department, Co-Founder of Groupe Féministe Vidéoludique

Representation Runs Code-Deep

Rilla Khaled, Associate Professor, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University

*Presentations are in English or French with bilingual slides. The Q+A session will be bilingual.

Let’s Talk Gaming! is dedicated to providing a harassment-free event experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, race, or religion. You can also refer to TAG lab’s Safe Space Policy.

 

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Tanya DePass is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, which is dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. I Need Diverse Games serves the community by supporting marginalized developers attend the Game Developer Conference by participating in the GDC Scholarship program, helps assist attendance at other industry events, and is seeking partnership with organizations and initiatives. Tanya is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming, #INeedDiverseGames spawn point, and wants to make it better and more inclusive for everyone. She founded and was the EIC of Fresh Out of Tokens podcast where games culture was discussed and viewed through a lense of feminism, intersectionality and diversity. Now she’s a co-host on Spawn on Me Podcast. Along with all of that, she’s the Programming Coordinator for OrcaCon, she often speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality & other topics at multiple conventions throughout the year. Her writing about games and games critique appears in Uncanny Magazine, Polygon, Wiscon Chronicles, Vice Gaming, Paste Games, Mic, and other publications.