Games People Play

1/19/05 to 2/23/05

  • She Puppet|February 9|

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  • From Crackers to Culture: Video Games and Contemporary Art Practice

    • Wednesday, February 23 7:30pm

    Illustrated Lecture by Rainey Straus. Rainey Straus's lecture will explore the growing cross-fertilization between contemporary media artists and the video games whose technology, imagery, and conceptual underpinnings they have appropriated. Straus will also present her own works, developed with Katherine Isbister, that utilize the Sims Game platform.

  • Westworld

    • Wednesday, February 16 7:30pm

    Michael Crichton's 1973 sci-fi anticipated the emergence of video games: "A wonderfully enjoyable fantasy about a futuristic holiday resort offering robot worlds of exotic sex, romance or violence....Until, that is, the robots begin to malfunction-or rebel. Great stuff."-Time Out

  • Parallel Universum, Part I

    • Wednesday, February 9 7:30pm

    Tonight's program looks at video artists who pursued a path parallel to the development of video games, whether it was the navigation of deeper space, the haunted imagery, or the quest for engagement. Works by Peggy Ahwesh, Max Almy, David Larcher, Kristin Lucas, Greg Niemeyer, and John Sanborn.

  • Games

    • Wednesday, February 2 7:30pm

    Curtis Harrington in Person. Simone Signoret is très diabolique in Harrington's atmospheric thriller about people who amuse themselves by playing outlandish games that verge on the vicious. Then the games go Grand Guignol.

  • G4M3RS: Clans, Mods, and a Cultural Revolution

    • Wednesday, January 26 7:30pm

    Director Kiyash Monsef and Clan Members in Person. G4M3RS follows members of two Bay Area clans (gaming collectives)-Second 2 None and The Speakeasy Offensive-as they rise through the ranks of competitive gaming. The path to the Cyberathlete Championship is strewn with more obstacles than Counter–Strike's own terrorist scenarios.

  • The Most Dangerous Game

    • Wednesday, January 19 7:30pm

    A high-caliber thriller by the directors of King Kong, based on Richard Connell's story of a big game hunter who goes after human quarry on his private island. "A tale of Sadean camp."-Steve Seid. With Pudovkin short Chess Fever. Greg Goodman on Piano.