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| Keynote Address | 6.30pm Friday 10 October 2003 |
Sydney University Auditorium | |
| Registration commences mid-August. |
Mary Flanagan
Hunter College + http://www.maryflanagan.com
is a digital artist and cybercultural critic. Her interactive projects have been exhibited internationally including the Central Fine Arts Gallery, Auckland's Moving Image Centre, Play Engines, Mapping Transitions, DataTerra02: All Star Data Mappers, and the Whitney Museum of American Art 2002 Biennial. Flanagan's essays on digital art, cyberculture and gaming have appeared in periodicals such as Art Journal, Wide Angle, Convergence, Culture Machine and her co-edited book Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture was published by MIT Press in 2002. Before her academic career, Flanagan was a producer of CDROM games and Web experiences, garnering international awards for her work. Eric Zimmerman
Gamelab + http://www.ericzimmerman.com
Eric Zimmerman just can't stop making games. After a childhood of roping friends and family into playtesting his game experiments, Eric has spent the last ten years in the game industry. Before founding gameLab with Peter Lee, Eric collaborated with Word.com on the underground online hit, SiSSYFiGHT2000 (www.sissyfight.com). Other titles include the PC CD-ROM games Gearheads (Philips Media, 1996) and The Robot Club (Southpeak Interactive, 1998). An unapologetic part-time academic, Eric has taught game design at MIT, NYU, Parsons School of Design, and School of Visual Arts. In the Fall of 2003, MIT Press and Peter Lang Press will each publish a book by Eric about game design and game culture. Eric has exhibited non-computer game projects at galleries and museums in the US and abroad. 
