Christian Roth (GE/NL) is a media psychologist focusing on digital interactive experiences. He is a researcher and educator in the field of interactive narrative and meaningful game design at the University of the Arts Utrecht. A big believer in embracing different disciplines and expressions of creativity, in 2011 he co-founded the GameCamp Berlin, an annual event bringing together researchers and practitioners from all walks of life. Christian conducts workshops and consultations on transformative user experience design and the evaluation of interactive narratives, games, and virtual realities.
www.spieleforschung.de |
Alessandro Giovanucci (IT) is a musicologist, lecturer and game designer. Active on the LARP games scene since 1992, he is a co-founder of Chaos League team. His practice focuses on creating transformative experiences with a deep emotional content. He wrote some of the most popular LARP games in the last years (Sahara Expedition, Bunker 101, Black Friday) and co-wrote the Southern Way – New Italian LARP manifesto. Alessandro wrote several essays on LARP and he’s regularly invited to hold talks, workshops and lectures.
www.chaosleague.org |
Sem Janssen (NL) is a writer, game designer and actor who has worked on multiple real life games. Prison Escape, a three hour long prison based universe, is the biggest production he has co-created. Tinkering on a universe that is in permanent flux, his work takes place on the intersection of universe building, character development and game design. He has also acted in multiple real life games (Prison Escape, Tracing Thomas, Mobster Mayhem, De Stad) and loves to get down and dirty to build up locations.
www.prisonescape.nl |
Andrea Brunello (IT) is an independent researcher, playwright, director and actor, working at the boundary between theatre and science. Brunello is the founder and director of the Portland Theatre of Trento and of the Arditodesìo Company. In 2012 he founded, with University of Trento physics professor Stefano Oss, the Jet Propulsion Theatre, a project that brings theatre and science together, carried out in coordination with the Laboratory for the Communication of the Physical Sciences of the University of Trento. From 2020, the Arditodesìo Company is lead partner of the Creative Europe project CURIOUS (Culture as a Unique Resource to Inspire, Outreach & Understand Science).
www.jetpropulsiontheatre.org www.projectcurious.eu |
Dan Barnard & Rachel Briscoe (UK) are members of fanSHEN - London. They create transformative experiences which combine powerful narratives with the dynamic potential of data. Their recent piece The Justice Syndicate, in which the audience are a trial considering a difficult case, received numerous five star reviews, was selected for the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology and longlisted for the Lumen Prize .
Dan Barnard is a theatre director and Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University, where he leads the Digital Performance Research group. Rachel Briscoe is a producer and writer, with work performed at the Royal Court and Soho theatres. She also works as a creative consultant, helping organisations like the National Trust and Tyne and Wear Museums create more playful environments. www.fanshen.org.uk |
Matteo Uguzzoni (IT/US) is an architect and a game designer, his practice focus on creating transformative experience blending real life game and theater. He co-founded Urban Games Factory an Italian collective active in different form since 2009. He is also the host of “The Playcast” a podcast about immersive theater, real life games and everything in between. Matteo is currently teaching game design at Maryland Institut College of Art in Baltimore, USA.
www.theplaycast.co www.urbangames-factory.it |
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