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A reminder note of our upcoming festival:
SCREENPLAY WEEKEND 2004
Play With Your Mind
February 28-29, 2004, at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, UK
The unique annual event where Games Makers, Thinkers and Players get
together to celebrate and explore
the impact of computer games on our lives and culture.
Organised in collaboration with the Nottingham Trent University Digital
Research Unit, Screenplay is
Broadway Cinema's annual celebration of computer games, exploring
interactive and digital technology and
its impact on culture today. It brings together games players, makers,
thinkers and artists in a unique
environment where games novices and fans alike can experience a mix of
old and new, fun and discussion in
the context of cinema and media.
Having been launched in 2000, next year's festival marks the fourth
event in a series and features new
developments in content, profile and interest.
Screenplay Weekend: Edition 4 is packed with interest for anyone who
plays games or is curious about what
they are all about.
* New for this year we are launching Regain The Game -
a new competition looking for creative proposals to rethink the
video game. Flyers have gone out
worldwide searching for the kind of wild ideas that go way beyond a
tweak to the old favourites.
Rules... there are no rules.
The finalists' games will be available to play for one week
leading up to the festival, at
Broadway Cinema in Nottingham and on the web. The competition will be
judged through live debate between
industry figures, designers, artists and fans at the Screenplay
Weekend. http://www.broadway.org.uk
* The renowned Australian Artist Stelarc will be
presenting his new work "Prosthetic Head"
"The head is an automated, animated, reasonably informed and somewhat
intelligent artificial head that
speaks to the person who questions it - an embodied conversational agent
with real time lip-synching and
facial expressions. It has a database on a server in Philadelphia."
Stelarc hopes to situate the head outside Broadway
Cinema as a giant street projection.
As well as engaging us in conversation, the head will sing for us in a
special performance.
http://www.acmi.net.au/transfigure/
* The Old Skool. We will be conducting a web-streamed
Desert Island Games session on the
big screen. Live at home with the legendary Scott Adams,
http://www.msadams.com/new/index.htm, creator of
adventure games for PCs and a major mover in the videogames industry.
Live streamed in collaboration with
Moon Radio webTV. http://www.moonradio.co.uk
* Live performers Reactor present GHAOS-ZX - an
exploration of virtual reality through the
medium of the egg box. From Nottingham's boundary-blurring collective.
http://www.reactorweb.com/
* E-Games Tournament - climactic finale of city-wide teen
knockout on the giant screen.
http://www.egames2003.co.uk
* The first opportunity to have a look at the massive new
Online Game Warhammer and
interrogate its Nottingham-based Climax programmers,
http://www.climax.co.uk/
* Interactive EyeToy - trials of new performance pieces
with artists Sophia Lycouris,
http://davinci.ntu.ac.uk/rws/index.htm and Johannes Birringer,
http://davinci.ntu.ac.uk/rws/index.htm,
from the Nottingham Trent School of Art and Design Digital Research
Unit.
* Games Fair - Games Design Course Marketplace and
Recruitment Fair where makers and
students and teachers can mingle, learn and develop their career
directions.
* Replay - demos of cutting-edge research into new
technology, featuring:
- The Mixed Reality Laboratory, famous for
their live city-wide gaming
projects with renowned performance group Blast Theory,
http://www.mrl.nott.ac.uk
- - "Circuits" - Seth Giddings presents
his video essay about children,
play and computer games
- Arts and Technology Partnerships in
Loughborough create new 3D worlds
with schoolchildren, http://www.arts-technology.org
- Rachel Jacobs updates us on the haunting
of the Internet,
http://www.moonradio.co.uk
- The sharpest Games Quiz around from the
boffins at Suppose Ltd.,
htttp://www.suppose.co.uk
* The Old Skool: "Lillian Schwartz: A Beautiful Virus
Inside The Machine", introduced by
Gregory Kurcewicz . Computer Film programme of pioneering works from the
artist based at the Bell
Laboratories, 1970-1980. http://www.lumen.net
* The Old Skool: "My Favourite Game", a selection of retro
games for you to play on the
original consoles, chosen and commented on by celebrities and industry
figures such as Toby Gard and
Lemmy from Motorhead
* The Old Skool: Classic Arcade machines for you to play,
including Asteroids and Defender,
from retro specialists Arcade Warehouse, http://www.arcadewarehouse.com/
* Big screen Pong & A Pint extravaganza with Vastik Root
and Bury and Disinter, presenting
a new interactive music experience
* The 8 Bit Lounge - A fully programmed Sunday night of 8
BIT DISCO MIXING, web works and
live performance, with a guest appearance from the now-global House
Gymnastics team, winners of the Net
Art competition on Playstation 2's online Third Place Gallery
http://www.housegymnastics.com
Sideshows, discussions and presentations are being added all the time -
visit the website to see who else
is coming and what they will be doing...
Frank Abbott, lecturer at Nottingham Trent, is co-organiser of the
festival and explains, "The mix of
people at Screenplay is unique. When they get together it stimulates
some really exciting new ideas and
reminds you how much games are all about interaction."
Leading games industry publication Edge Magazine commented in their
review of this year's (2003)
Screenplay event:
"Certainly it (Screenplay) is indicative of a broader trend which has
seen conferences springing up to
cater for discussion about videogames in a context that's free from
commercial constraints... Which can
only be a good thing, judging by an audience that ranged from
experimental research programmes in
interactive media, and academic and journalistic critics, to artists and
gamers."
ENDS:-
If you want to know more about Screenplay at Broadway, and its programme
next year, previous events, to
get involved/contribute ideas, or if you are interested in attending,
please contact:
Rasheeqa Ahmad at Broadway on + 00 44 (0)115 952 6600 /
rasheeqa@broadway.org.uk
Frank Abbott at Nottingham Trent on + 00 44 (0)115 848 2949 /
frank.abbott@ntu.ac.uk
See Broadway's website at www.broadway.org.uk for more information
Johannes Birringer
Senior Research Fellow
School of Art and Design
The Nottingham Trent University
Victoria Studios
Shakespeare Street
Nottingham NG1 4FQ
England
tel. +44 (0) 115 848 2282
http://art.ntu.ac.uk/performance_research
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