Critical Distance: Keywords in Play
Leisure:Video Games
This episode we speak with Mal Abbas, an independent game designer, artist and producer working on experimental and meaningful games. Malath established Scotland's first game collective and co-working space Biome Collective, a diverse, inclusive melting pot of technology, art and culture for people who want to create, collaborate and explore games, digital art and technology.
Work includes Killbox, an online game and interactive installation that critically explores the nature of drone warfare, its complexities and consequences, and Garden, a beautiful music based exploration interactive experience set in space.
“Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. As a joint venture, “Keywords in Play” expands Critical Distance’s commitment to innovative writing and research about games while using a conversational style to bring new and diverse scholarship to a wider audience.
Our goal is to highlight the work of graduate students, early career researchers and scholars from under-represented groups, backgrounds and regions. The primary inspiration comes from sociologist and critic Raymond Williams. In the Preface to his book Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society, Williams envisaged not a static dictionary but an interactive document, encouraging readers to populate blank pages with their own keywords, notes and amendments. “Keywords in Play” follows Williams in affirming that “The significance is in the selection”, and works towards diversifying the critical terms with which we describe games and game culture.
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Production Team: Darshana Jayemanne, Zoyander Street, Emilie Reed.
Audio Direction and Engineering: Damian Stewart
Double Bass: Aaron Stewart
Keywords in Play Episode 31 - Brendan Keogh
Keywords in Play Episode 30 - Xavier Ho
Keywords in Play Episode 29 - Stephanie Harkin
Keywords in Play Episode 28 - Felania Liu
Keywords in Play Episode 27 - Tingting Liu
Keywords in Play Episode 26 - Gejun Huang
Keywords in Play Episode 25: Florence Smith-Nicholls
Keywords in Play Episode 24: Mahli-Ann Butt, Amanda Cote, Emil Lunedal Hammar and Cody Mejeur
Keywords in Play Ep. 23: Everest Pipkin
Keywords in Play Ep. 22: Alesha Serada
Keywords in Play Ep. 21: Gregory Whistance-Smith
Keywords in Play Episode 20 - Jaroslav Švelch
Keywords in Play Episode 19 - Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans - Paratexts
Keywords in Play Episode 18 - Esther Wright on Rockstar and History
Keywords in Play Episode 17 - April Tyack on Ordinary Player Experience
Keywords in Play Episode 16 - Felan Parker on Cutural Intermediaries
Keywords in Play Episode 15 - Leon Xiao
Keywords in Play Episode 14 - Adrienne Shaw
Episode 13 - Alenda Y. Chang
Keywords in Play Episode 12 - Aaron Trammell
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