The BMO Lab Winter Keynote Lecture - Algorithmic Millennium: Creating Staged & Digital Games
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What does experimental performance have to do with video games? How do emerging media provide new landscapes for diasporic narratives? How can live and digital bodies perform and resist algorithmic control? The BMO Lab’s winter keynote will explore these questions and more with two of Canada’s most exciting young artists: Natalie Tin Yin Gan and Remy Siu, of the multimedia performance collective Hong Kong Exile and the video game company Sunset Visitor. Their conversation with Dr. Doug Eacho aims to explore transpacific politics, vocal performance, motion capture, the state of electronic dance music, uses of allegory, anime fashion… at least.
Since 2011, Hong Kong Exile’s interdisciplinary works such as Foxconn Frequency (no. 3), No Foreigners, and Visitors from Far Away to the State Machine have performed across Canada and in New York, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Sunset Visitor 斜陽過客 ’s debut narrative science-fiction game, 1000xRESIST (2024), appeared on nearly 80 ‘game of the year’ lists from major outlets like NPR, Polygon, and Paste. The game was praised as “a revolution in storytelling” (IGN), “one of the best stories in the medium” (Paste), and “an extraordinary piece of work – one that places diasporic trauma front and centre” (Eurogamer). It was nominated for three awards at the Independent Game Festival and seven Canadian Game Awards.
Natalie Tin Yin Gan 顏婷妍 is an independent choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and writer. Remy Siu 蕭逸南 is a composer and new media artist. Both work on the unceded, ancestral, and occupied lands of the Coast Salish peoples.
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