What Even is An Art Game?

Across a gamified vote-based performance lecture, Side Quest author Elliott Burns invites you to question what we mean when we say 'art game'. Pulling upon and unpacking multiple definitions of this term and setting them in a historical schema, What Even Is An Art Game? is an opportunity to take out your phone to strong-agree to strongly-disagree with statements, propositions, examples and the very nature of video games in gallery contexts. Views will be statistically calculated and opinions raised. Discourse, debate and diagramming is expected to follow.

About Elliott Burns:
Elliott Burns is an academic and digital art curator based in London. Via the online publication 'Side Quest' he addresses histories of artist produced computer games. He teaches at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London with expertise in web-based curation and new media art. Previously he has delivered curatorial and research projects with Anonymous Gallery, the British Council, Distant Gallery, ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art&Culture, and the V&A Museum.