In 1964, the legendary London theatre maker Joan Littlewood teamed up with the renowned avant-guard architect Cedric Price and cybernetics pioneer Gordon Pask to create a plan for an epic anti-disneyland theme park for the people. The Fun Palace was never built, and it forever lives on in archival documents and sketches as one of the great examples of speculative architecture… until now. In 2023 the TAG MC Bloc created a public survival multiplayer (SMP) server interpreting the original site and sketches for the Fun Palace in Modded Minecraft (Forge 1.18.2). Players were invited to spend 60 days bringing the Fun Palace to life. Our presentation reports on the experience showing a different kind of Minecraft, a different sort of collaborative gaming experience, and hope for continuing the dream of the fun palace!
Darren Wershler is Professor of English and Affiliate Professor of Communication Studies and Cinema at Concordia. He is the Director of the Residual Media Depot and the author (with Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka) of THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (University of... Read More →
Gina Hara is an award-winning Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker and new media artist whose works have been featured at the New Museum in New York, Budapest Kunsthalle, the City of Montreal and the Milan Machinima Film Festival.
Bart Simon is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, the founding Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal. He specializes in game studies and digital culture and has co-developed numerous experimental games including... Read More →
Angelica Calcagnile is an independent student, radio host and graphic designer, with a BA in Communications from Concordia University. She’s interested in Minecraft as a visual medium, as documented in her project A Year In Minecraft.
Thursday May 9, 2024 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
SG KuppelhalleGerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
