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Amanda Stojanov [US] : Make your own game in Unity from a first person (subjective) glitch art & feminist perspective
This will be a beginner friendly workshop in Unity that begins with a presentation on glitch art and the theory of glitch feminism coined by Legacy Russell. In this workshop, we will examine artworks and theories that critically engage with glitch and glitch aesthetics. I will discuss how glitch feminism theory is rooted in cyberfemism theory and how that has influenced cyber feminist art-making and our perceptions of embodiment and the “historically constituted body” within a networked-society. During the presentation I will present a series of artists working in glitch and cyberfeminism as well as show my own work with the voidlab collective from 2015-2017 and where that collective project is now and how it’s carried my work forward.
The projects I will focus on from voidlab (https://projects.dma.ucla.edu/voidlab/) are Decentralizing the Web a year-long UCLA grant-funded series of panels and talks and Feminist Climate Change: Beyond the Binary Exhibit presented Ars Electronica by voidlab and sponsored by UCLA.
Active from 2015 to 2017, voidLab was an intersectional feminist collective for women, non-binary, gender nonconforming, trans and queer people to express individual identities through art and technology. Projects, actions, and reflections accumulated from this temporary community now live in an archive available in PDF and printed format.
The Unity Workshop will be at the beginner level showing how to make a first-person perspective game that can be hosted on the web. We will discuss what Unity is, a short interface introduction, and a basic tutorial using provided assets and glitch effects.
* Registration optional (until Oct 5th 19:00CEST):https://cloud.formatc.hr/apps/forms/JmgkH5HRETW3sG2C
Amanda Stojanov is a media artist who investigates how innovations in communication technologies affect perceptions of identity, agency, and visibility, emphasizing concepts of embodiment and the “historically constituted body” within a networked-society. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in venues such as the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Ars Electronica, Linz. Her work has also been featured in publications like Artillery magazine, The New York Times, and The Associated Press.
Amanda holds a BFA in Design from Monmouth University and an MFA in Media Arts from UCLA. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Monmouth University, NJ, and is co-lead director of the IDM Research Lab.
amandastojanov.com
