28/03/2008

SwanQuake: the user manual Book Launch

7.30 - 9.00 pm

Launch takes place at igloo studios, 449-453 Bethnal Green Road, London, e29qh

Please RSVP to: eskimos@igloo.org.uk

SwanQuake: the user manual contains a series of commissioned essays on subjects such as: Art is DOOMed: The spawning of game art by Shiralee Saul and Helen Stuckey (curator of Games Lab at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image) and Gaming, Uncanny Realism and Technical Demonstration by David Surman (senior lecturer in computer games design, University of Wales). The book is part of the SwanQuake project by igloo. Together with the book launch igloo will preview House the first phase the work.

About the SwanQuake project
SwanQuake is a surreal semi-abstract inhabited world, home to a series of potential encounters. These may be theatrical and dreamlike, sometimes uncanny perhaps even frightening, at times quotidian and familiar. It's these interactions that inspire curiosity, wonder and the desire to continue looking and sensing. However, despite the title 'mashup' of computer game Quake and traditional ballet Swan Lake, there are no targets, health points, wins or dying swans here...
www.SwanQuake.com

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In association with Spring NODE.L '08
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SwanQuake: the user manual is published by Liquid Press/ i-DAT: ISBN Number: 978-1-84102-172-0