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Reparative Games: Mental Illness & Game Art
June 27, 2019 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
FreeREPARATIVE GAMES: MENTAL ILLNESSS & GAME ART
An artist talk by Kara Stone
Thursday, June 27
7-8:30PM
FREE with registration
Kara Stone will discuss making games about and with mental illness. She will go in depth about her games Medication Meditation, Cyclothymia, and Ritual of the Moon, and talk about her process of Reparative Game Design.
About the artist
Kara Stone is an artist and scholar interested in the affective and gendered experiences of psychosocial disability, debility, and healing as it relates to art production, particularly videogames. Her artwork has been featured in The Atlantic, Wired, and Vice. She is a member of the Different Games Collective. She holds a BFA in Film Production and master’s degree in Communication and Culture from York University, and is currently a PhD student in Film and Digital Media with a designated emphasis in Feminist Studies at University of California at Santa Cruz.