mattie brice
Artist & designer; teaches in Performance, Play & Design, UC Santa Cruz
mattie brice is an artist and designer working with contemporary social issues
through play. She has been a culture worker within the games industry for over a
decade as a critic, designer, activist, organizer, curator, and educator. Her
creative work manifests as medium-agnostic games and play experiments, from the
memoir game Mainichi, conceptual art like EAT, performance with empathy
machine, and speculative experiences including The DAFRA Pairing Ceremony.
mattie’s organizing work spans various scales, having co-organized the Queerness
& Games Conference, IndieCade, and #LOSTLEVELS. She now teaches at the
University of California, Santa Cruz’ Performance, Play, & Design department and
her current work focuses on play as activism, speculative methodologies, design
bleed, and social relationships of power.
Nayland Blake
Artist; Co-Director, Studio Arts Program, Bard College
Nayland Blake is an artist. They were born in 1960 in New York City and live
there now, after taking a fourteen year sojourn in California. From 2002 to 2020
they served as the chair at the ICP/Bard MFA program at the International Center
of Photography. Currently they are the Co-Director of the Studio Arts Program at
Bard College. For ten years, they shared their home with Lehigh, a very
self-possessed Boston Terrier. In 2005 they paid off their student loans.
Shaka McGlotten
Professor of Media Studies & Anthropology; Chair of Gender Studies, Purchase College–SUNY
Shaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase
College–SUNY, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies program. An
anthropologist and artist, their work stages encounters between black study,
queer theory, media, and art. They have written and lectured widely on
networked intimacies and messy computational entanglements as they interface
with queer of color lifeworlds.
