tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32816333952939079692024-03-08T06:34:22.409-05:00Alison HumphreyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-33430658806724349132023-10-23T14:09:00.127-04:002024-01-19T14:31:38.183-05:00A North-South Shadowpox Summit<p>What a joy it was to visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DebajehmujigStorytellers/" target="_blank">Debajehmujig Storytellers</a> with Asiphe Ntshongontshi for a North-South <i>Shadowpox</i> Summit on Manitoulin Island last week! </p><p>This “citizen science fiction” knowledge-exchange enabled Asiphe, a member of the <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2019/03/on-location-at-desmond-tutu-hiv.html">2019</a> South African lab, to meet and collaborate with young artists from northern Ontario who participated in <i>Shadowpox</i> labs in <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2018/12/debajehmujig-catches-shadowpox.html">2018</a> and <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2022/01/co-creating-vaccine-confidence.html">2022</a>. We had a blast sharing experiences and discussing future applications of sci-fi world-building and role-playing to improve health in communities on opposite sides of the globe. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX5naPcH0ME7XFcSUXtBQJ_E7vXGMP7fJfZEOe_Qmrp1lqMGwozO1BnzJEYETm5-JB-lGsngTrepuHEMqz4bV7CJIN9xpS_KOHtomLW2sugm0odTyWmn9nDCEhdRneej2_hQVfboF5GoOzDRjfiKh1zvzw3LCioaFYYEYKMIVWtj3r8woqK3IUBGjSg_E/s4032/Asiphe%20at%20Debajehmujig%20-%20Oct%202023.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX5naPcH0ME7XFcSUXtBQJ_E7vXGMP7fJfZEOe_Qmrp1lqMGwozO1BnzJEYETm5-JB-lGsngTrepuHEMqz4bV7CJIN9xpS_KOHtomLW2sugm0odTyWmn9nDCEhdRneej2_hQVfboF5GoOzDRjfiKh1zvzw3LCioaFYYEYKMIVWtj3r8woqK3IUBGjSg_E/w400-h300/Asiphe%20at%20Debajehmujig%20-%20Oct%202023.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Our colleagues at Debaj, led by Joahnna Berti and Bruce Naokwegijig, also arranged for Asiphe to visit <a href="https://highschool.wbe-education.ca/" target="_blank">Wikwemikong High School</a> with Principal Harold Fox, who took the time to give us a wide-ranging tour of his inspiring institution. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIttIZqf7sqZhDH_XhYHURMX_tgQhCOLflkx62YJr2mr_oPmLgcfy0bEfes2tCIbEdUSD2qIfb5rk4ZUwtGIBs3WQxXbRPbgTT2Szju-r4Ir_aosZj6nkpJgv0fEkHggS_wxGNdXxfKOzdOk_Qdt7F7jMefpVgGezQ3M5J_izQmPKd6wh3wxRozO_-ZLU/s1536/Asiphe's%20talk%20at%20York%20U.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="749" data-original-width="1536" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIttIZqf7sqZhDH_XhYHURMX_tgQhCOLflkx62YJr2mr_oPmLgcfy0bEfes2tCIbEdUSD2qIfb5rk4ZUwtGIBs3WQxXbRPbgTT2Szju-r4Ir_aosZj6nkpJgv0fEkHggS_wxGNdXxfKOzdOk_Qdt7F7jMefpVgGezQ3M5J_izQmPKd6wh3wxRozO_-ZLU/w400-h195/Asiphe's%20talk%20at%20York%20U.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>It was a privilege to host Asiphe during her week in Canada, and we are hugely grateful for the <a href="https://www.artshealthecrn.com/post/ec3r-small-grant-award-winners">EC3R Small Grant Award</a> that made her visit possible.</div><div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-51958857589222590292023-10-11T13:29:00.001-04:002023-10-11T14:05:36.354-04:00Abstract Art<div>It's less than two weeks till my PhD oral examination! I'm looking forward to the conversation and feel incredibly lucky to have <a href="http://www.patrickjagoda.com/" target="_blank">Patrick Jagoda</a> as external examiner, <a href="https://www.ianpgarrett.com/" target="_blank">Ian Garrett</a> as internal/external, and <a href="https://ampd.yorku.ca/profile/sharon-hayashi/" target="_blank">Sharon Hayashi</a> as exam committee chair, along with my amazing dissertation committee, <a href="https://caitlinfisher.ca/" target="_blank">Caitlin Fisher</a> (supervisor), <a href="https://jenjenson.com/" target="_blank">Jennifer Jenson</a>, and <a href="https://artificialnature.net/" target="_blank">Graham Wakefield</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>In the process of preparing for the big day, I figured I'd post the abstract for anyone who might be curious.</div><div><br /></div><div>_____ </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><b>The <i>Shadowpox</i> Storyworld as Citizen Science Fiction: Building Co-Immunity through Participatory Mixed-Reality Storytelling</b><div><br /></div>
Alison Humphrey <div><br /></div><div>A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy </div><div><br /></div><div>Graduate Program in Cinema and Media Studies </div><div>York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>_____<br />
<div><b>Abstract</b><div><br /></div><div>Scientific evidence can influence us in decisions like whether to get immunized, but so can storytelling, the artful show-and-tell of cause-and-effect which can convey misinformation as readily as it does fact. Building on inoculation theory and active learning, I argue in “The <i>Shadowpox</i> Storyworld as Citizen Science Fiction: Building Co-Immunity through Participatory Mixed-Reality Storytelling” that a new form of participatory storytelling called “citizen science fiction” can intervene in vaccine hesitancy by helping people explore what makes a story compelling, what makes science convincing, and how fear and distrust can be engineered to sway us away from action we might otherwise take. This research-creation dissertation recounts the design and testing of three multimodal experiments in a single science fiction storyworld, titled <i>Shadowpox</i>. The first experiment is a full-body videogame, the second is a networked narrative, and the third is a new form, a pedagogical-dramatic art hybrid I am calling a “courseplay”. </div><div><br /></div><div>The design of the gallery-installation videogame <i>Shadowpox: The Antibody Politic </i>began with generative visual effects motion-tracked to the player’s body and avatar, but its procedural rhetoric came together only with the addition of 99 other avatars embodying the concept of community immunity. The vaccine-trial role-play of <i>Shadowpox: The Cytokine Storm</i> re-imagines immunity as an acquired superpower whose bearers are framed as villains as often as they’re hailed as heroes, inviting participants to think more deeply about the story design and real-life toll of misinformation. With the advent of Covid-19, these pre-pandemic workshops in London, Cape Town, and Manitoulin Island were joined by the online courseplay <i>Digital Culture: Science & Fiction</i>, where York University students in lockdown blended reading, writing and role-playing to explore the scientific and social-media dynamics around a historic rollout of new vaccines. I propose a new research-creation pedagogy, “action refraction,” to help learners reflect on the interplay between evidence, affect, fiction, and alternative-fact confection. Citizen science fiction as a broader methodology, meanwhile, has the potential to promote participants and researchers alike from storytellers into story-<i>listeners</i>, moving from the one-way explanation of many scientific-literacy efforts to the reciprocal empathy essential for truly healthy citizenship. </div></div></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-17957146194066693822023-06-26T07:58:00.009-04:002024-03-06T22:40:09.531-05:00AI and Theatre (and and and...)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIumcEpEyvIJEn3psRVHRNCh3G_bZ6PnKfK38iz-GA17D6WL8PeF6ub0KPprlCYpJ96md8EpKYLzcMGF5BCOTHoHdoAgF_vMZtbE8hanB3u71CJeNcL1UgXZK0Q6QAMYGRuw9987B7wyz-DTQmSmp_pMXfGZEb0jn2O5h71PyxlVtvSNx8MZkMCmc/s1728/ai_artful_intelligence_oxford.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="1728" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIumcEpEyvIJEn3psRVHRNCh3G_bZ6PnKfK38iz-GA17D6WL8PeF6ub0KPprlCYpJ96md8EpKYLzcMGF5BCOTHoHdoAgF_vMZtbE8hanB3u71CJeNcL1UgXZK0Q6QAMYGRuw9987B7wyz-DTQmSmp_pMXfGZEb0jn2O5h71PyxlVtvSNx8MZkMCmc/w400-h120/ai_artful_intelligence_oxford.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>Hope you can join us at today's panel on <a href="https://torch.web.ox.ac.uk/event/ai-and-theatre" target="_blank">AI and Theatre</a> at <a href="https://torch.ox.ac.uk/">The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)</a>! </p><p>Here are a few links for the projects I'll be presenting on:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/search/label/Shadowpox" target="_blank">Shadowpox</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/search/label/Faster%20than%20Night" target="_blank">Faster Than Night</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/search/label/A%20Midsummer%20Night%27s%20Dream" target="_blank">A (motion-capture) Midsummer Night's Dream</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2023/03/starship-titanic-25th-anniversary.html" target="_blank">Starship Titanic</a></li></ul><p></p><p>Our conversation on "the current and future uses of AI and immersive technology in theatre and performance," chaired by TORCH Director <a href="https://torch.web.ox.ac.uk/people/wes-williams" target="_blank">Wes Williams</a>, will also feature the Royal Shakespeare Company's Director of Digital Development <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/scarahnellis/">Sarah Ellis</a>, multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker <a href="http://ruthiedoyle.com/">Ruthie Doyle</a>, immersive producer & curator <a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dan-tucker-a1b17524">Dan Tucker</a>, and <a href="https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/david-taylor" target="_blank">David Taylor</a>, Associate Professor of English.</p><p>The event is part of Oxford University's <a href="https://torch.web.ox.ac.uk/artful-intelligence-season" target="_blank">Artful Intelligence Season</a>, "a forum to discuss and shape key questions at the intersection of AI and Creativity," hosted by the <a href="https://torch.web.ox.ac.uk/humanities-cultural-programme">Humanities Cultural Programme</a> and <a href="https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/">The Institute for Ethics in AI</a>.</p><p>Should be fascinating!</p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-46537360930770257812023-05-21T20:06:00.011-04:002023-05-29T13:35:57.666-04:00Shadowcasting and TORCH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFUAgCeylPXxUT-dGCE7cxQpmRVDu7stFsWwoYAFEDFIdqEflre8e19CL-dng3xQgZf0O2M4qgzGm6behpz53VffaV9IGsjSkHzNp4_vZH1fAMSbuNRpf0lyIQHnOGFZdbuqjsgrYK9Bq8SlSJE6XxJn1tPqha3iFroQUtdcI_bTjZMHheAN5_4npM/s1642/Congress_2023_logo.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="1642" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFUAgCeylPXxUT-dGCE7cxQpmRVDu7stFsWwoYAFEDFIdqEflre8e19CL-dng3xQgZf0O2M4qgzGm6behpz53VffaV9IGsjSkHzNp4_vZH1fAMSbuNRpf0lyIQHnOGFZdbuqjsgrYK9Bq8SlSJE6XxJn1tPqha3iFroQUtdcI_bTjZMHheAN5_4npM/w640-h166/Congress_2023_logo.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p>I'm hugely looking forward to chairing a roundtable next weekend with good friends Asiphe Ntshongontshi (Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre), Joahnna Berti (Debajehmujig Storytellers), and Maurianne Reade (Northern Ontario School of Medicine University).</p><div>You can catch our conversation, titled "Shadowcasting from Manitoulin to Masiphumelele: 'Citizen Science Fiction' as Mixed-Reality Role-Play for Civic, Scientific and Media Literacy," at 1:30pm on May 28th. <div><br /></div><div>The <a href="https://www.filmstudies.ca/conference/fsac2023" target="_blank">Film and Media Studies Association of Canada</a> conference is part of the 2023 <a href="https://www.yorku.ca/congress2023/" target="_blank">Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences</a>, hosted this year on my home turf at York University.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>May 29 update: </i>Pics!</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2veSWmHVFcN0QzQMxB87sjinsnJ0mopRHri-TLb0zLPC6Pv4HUrq1oxTn2XyX9YyFp-1mtot4BeVA-jufg1ktcS8DP-avM4nsRGipJbCGauufc00eBL7VRyG4wFMvyFozB31_q8-rmZW5kPX4mzCgveWulYoGViVW6yeBISYe1ooRamIqAlQtPIoV/s2079/IMG_3632-FMSAC-Zoom-gallery.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="2079" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2veSWmHVFcN0QzQMxB87sjinsnJ0mopRHri-TLb0zLPC6Pv4HUrq1oxTn2XyX9YyFp-1mtot4BeVA-jufg1ktcS8DP-avM4nsRGipJbCGauufc00eBL7VRyG4wFMvyFozB31_q8-rmZW5kPX4mzCgveWulYoGViVW6yeBISYe1ooRamIqAlQtPIoV/s320/IMG_3632-FMSAC-Zoom-gallery.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zoom's-eye view of the roundtable</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIoODxRfsfzFhf75ISxl3J6jQVIPSDeNY7HCdu88ACxbi63vw56qs7GBDxZ8Wyw0knqpDSXne3t7CWRbjQzodAVw36jN10-ThxwA4ave5ihflK5rWgCANVwgHzDmkFIdFkVG-B_7FHy_zG_iUt8iOx16smv34wsn8YSSKinPS2s_X9hUPRLD-Ihoz-/s960/IMG_3622-FMSAC-Zoom-Asiphe.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="705" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIoODxRfsfzFhf75ISxl3J6jQVIPSDeNY7HCdu88ACxbi63vw56qs7GBDxZ8Wyw0knqpDSXne3t7CWRbjQzodAVw36jN10-ThxwA4ave5ihflK5rWgCANVwgHzDmkFIdFkVG-B_7FHy_zG_iUt8iOx16smv34wsn8YSSKinPS2s_X9hUPRLD-Ihoz-/s320/IMG_3622-FMSAC-Zoom-Asiphe.jpg" width="235" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Asiphe Ntshongontshi joining remotely from Florida</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYnpV6ZSlbPj9cFpNIaBSWkBQKE3iasuxkbIwK5tMMso9zKA_W11FvnoImX66Wv_mNoLGFJ19QS2g7TJ3-v0Wfogx09DwHq8PPkG7bC7f-9S3nPD47QGlDnhopMG6bU7aIwEBW4_NMkl8tdK6_lPyXwZFGmaiDdgo1ZAvNB8PDQJ_Oq9aor2h6edJG/s4032/IMG_3588-FMSAC-Maurianne-Jo-and-Alison.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2746" data-original-width="4032" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYnpV6ZSlbPj9cFpNIaBSWkBQKE3iasuxkbIwK5tMMso9zKA_W11FvnoImX66Wv_mNoLGFJ19QS2g7TJ3-v0Wfogx09DwHq8PPkG7bC7f-9S3nPD47QGlDnhopMG6bU7aIwEBW4_NMkl8tdK6_lPyXwZFGmaiDdgo1ZAvNB8PDQJ_Oq9aor2h6edJG/s320/IMG_3588-FMSAC-Maurianne-Jo-and-Alison.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maurianne Reade, <span style="text-align: left;">Joahnna Berti and Alison Humphrey<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><p></p><p></p><hr /><p></p><p></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIumcEpEyvIJEn3psRVHRNCh3G_bZ6PnKfK38iz-GA17D6WL8PeF6ub0KPprlCYpJ96md8EpKYLzcMGF5BCOTHoHdoAgF_vMZtbE8hanB3u71CJeNcL1UgXZK0Q6QAMYGRuw9987B7wyz-DTQmSmp_pMXfGZEb0jn2O5h71PyxlVtvSNx8MZkMCmc/s1728/ai_artful_intelligence_oxford.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="1728" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIumcEpEyvIJEn3psRVHRNCh3G_bZ6PnKfK38iz-GA17D6WL8PeF6ub0KPprlCYpJ96md8EpKYLzcMGF5BCOTHoHdoAgF_vMZtbE8hanB3u71CJeNcL1UgXZK0Q6QAMYGRuw9987B7wyz-DTQmSmp_pMXfGZEb0jn2O5h71PyxlVtvSNx8MZkMCmc/w400-h120/ai_artful_intelligence_oxford.png" width="400" /></a></div></div></div></div><p>One month later, I get to participate in another exciting panel, this time on <a href="https://torch.web.ox.ac.uk/event/ai-and-theatre" target="_blank">AI and Theatre</a>, chaired by <a href="https://torch.web.ox.ac.uk/people/wes-williams" target="_blank">Wes Williams</a>, director of <a href="https://torch.ox.ac.uk/">The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)</a>. </p><p>This conversation on "the current and future uses of AI and immersive technology in theatre and performance" features the Royal Shakespeare Company's Director of Digital Development <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/scarahnellis/">Sarah Ellis</a>, multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker <a href="http://ruthiedoyle.com/">Ruthie Doyle</a>, and immersive producer & curator <a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dan-tucker-a1b17524">Dan Tucker</a>.</p><p>The June 26th event is part of Oxford University's <a href="https://torch.web.ox.ac.uk/artful-intelligence-season" target="_blank">Artful Intelligence Season</a>, "a forum to discuss and shape key questions at the intersection of AI and Creativity," hosted by the <a href="https://torch.web.ox.ac.uk/humanities-cultural-programme">Humanities Cultural Programme</a> and <a href="https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/">The Institute for Ethics in AI</a>.</p><p>While I'm there, I'm also excited to talk further with Prof. Williams and his team about their upcoming project <a href="https://torch.ox.ac.uk/fantasy-futures" target="_blank">Fantasy Futures: Imagining Immersive Innovation</a>, which will use motion capture and augmented reality to "harness the energies and enthusiasm that are generated by worlds peopled by monsters – from Ancient cultures through Tolkien’s monstrous imaginings to the Marvel universe."</p><p>"The project <a href="https://torch.ox.ac.uk/article/fantasy-futures" target="_blank">emerged</a> out of a desire to reimagine for the twenty-first century the Humanities Division’s centuries-long expertise in unearthing fascinating research narratives from the worlds of Ancient and Fantasy Literature. </p><p>"By synthesizing this research excellence with the UK’s world-leading gaming sector, the project is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the opportunities afforded by the latest cutting-edge advances in immersive storytelling."</p><p>Serious fun!</p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-12144902494409601002023-04-24T16:53:00.001-04:002023-05-21T20:31:10.996-04:00Media Arts Futures<p></p><p>To celebrate the end of term, I'm posting a playlist of all the Media Arts Futures guest speakers I've been lucky enough to host in <i>CMA 1123 Writing for Games and Interactive Media </i>over the past two years.</p><p>Enjoy!</p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLMjm8p0rA4QYp9D_w7hXvyE82mF3m9e7h" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-47231293304493735752023-03-24T14:34:00.018-04:002023-05-21T20:38:46.233-04:00Starship Titanic 25th anniversary<p>Forget ChatGPT. A quarter of a century ago, a point-and-click CD-ROM adventure game from Douglas Adams featured a groundbreaking conversation engine called "SpookiTalk", which allowed you to chat with actual robots.</p><p>To celebrate the release of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Titanic" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Starship Titanic</a> 25 years ago this April, here's a panel discussion with members of the dev team which I hosted as part of my York U course <i>Writing for Games and Interactive Media</i> this time last year. </p><p>March 2022 was the 25th anniversary of the game's original <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1398-i-love-deadlines-i-love-the-whooshing-noise-they-make" target="_blank">deadline whooshing by</a>, and as I'd actually worked at <a href="http://www.tdv.com" target="_blank">The Digital Village</a> back in the day, I figured I'd introduce my old colleagues to my first-year Media Arts students, none of whom were alive when the game was released, so we could all feel old together.</p><p>In preparation, I assigned for homework J.C. Herz's <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/10CavdSCTlNGaevRy9ODU7XI2-HcGJef2/view?usp=share_link" target="_blank">1998 <i>New York Times </i>review</a>, PushingUpRoses' <a href="https://youtu.be/ZqhkwUy4Emw" target="_blank">2014 YouTube review</a>, and the following brief audio interview of Douglas Adams by Aram Sinnreich on the release of the new game: </p><div><p>
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<br /></p><p><i>(CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. Excerpt from original audio file "Aram Sinnreich interviews Douglas Adams," publication date 1998-04-21, at <a href="https://archive.org/details/ASDA042198">https://archive.org/details/ASDA042198</a>. Photo by Robbie Stamp of Douglas Adams working on Starship Titanic in 1997 at The Digital Village, Camden, London.)</i></p><p>With the table set, the class welcomed our guests in from three timezones. Here are our contemporary portraits and job titles at <a href="http://tdv.com/html/people.html" target="_blank">TDV</a>:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbq86ocjopD01J0aNeFc44k-kErzwLZmtUPaayfBJuz0VkypSMKh_8fVsnDstBiN0lycd42zTlpMydwGx5CNiwdscBZrTqrt5gQBGdk31Y3vgE3fvAiIy6Jo8fQ927ttxFHWysHt1G-DNQh2-dGAAGhHIH8_9dgwA8dWRI_FcOBj7l-CeraLY-SbMc/s528/TDV_people.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbq86ocjopD01J0aNeFc44k-kErzwLZmtUPaayfBJuz0VkypSMKh_8fVsnDstBiN0lycd42zTlpMydwGx5CNiwdscBZrTqrt5gQBGdk31Y3vgE3fvAiIy6Jo8fQ927ttxFHWysHt1G-DNQh2-dGAAGhHIH8_9dgwA8dWRI_FcOBj7l-CeraLY-SbMc/s16000/TDV_people.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>Clockwise from top left:</p><p>• Robbie Stamp (Chief Executive, The Digital Village)</p><p>• Emma Westecott (producer)</p><p>• Neil Richards (writer)</p><p>• Yoz Grahame (web technologist)</p><p>• Jason Williams (software engineer)</p><p>• Alison Humphrey (web producer)</p><p>Enjoy the chat!</p><p>
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<p>For extra credit:<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UR0z1rR7L_wZTNuEJTyHcCn_mijEh7oA/view?usp=share_link" target="_blank">Excerpts from Neil Richards's <i>Starship Titanic: The Official Strategy Guide</i> (1998)</a>, including a foreword by Douglas Adams, profiles of and postcards from the bots, and interviews on VelociText by Linda Watson, SpookiTalk by Jason Williams, and the game engine LifeBoat by Sean Sollé. (Plus an ad for exclusive merchandise, about which more below.) <br /><br /></li><li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SYz1Fx175s5FYjURgMzhBzUMFOqvVwOj/view?usp=share_link" target="_blank">Interview with Michael Bywater</a> on writing<i> Starship Titanic</i> with Douglas and Neil, from Philipp Lenssen's <i><a href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-07-22-n64.html" target="_blank">Graphic Adventures</a></i> (2010). <br /><br /></li><li><a href="https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/467290/manuals/Manual.pdf">Your Lovely Special Inaugural Commemorative Heirloom First Class' In-Flight Magazine</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.starshiptitanic.com/prelaunch/">Starlight Travel Pre-Launch Passenger Prospectus</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://starlightlines.com/">Star-Struct Inc. Construction Intranet: RESTRICTED ACCESS</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.starshiptitanic.com/game/botindex.html">The 1998 Official Website</a><br /></li></ul>The website is miraculously still live, but the Starship Titanic online shop, which I ran from 1998 to 2000, alas, is not. </div><div><br /></div><div>Here's the SuperGalactic Traveller Class In-Flight Bag, sold IRL alongside other less-bonkers merch (like t-shirts, posters and an embroidered jean jacket):</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlXPySl6Xs4hbWYdDWNv-tTdAXZnkZO-JzdF0bN71KsVQYYwNlzV-DURLM4WvxQj7NrAp5TGtP0VQZQBxQCzJZKtFBbZj0iajXcoLSSYLQXE9HQNkHiIoNgwsJUBCTNtq3izdgQHT638I38CqAUudnNYlKsAKP7hxkE3pJ7ca5RTVLDq51BeIA2Cs/s559/Starship_Titanic_bag_and_contents.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="416" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlXPySl6Xs4hbWYdDWNv-tTdAXZnkZO-JzdF0bN71KsVQYYwNlzV-DURLM4WvxQj7NrAp5TGtP0VQZQBxQCzJZKtFBbZj0iajXcoLSSYLQXE9HQNkHiIoNgwsJUBCTNtq3izdgQHT638I38CqAUudnNYlKsAKP7hxkE3pJ7ca5RTVLDq51BeIA2Cs/w476-h640/Starship_Titanic_bag_and_contents.png" width="476" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div>The bag came packed with everything you could need as a SuperGalactic Traveller Class (steerage) passenger, including towel, slippers, sleep mask, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, toothbrush, sewing kit, airsickness bag, note pad, ballpoint pen, and shoeshine sponge, all emblazoned with the Starship Titanic logo.</div><div><br /></div><div>Michael Bywater wrote the bag's immortal Contents Card:</div></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><hr style="text-align: center;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p>Less than a year before the pandemic, on 12 March 2019, peer health interns Zanele Melapi and Sibulele Bontshi reflected on their participation in the "citizen science fiction" storyworld <i>Shadowpox: The Cytokine Storm</i>, at the <a href="https://desmondtutuhealthfoundation.org.za/what-we-do/desmond-tutu-hiv-foundation-youth-centre/" target="_blank">Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre</a>, Masiphumelele, South Africa. </p>
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RIDoyogklh4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><b>Transcripts</b></div><div><span><a name='more'></a></span><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Zanele Melapi </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Hi, I'm Zanele Melapi and I'm 19 years old. I'm a youth intern at the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre and I'm from South Africa, in Cape Town, a small area in Fish Hoek called Masiphumelele. </div><div><br /></div><div>How would I explain [vaccination] to people, in an easy way for them to get it? I feel like I would just use the Shadowpox thing. Like, for real. Because I feel like even though the vaccination, it's not about the thing when we did the way of the shadowpox. But I feel like that one is much easier for people if you do an example and say, look, if this is a piece of what-what, they take that and then put a little bit of that in the vaccination. And then you get vaccinated whereby if you get the disease, you are protected you are protected from the disease. So meaning, vaccinations are actually a good thing. </div><div><br /></div><div>And then, for the little ones, I feel like Shadowpox is actually a good example of it, for showing the little ones. It's more interesting. And so, you know, children, like the youth, they don't like to watch and sit into a presentation where it's just boring, just talks and no color, and no words, and no fun things. And then when the shadowpox, that thing moves, you see, it moves and moves and moves. And they'd be like, wow, it's actually moving. </div><div><br /></div><div>[<i>What was your favourite part of the workshop?</i>] </div><div><br /></div><div>When we were doing the comics. That was my first time doing something like that. And that was kind of, wow. I didn't know people could actually do that. That was actually nice for me. That I enjoyed the best. And then when we had to act out act out our scenes from the comic, that was nice. I enjoyed that the best. </div><div><br /></div><div>[<i>Did you learn anything from the workshop?</i>] </div><div><br /></div><div>Yeah, 'cause I did not know that you put like a – they put some of the disease in there. I didn't know that. I don't want to lie. I didn't know that. So yeah, that's what I learned. </div><div><br /></div><div>And I learned about the phases, the different phases. Phase one, where the start of the vaccine – the study. And then phase two is when they bring more people, and then phase three is like, expanded. Phases. I didn't know. I just thought you just bring a lot of people. I didn't know it had like a starting point where it's the phase one, introducing the vaccine, and then yeah. </div><div><br /></div><div>[<i>And do you think you'd ever want to be part of a real-life vaccine trial?</i>] </div><div><br /></div><div>Yes, definitely. </div><div><br /></div><div>[<i>How would you say immunity is like a superpower?</i>] </div><div><br /></div><div>The disease can't do anything to you. It's like you're Superman. The bullet won't do anything to you. No, a bullet will do something to you. But when it comes to Superman, the bullet can't do anything to him. So when you have the vaccine, you're protected, meaning that disease won't attack you, won't do anything to you. But other things will. Right? </div><div><br /></div><div>[<i>Do you think people might learn something from watching Shadowpox?</i>] </div><div><br /></div><div>If they knew nothing about vaccinations, then maybe they're going to learn something from this. Since it's a fun thing to look at, not like a boring thing to watch. Where you're going to watch something, you're going to find it entertaining, but you're going to learn something as well. Hopefully they're going to learn something out of it. </div><div><br /></div><div>[<i>Anything else you'd like to add?</i>] </div><div><br /></div><div>How I wish vaccinations were that easy, where you just put– no needles, no nothing. How I wish it was just like that. But the reality is: Needles.</div><div><br /></div><div>___</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Sibulele Bontshi</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>[<i>Do you think information needs to be given in a particular way? Are people interested in hearing it as information, or do you think it’s more useful to tell it in a story like this?</i>] </div><div><br /></div><div>I'd say in a story it would be much better than maybe like social media, because in social media they know, OK, there's usually those pop-out adverts or information that comes up, and they'll instantly think, "OK, nah, they just want money from me, or they're gonna eat my data or my airtime." Something like that. Which is one thing people don't like. Because they hustle for their data. And most of them can't afford it, but they make ways to get it. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>So I'd say maybe something like this, they'll see, maybe me, they'd be like, "OK, I know that guy." Something like that. Then they'd want to hear what I have to say, maybe. Not all of them, but there will be those who are the curious ones who'll try, "OK let me hear what he's got to say. Maybe I might gain something from here. Although it may be small information, but I'll learn something from it." So I think it would be much better like this. </div><div><br /></div><div>And it shouldn't be something long and full of information. Information and pictures here and there, examples, stuff like that. Because just words, they'd be like reading a Bible. And that's a turn-off, especially to the youth and teenagers. They're not into much reading. But they'll read if they see OK, at least, do this and that, in the form of a visual or something like that. I think if you go to social media, if you can use that path, you'll be much more successful than just a whole bunch of information, like some sort of a Bible or something. They wouldn't relate to that.</div><div><br /></div><div>[<i>Did you learn anything from the workshop?</i>] </div><div><br /></div><div>I think the Shadowpox vaccine was just too creative. Because even the shadow thing, I've never heard of a disease that you spread just by catching someone's shadow. That's so– I don't know if I'd say it's freaky or like so unusual, it was just something different for me, like, "What? Catch a disease where you–" Because now I'm imagining if I see maybe you're infected, then I'll have to give you so much space just not to catch your shadow. And that would be so awkward in the road, because there's a lot of people now, and you don't even know who's infected or not. Ah! That would be so hectic. That would be so hectic.</div><div><br /></div><div>[<i>What would you tell other people about Shadowpox?</i>] </div><div><br /></div><div>So yeah, maybe to encourage more people to join in with problems like this, and participate and get more skills. Maybe the person wouldn't know they're passionate about this until they do it. So I'd advise anyone watching or anyone that's willing to try, like give it a try. You might never know what may come out of it. So yeah. That's what I would say to them. </div><div><br /></div><div>I enjoyed it, that's all I can say. I enjoyed it and I would do it again if there was a chance.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-45871412900221693312022-03-26T18:22:00.010-04:002023-05-21T20:31:19.720-04:00AMR AR Game Jam!This week, the students of my course <a href="https://w2prod.sis.yorku.ca/Apps/WebObjects/cdm.woa/wa/crsq?fa=FA&sj=FILM&cn=1123&cr=3.00&ay=2021&ss=FW" target="_blank">FILM 1123: Writing for Games and Interactive Media</a> in York's <a href="https://cma.ampd.yorku.ca/" target="_blank">Department of Cinema and Media Arts</a> held a game jam to explore the concept of <a href="http://bogost.com/books/persuasive_games/" target="_blank">procedural rhetoric</a> by brainstorming augmented reality <a href="https://www.denofgeek.com/games/best-ar-games/" target="_blank">(AR) games</a> that could spread the word about the problem of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLPAodRN1b0">antimicrobial resistance</a> (AMR).<div><br /></div><div>The event was kicked off by special guest <a href="https://www.globalstrategylab.org/team/steven-hoffman">Dr. Steven J. Hoffman</a>, Director of the <a href="https://www.globalstrategylab.org/whocc/about" target="_blank">Global Strategy Lab</a>, Professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science at York University, and Scientific Director at the CIHR Institute of Population & Public Health. Huge thanks to Steven for joining us! <p>
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</p>One of the students in the course, Man Yiu Kingsley Wong, is also a talented photographer, and took the initiative to document the afternoon, which was particularly poignant as it was the only day of the whole term in which we gathered on campus in person.</div><br />
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</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Original post, March 1:</b></p><p>Please join us on March 10 for a free webinar with pop culture polymath Evan Narcisse, writer of comics, video games and animation, which I'll be hosting as part of my course Writing for Games and Interactive Media.</p><p>Evan Narcisse works as a writer and narrative design consultant in video games, comic books, and TV, often focusing on the intersection of blackness and pop culture. As a journalist and critic, he’s written for <i>The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Kotaku, </i>and<i> The New York Times</i>, in addition to teaching game journalism at New York University and appearances as an expert guest on CNN and NPR. He’s also the author of the <i>Rise of the Black Panther</i> graphic novel and a contributor to <i>Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Redfall, </i>and<i> Marvel’s Avenger</i>s. A native New Yorker, he now lives in Austin, Texas.</p><p>Presented by the Department of Cinema and Media Arts.</p><p>March 10, 2022<br />11:30am EST</p><p>Register <a href="https://events.yorku.ca/events/media-arts-futures-in-conversation-with-evan-narcisse/">HERE<span></span></a></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNBvHAX79-wpTy68e_uXhYkFUh5wl2HgmrLMSAnjeIY9rT0rggnyF-MJX7PRziritYZinWTFU_ORVUJq9PGEJtFOoB98ul_7hzfABxy15X49Q9rVHWoJoX5qhN3VCahXRPcY-V_owWQvsZ-9pynPVFstXlWy0r-6_Ym9_cP0myFUYtu5VJYgNQaN97/s2200/Media_Arts_Futures_Evan_Narcisse_March_10_poster.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="1700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNBvHAX79-wpTy68e_uXhYkFUh5wl2HgmrLMSAnjeIY9rT0rggnyF-MJX7PRziritYZinWTFU_ORVUJq9PGEJtFOoB98ul_7hzfABxy15X49Q9rVHWoJoX5qhN3VCahXRPcY-V_owWQvsZ-9pynPVFstXlWy0r-6_Ym9_cP0myFUYtu5VJYgNQaN97/w494-h640/Media_Arts_Futures_Evan_Narcisse_March_10_poster.png" width="494" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-67674216204638277392022-01-21T20:36:00.093-05:002022-03-13T20:05:29.041-04:00Co-Creating Vaccine Confidence: An Anishinabe Theatre-Based ApproachI'm thrilled to be able to announce a new two-year project on which I'm a co-investigator, alongside the talented and lovely Joahnna Berti, Bruce Naokwegijig and Maurianne Reade, reigniting the <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2018/12/debajehmujig-catches-shadowpox.html">Shadowpox collaboration we began at Debajehmujig Storytellers in 2018</a>! <br /><br />The new project is titled <i>Co-Creating Vaccine Confidence: An Anishinabe Theatre-Based Approach to Strengthen Indigenous Youth and Young Adult Vaccination Support, </i>and it's funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research under the COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence - Indigenous Health Research Operating Grant. <br /><br />The team has grown to include <a href="https://www.nosm.ca/2022/01/18/nosm-researchers-study-indigenous-vaccine-confidence-in-northern-ontario/" target="_blank">more great folks from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine,</a> among others, and is led by principal investigators Marion Maar, Maurianne Reade, and Mariette Sutherland. (Yes, Marion, Maurianne and Mariette – a trio of names tailor-made for a musical theatre number!)<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr0-b0pPkEXe9L2lmj3kuev7ZNRpk2_TFz5_76IdvhN_3OirjaM-KXGYFXnsPS1UVqUmh2q5UpPn5ygDejydIvktE4THkJZ75Ni8YQniu95uL7smKOWENQ08hjpaY2yK8T8qGKnhUIlKQF0EF98JuXfoqMTjSj4GBAo5sS6oKE7_R62xH1eZ8GL-n-=s1576" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="1576" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr0-b0pPkEXe9L2lmj3kuev7ZNRpk2_TFz5_76IdvhN_3OirjaM-KXGYFXnsPS1UVqUmh2q5UpPn5ygDejydIvktE4THkJZ75Ni8YQniu95uL7smKOWENQ08hjpaY2yK8T8qGKnhUIlKQF0EF98JuXfoqMTjSj4GBAo5sS6oKE7_R62xH1eZ8GL-n-=w400-h179" width="400" /></a></div><br />We're now working on a 60-minute presentation for the <a href="https://www.chiefsmeeting.com/healthforum-2022" target="_blank">Chiefs of Ontario Health Forum</a> on February 23rd.<br /><br />Here's some of the press the announcement has received.<br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Press Release</h3><div><br /></div><div>Northern Ontario School of Medicine: <a href="https://www.nosm.ca/2022/01/18/nosm-researchers-study-indigenous-vaccine-confidence-in-northern-ontario/" target="_blank">NOSM researchers study Indigenous vaccine confidence in Northern Ontario</a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Radio</h3><div><br /></div>CBC Morning North: <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-41-morning-north/clip/15890023-nosm-researchers-trying-grow-covid-19-vaccine-uptake-among" target="_blank">NOSM researchers trying to grow COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Indigenous youth</a><br /><br />CBC Up North: <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-84/clip/15890364" target="_blank">Debajehmujig Storytellers and NOSM collaborate to fight vaccine hesitancy</a><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Video</h3><div><br /></div>CTV News Northern Ontario: <a href="https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2365091" target="_blank">NOSM researchers have launched a new study that they're hoping will boost vaccine confidence among Indigenous youth</a><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Articles</h3><div><br /></div>CBC Sudbury: <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/nosm-indigenous-vaccine-research-1.6320423" target="_blank">Indigenous vaccine confidence being studied in northeastern Ontario</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><br /></a><br />CTV News Northern Ontario: <a href="https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/new-study-targets-vaccine-confidence-for-indigenous-youth-1.5747102" target="_blank">New study targets vaccine confidence for Indigenous youth</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><br /></a><br />Sudbury Star: <a href="https://www.thesudburystar.com/news/local-news/nosm-researchers-study-indigenous-vaccine-confidence-in-north" target="_blank">NOSM researchers study Indigenous vaccine confidence in North</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-70315208007116364352021-11-15T00:14:00.011-05:002022-05-25T11:32:04.267-04:00Shadowpox Links for Immune Nations PanelI thought I'd share some links for anyone interested in following up on some of my references in the <a href="https://museum.mcmaster.ca/immune-nations-exhibition-opens-september-2021/"><Immune Nations></a> panel discussion, "<a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2021/10/panel-ensuring-equitable-access-life.html" target="_blank">Ensuring Equitable Access: Life-Saving Vaccines during COVID-19 and Beyond</a>." <div><br /><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Covid-update online game <a href="https://shadowpox.org/game/" target="_blank"><i>Shadowpox: #StayHome Edition</i></a><br /><br /></li><li>The gallery installation game <i><a href="http://www.immunenations.com/shadowpox-the-antibody-politic.html" target="_blank">Shadowpox: The Antibody Politic</a><br /><br /></i></li><li>York University articles about the <a href="https://news.yorku.ca/2020/04/08/online-video-game-brings-to-life-the-impact-of-staying-home-during-covid-19-pandemic/" target="_blank">online game</a> and the <a href="https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/02/07/interactive-videogame-highlights-the-impact-of-vaccine-decision-making/" target="_blank">gallery installation</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2020/09/imaginations.html" target="_blank"><i>Imaginations</i> journal articles</a> about the Shadowpox project<br /><br /></li><li><i>Shadowpox: The Cytokine Storm</i> "citizen science fiction" workshops…<br />…at <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2018/12/debajehmujig-catches-shadowpox.html" target="_blank">Debajehmujig Storytellers</a>, Wiikwemkoong<br />…at the <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2019/03/on-location-at-desmond-tutu-hiv.html" target="_blank">Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre</a>, Masiphumelele<br />…at the <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2016/07/performance-capture-for-stage-film-and.html" target="_blank">Royal Academy of Dramatic Art</a>, London</li></ul></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Update: </b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVqh7cQabKM" target="_blank">A recording of the webinar</a> has just been released by the McMaster Museum of Art. The short sections where I speak about <i>Shadowpox</i> and the role of art in changing perspectives are cued up below.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Citizen science fiction<i>,</i> Captain America, and the X-Men:</b></div>
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<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-74225050049889458592021-08-02T13:44:00.011-04:002023-07-31T22:37:29.902-04:00Immune Nations at the McMaster Museum of Art<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Update: Check out the <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2021/09/tour-new-immune-nations.html">tour video</a>!</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, a little virus slowed us down, but <a href="http://www.immunenations.com/" target="_blank"><Immune Nations></a> will finally have its North American premiere this fall at the McMaster Museum of Art! </span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="http://imaginations.glendon.yorku.ca/?p=13378" target="_blank">Shadowpox: The Antibody Politic</a></i> (2017) will be installed for an in-person experience in the gallery, while <i><a href="https://shadowpox.org/game/" target="_blank">Shadowpox: #StayHome Edition</a></i> (2020) is our online adaptation of the game, created in the first months of the pandemic. See the <a href="http://www.immunenations.com/shadowpox-the-antibody-politic.html" target="_blank"><i>Shadowpox</i> page on the <Immune Nations> site</a> for our reflections on remounting the exhibition in the era of Covid-19. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'll also be joining one of the <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2021/10/panel-ensuring-equitable-access-life.html">virtual panel discussions</a> during the run of the show (see below for info).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1ay5Ty5nVrA5QD5ilfGokCO2lnvFqiw9A7rIuz4lLb5RnisePnWh5ES2ZLhOsbuAYLkg_Z_UipQJh8kHt1gmQAhZ3v3EuP01fqMiZeCiWj4RjLxLJxJbwFn2emXIxDFBMLyIs7MJGOY/s1920/Shadowpox-glyph-on-hand-DTHF.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1ay5Ty5nVrA5QD5ilfGokCO2lnvFqiw9A7rIuz4lLb5RnisePnWh5ES2ZLhOsbuAYLkg_Z_UipQJh8kHt1gmQAhZ3v3EuP01fqMiZeCiWj4RjLxLJxJbwFn2emXIxDFBMLyIs7MJGOY/w400-h300/Shadowpox-glyph-on-hand-DTHF.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please see the McMaster Museum of Art for the full announcement:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://museum.mcmaster.ca/immune-nations-exhibition-opens-september-2021/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://museum.mcmaster.ca/immune-nations-exhibition-opens-september-2021/</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><Immune Nations></span>, an evidence-based exhibition about the constructive role that art can play in public discourse around life-saving vaccines, will open at the McMaster Museum of Art on September 2!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>As the M(M)A prepares for a fall re-opening, details will be released shortly about visiting the exhibition in person.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><Immune Nations><br /></span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">September 2 – December 11, 2021</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">Curated by Natalie Loveless, Associate Professor, Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Alberta</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">The COVID-19 pandemic has raised urgent questions related to effective use of vaccines and has led to polarized global debates on vaccine equity.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><Immune Nations> is the first multi-year research-based exhibition to specifically address the issue of vaccination from a collaborative, interdisciplinary perspective, attentive to the arts and its many roles for advocacy and political intervention. The outcome of a multi-year project that was developed prior to the pandemic (2014-2017), the exhibition explores complex issues related to the use and distribution of vaccines in the world today and the capacity of artistic research to solicit complex forms of affective engagement when dealing with difficult and divisive social and political topics such as vaccination.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">For the McMaster Museum of Art, the exhibition presents original work alongside new work produced in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">Featuring collaborative art and research projects by Jesper Alvær, Sean Caulfield, Timothy Caulfield, Patrick Fafard, Caitlin Fisher, Steven J. Hoffman, Johan Holst, Annemarie Hou, Alison Humphrey, Rachelle Viader Knowles, Kaisu Koski, Vicki S. Kwon, Patrick Mahon, Lathika Sritharan, and Mkrtich Tonoyan.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">For more information, visit the Immune Nations <a href="http://www.immunenations.com/events.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer;">website</a>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Events</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">Save the date! Virtual panel discussions will take place the last Thursday of each month from September – November.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">Details on participants and registration will be shared shortly.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUIxYIrlE9E" target="_blank">Vaccine Confidence, Fear, and Misinformation in an Age of COVID</a>: </i></span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thursday, September 30, 2021, 12-1:30pm EST</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2021/10/panel-ensuring-equitable-access-life.html">Canada and the World: Global Deployment and Lack of Access to Life-Saving Vaccines</a>: </i></span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thursday, October 28, 2021, 12-1:30pm EST</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDGVBjS8SaY" target="_blank">Research-Creation and Global Crisis: Interdisciplinarity, Creativity, and Collaboration</a>:</span> Thursday, November 25, 2021, 12-1:30pm EST</i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-29402116984034896042020-11-24T17:15:00.000-05:002022-05-24T14:45:09.566-04:00Debajehmujig Storytellers reflect on a pre-pandemic Shadowpox: The Cytokine StormDaniel Recollet Mejaki, Samantha Brennan and Bruce Naokwegijig reflect on the December 2018 workshop <i>Shadowpox: The Cytokine Storm</i>, at Debajehmujig Storytellers, Manitoulin Island, 26 October 2020.<div> <br />
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(We came full circle submitting the Covid-19 reboot, <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2020/04/shadowpox-stayhome-edition.html"><i>Shadowpox: #StayHome Edition</i></a>, to the WHO's <a href="https://www.talenthouse.com/i/united-nations-global-call-out-to-creatives-help-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19">Global Call Out To Creatives</a> last week.)<br />
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Here's a video from the <a href="http://rmg.on.ca/exhibitions/public-notice/" target="_blank">Robert McLaughlin Gallery</a> in Oshawa, Canada, where the game was part of <i><a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2018/10/shadowpox-antibody-politic-at-robert.html" target="_blank">Public Notice</a>, </i>a prescient 2018 exhibition looking at the ways "fear and disease go hand in hand." (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheRMG/videos/253339415540490/" target="_blank">Click here to watch the video in full resolution on Facebook</a>.)<br />
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<immune nations="">Actually, that wasn't <i>originally</i> the goal. It was only in the process of developing the game that I realized my design mindset was blind to one of the major reasons vaccines work: <a href="https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/herd-immunity" target="_blank">herd immunity</a>, a concept that has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidemiologist-britain-herd-immunity-coronavirus-covid-19" target="_blank">jumped to the forefront</a> of <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-pandemic-herd-immunity-uk-boris-johnson/608065/" target="_blank">debates about public health policy responses</a> to Covid-19. </immune><br />
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I'm half design geek, half drama nerd, so it was even more exciting when the storyworld expanded into its second, participatory-storytelling phase.<br />
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This 2019 video from York University's <a href="https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/02/07/interactive-videogame-highlights-the-impact-of-vaccine-decision-making/" target="_blank">Office for Research and Innovation</a> sets the game in the context of the wider research-creation project:<br />
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As the coronavirus pandemic turns all eyes to the <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/everything-you-need-to-know-about-coronavirus-vaccines/" target="_blank">development and testing of new vaccines</a>, the third and final phase of the<i> </i><i>Shadowpox </i>project will be an unusual new undergraduate course I'm developing to teach at York's <a href="https://ampd.yorku.ca/" target="_blank">School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design</a> in the 2020-21 academic year.<br />
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<i>Science & Fiction </i>(FILM 3841, Digital Culture) takes a mixed-reality approach to experiential education, blending academic study with dramatic composition and digital production.<br />
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In addition to more traditional ways of learning about the biology and sociology of immunization, students will <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2019/03/on-location-at-desmond-tutu-hiv.html" target="_blank">create videos</a> in which they play volunteers in the <a href="https://www.livescience.com/first-person-coronavirus-vaccine-clinical-trial.html" target="_blank">Phase I trial</a> of a vaccine against the shadowpox virus.<br />
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Designing a networked sci-fi narrative to build scientific, civic and media literacy, <i>Shadowpox</i> invites participants to grapple with one of the thorniest political dilemmas of public health: voluntary participation in the collective good.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Shadowpox</i> workshops at the <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2016/07/performance-capture-for-stage-film-and.html">Royal Academy of Dramatic Art</a> (photo: LaLaine Ulit-Destajo), <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2018/12/debajehmujig-catches-shadowpox.html">Debajehmujig Storytellers</a> (photo: Lynda Trudeau), and the <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2019/03/on-location-at-desmond-tutu-hiv.html">Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre</a> (photo: Jenn Warren)</td></tr>
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In the spirit of international collaboration that marks the <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/coronavirus-crisis-inspiring-unprecedented-global-research-effort" target="_blank">Covid-19 research effort</a> (as well as <i>Shadowpox</i> research-creation in the <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2016/07/performance-capture-for-stage-film-and.html" target="_blank">UK</a>, <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2018/12/debajehmujig-catches-shadowpox.html" target="_blank">Canada</a> and <a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2019/03/on-location-at-desmond-tutu-hiv.html" target="_blank">South Africa</a>), I'm working with York's <a href="https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2018/04/18/ten-york-university-professors-awarded-prestigious-cfi-research-awards/">Immersive Storytelling Lab</a> on an online complement to the course – one that will invite teachers and learners to explore the concepts and conflicts around vaccination through this co-created work of “citizen science fiction.”<br />
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It's hard right now to visualize what our world will look like by the end of the year, but I also can't picture anything I'd rather be doing than collaborating with young people to imagine and build a future of co-immunity.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-11355068423837145262020-04-18T16:23:00.000-04:002020-04-30T18:30:47.332-04:00Six O'Clock ShadowpoxCTV News Toronto catches Shadowpox! (If you can't see the video below, <a href="https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1941304&binId=1.3378527&playlistPageNum=1">try this link</a>.)<br />
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To play the game, visit: <a href="https://shadowpox.org/game/"><b>shadowpox.org/game</b></a><br />
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Big thanks to CTV health reporter <a href="https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/more/bios/pauline-chan-1.282328">Pauline Chan</a>, and to <a href="http://www.news.yorku.ca/">Anjum Nayyar</a> in York's media relations office, for making this piece possible.<br />
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Kudos too to Shadowpox technical director <a href="http://lalaineulitdestajo.com/">Lalaine Ulit-Destajo</a> for pulling together the behind-the-scenes footage in record time!<br />
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<b>Update, April 25:</b><br />
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My York colleague <a href="https://sensorium.ampd.yorku.ca/graduate-research-associates/">Justin Baillargeon</a> gave <i>Shadowpox: #StayHome Edition</i> a shout-out <i>en français</i> on Radio-Canada this weekend.<br />
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He mentions us at the 6-minute mark, alongside <i><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/04/15/teachers-video-games-coronavirus-education-remote-learning/">Assassin's Creed: Origins</a></i>, in a discussion of ways to learn through video games:<br />
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<a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/enfin-samedi/segments/chronique/167244/techno-baillargeon-jeux-video-industrie-confinement-pandemie-nintendo">https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/enfin-samedi/segments/chronique/167244/techno-baillargeon-jeux-video-industrie-confinement-pandemie-nintendo</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-25381135386247872452020-04-08T14:08:00.003-04:002021-07-30T12:39:22.051-04:00Shadowpox: #StayHome EditionOur new online game is live!<br />
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Play <i><a href="https://shadowpox.org/game/">Shadowpox: #StayHome Edition</a></i> here:<br />
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Check out the announcement from York University, <a href="https://news.yorku.ca/2020/04/08/online-video-game-brings-to-life-the-impact-of-staying-home-during-covid-19-pandemic/">"Online video game brings to life the impact of staying home during COVID-19 pandemic."</a><br />
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Why <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayHome?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StayHome</a>? "Shadowpox: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayHome?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StayHome</a> Edition", new online game by <a href="https://twitter.com/alisonhum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@alisonhum</a> and informed by data from <a href="https://twitter.com/gstrategylab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@gstrategylab</a> helps players visualize – in a fun and engaging way – the impact of deciding to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch 📺<br />
Read more: <a href="https://t.co/kfMcJlGADw">https://t.co/kfMcJlGADw</a> <a href="https://t.co/yQUy3Q7az0">pic.twitter.com/yQUy3Q7az0</a></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-8190769971790115542020-03-23T21:49:00.002-04:002023-11-29T21:55:48.034-05:00Left-Handed (2002)A student film I'm very proud of.<div><br /><i>The round hole...the square peg. If neither bends, which will break? <br /><br />A left-handed boy is just beginning school. In 1979 China, conformity is a matter of survival, so his teacher convinces his father to correct his 'problem' for the boy's own good. <br /><br />At home and at school, the boy struggles to understand his place in the world, guided only by the sage advice of an ambidextrous street-corner barber. <br /><br />Then one day, his father sprains his right wrist in a bicycle accident...</i><p style="text-align: left;"><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ml0n3OYs0J8?si=bDnVl-tj7Pwkeq9J" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Left-Handed
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border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Daniel Yan, Arthur Cheng, Xiao-Ming Yu, Xingfa Zhang, Fu Yu</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Crew</b><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Director: Baoqi Ye<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Producer: Alison Humphrey<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Screenwriter: Baoqi Ye & Alison Humphrey<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Editor: Peter Yu<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; 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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sound: Rob Turi<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Design: April Viczko</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; 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</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>About the Director</b><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Baoqi Ye graduated from Tongji University in Shanghai, receiving his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Industrial Design. Ye worked for Ogilvy & Mather Advertising Shanghai first as Art Director, then as Creative Group Head. He has created dozens of commercials for clients like Vespa Scooters, Siemens Home Appliances and Beck's Beer. The Beck's campaign won both Gold and Silver medals in the Times International Chinese Advertising Awards organized by Taiwan Times Newspaper. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
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Bring your lunch to the Loft! I'll be talking about my research-creation project, <i><a href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/search/label/Shadowpox">Shadowpox</a></i>, this Wednesday at <a href="https://sensorium.ampd.yorku.ca/" target="_blank">Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology</a> at York University. <a href="https://events.ampd.yorku.ca/event/winter-lunchtime-seminar-series-featuring-alison-humphrey/" target="_blank">Here's the flyer</a>:</div>
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Please join us for our next Winter Lunchtime Seminar Series featuring Cinema and Media Arts PhD Candidate and Sensorium Graduate Research Associate, <b>Alison Humphrey</b>!<br /><br /><strong>Alison Humphrey</strong><span class="m_688493313999868739apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span>plays with story across drama, digital media, and education. As a Vanier Scholar in Cinema and Media Arts at York University, her research-creation doctoral dissertation explores how a participatory science fiction storyworld, <em>Shadowpox</em>, can help young people build scientific, civic and media literacy by exploring immunization and vaccine hesitancy through a superhero metaphor.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The project’s first phase, full-body videogame, debuted during the 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva, where <em>The Lancet c</em>alled it “one of the most powerful and playful ways to illustrate both the individual and population-level implications of community immunity.” The second phase is a networked superhero narrative, <em>The Cytokine Storm</em>, co-created with young artists on three continents.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.3333px;">Lazola Nkelenjane (left) and Zanele Melapi experiment with solar-powered visual effects in a 2019 </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2019/03/on-location-at-desmond-tutu-hiv.html&source=gmail&ust=1582610288513000&usg=AFQjCNGIgPICT4bOSvzYlakuldFA6peDDA" href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/2019/03/on-location-at-desmond-tutu-hiv.html" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.3333px;" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #007c89;">Shadowpox </span></em><span style="color: #007c89;">workshop at the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.3333px;">, Masiphumelele, South Africa.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The third phase adapts this narrative into a Scalar-based online platform for a “courseplay”, a hybrid undergraduate seminar that weaves academic study with dramatic composition and digital production. </span><em style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Science & Fiction: Imagining Immunity in an Immersive Storyworld</em><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (which will be offered in York's department of Cinema and Media Arts in the coming academic year) takes a new approach to the concept of experiential education: </span><em style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">action refraction</em><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, where students use metaphoric world-building and digitally augmented role-play to explore one of the thorniest political dilemmas of public health: voluntary participation in the collective good.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For more, please see </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.alisonhumphrey.com/&source=gmail&ust=1582610288513000&usg=AFQjCNHlCbqYnWW8krWjI_oiLhdmCrdttQ" href="https://www.alisonhumphrey.com/search/label/Shadowpox" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank" title="http://www.alisonhumphrey.com/"><span style="color: #007c89;">www.alisonhumphrey.com</span></a><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><wbr style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></wbr><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.shadowpox.org/&source=gmail&ust=1582610288513000&usg=AFQjCNH2UpD-XT7iAVDWDZqfv9p5C8WCJw" href="http://www.shadowpox.org/" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank" title="http://www.shadowpox.org/"><span style="color: #007c89;">www.shadowpox.org</span></a><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div>
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I'll be presenting a talk on <i>Shadowpox</i> as part of the <a href="http://alumniandfriends.yorku.ca/connect/events/york-circle/upcoming-york-circle/">York Circle Lecture and Lunch</a> on Saturday, September 28 in the Life Sciences Building on York University's Keele Campus. The event is free – you can <a href="http://alumniandfriends.yorku.ca/connect/events/york-circle/upcoming-york-circle/">RSVP on the York Circle website</a>.<br />
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<b><i>Shadowpox</i>: How "Citizen Science Fiction" Can Boost Immunity</b></blockquote>
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Alison Humphrey will discuss how her research-creation project, <i>Shadowpox</i>, a participatory storyworld exploring immunization through a superhero metaphor, can help young people build scientific, civic and media literacy. A full-body <i>Shadowpox</i> videogame debuted during the 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva, where The Lancet called it “one of the most powerful and playful ways to illustrate both the individual and population-level implications of community immunity."</blockquote>
The other three presentations sound fascinating:<br />
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<b>Your Brain in Action</b><br />
<i>Denise Henriques - Professor, School of Kinesiology & Health Science</i> </blockquote>
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Humans surpass all other animals and robots when it comes to the diversity and malleability of movements produced — we are the world’s most versatile movers. Dr. Denise Henriques explains how the brain’s remarkable control systems make this possible. </blockquote>
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<b>Transgender Studies: What You Should Know & Why It Matters</b><br />
<i>Sheila L. Cavanagh - Associate Professor of Sociology</i> </blockquote>
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This presentation will introduce you to the burgeoning field of transgender studies. Transgender studies is based on the experiences of those who identify as transgender. Transgender is an umbrella term that includes everyone who is, in some way, gender diverse or gender non-conforming including, but not limited to, transsexuals, bi-genders, non-genders, Two-Spirits, etc. Transgender studies is not only concerned with the study of transphobia (discrimination against people who are differently gendered), but with questions relating to sex and gender embodiment. </blockquote>
And this one is especially timely the morning after Toronto's #FridaysForFuture Climate Strike. I only wish I weren't speaking at the same time!<br />
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<b>Is a 100% Renewable Energy Future Possible? Advances for Community Participation in a Low-Carbon Energy Transition</b><br />
<i>Dr. Christina Hoicka - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies</i> </blockquote>
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Over 80 percent of Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are energy related and Canadians are among the highest per capita energy users and GHG emitters. Under the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming by 2°C, Canada committed to a 30 percent reduction below 2005 levels of GHG emissions by 2030. However, scientists now caution there are clear benefits to keeping warming to 1.5°C, requiring an acceleration of carbon mitigation activities. This talk discusses the important factors to acceleration of a low-carbon energy transition, such as the innovation-diffusion of low-carbon energy innovations for communities, made up of individuals, households and organizations, to adopt, as well as diversity and inclusion in the energy and innovation sectors.</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-65067897388868848372019-08-23T17:04:00.002-04:002023-05-21T20:35:13.085-04:00The Biology of StoryI'm thrilled to be joining Amnon Buchbinder's rich and profound course <a href="https://www.biologyofstorycourse.com/">The Biology of Story</a> as a teaching assistant this autumn.<br />
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"What if there was magic? A mysterious power, hidden in plain sight, all around us, touching us, touched by us – daily. Wouldn't we want to learn how this magic works? How to work with it, consciously and effectively. How to ensure that it works for the benefit of ourselves, our communities, our world. How to use this magic to cast good spells – and to break the bad ones. </blockquote>
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Well, that magic, that mysterious power, does exist. Its name is Story."</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281633395293907969.post-85733252389472135492019-05-14T17:10:00.006-04:002023-07-31T21:50:45.133-04:00Communications, Transformations, FuturesI'm heading to the University of British Columbia on <a href="https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/">Unceded Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm) Territory</a> this week for the 2019 <a href="https://hastac2019.github.io/about.html">Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory conference</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://hastac.hcommons.org/about/">HASTAC</a> is "an interdisciplinary community of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and technologists changing the way we teach and learn." This year's conference theme is <a href="https://hastac2019.github.io/about.html#conference-theme" target="_blank">"Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education,"</a> and there are some inspiring plenary speakers lined up, including <a href="https://www.leannesimpson.ca/">Leanne Betasamosake Simpson</a>, <a href="https://cmagazine.com/issues/136/kinstillatory-gathering">Karyn Recollet</a>, and <a href="https://vimeo.com/334074184">Elizabeth LaPensée</a>.<br />
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I'll be part of a panel titled <i>Communications, Transformations, Futures</i>, presenting a talk on "Building Co-Immunity in Wiikwemkoong and Masiphumelele: Participatory Science
Fiction to Inoculate the Civic Imagination." If you're in Vancouver on Friday, come say hi!<br />
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