On December 5th, Paolo Ruffino, and Gemma FantaccI will discuss all things machinima with Professor Tracy Harwood
TracyHarwoodis Professor of Digital Culture at De Montfort University and co-host of international podcast And Now For Something Completely Machinima.Tracy has been involved in the machinima community for more than fifteen years and directed the First European Machinima Festival in 2007, held in Leicester, UK. She has written papers about the roles and impacts of the community and the medium and is co-author of the 2021 bookPioneers in Machinima: The Grassroots of Virtual Productionwith Ben Grussi, the original community manager of Machinima.com. Her current interest is on emerging technologies used in virtual production and their impacts on related various industry sectors.
Gemma Fantacci is a PhD candidate in Visual and Media Studies at IULM University, in Milan. Her research focuses on the relationship between counter-gaming practices and the Situationist International. She is the Communication Manager of the Milan Machinima Festival and the co-founder of VRAL.
Paolo Ruffino, Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, chair of DiGRA Italia and author of Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture (2018, Goldsmiths Press), will be moderating the event.
Please register via Eventbrite. Zoom link will be shared nearer to the event. The event starts at 6pm Italian time and will be followed by Q&A. By joining the online event you agree to be video recorded. The recording will be shared on DiGRA Italia’s website and YouTube channel.
This event is the first DiGRA Italia Talk: a series of online events connecting Italian game studies scholars with international researchers.
