KATIE SALEN

• Saturday, 3:00PM UT Campus [ACES Bldg Room 2.302, 24th and Speedway on the UT campus]

Katie will present a lecture and screening on some of the world's finest (and strangest) examples of machinima. This is a true melding of digital gaming and cinema, though the result rarely fits either category smoothly. Maybe the technology is trying to tell us something?

Katie Salen is a freelance game designer and writer interested in the connections between game design, interactivity, and play. She is currently working with the XEN division of Microsoft to develop an animated storytelling experience distributed through Xbox Live! and is collaborating on the design of a massively multiplayer urban game for the citizens of St. Paul and Minneapolis. In addition to working as a freelance game designer for gameLab, she writes a bi-monthly column on games for RES magazine and has recently completed Rules of Play, a textbook on game design co-authored with Eric Zimmerman (MIT Press, fall 2003). She has curated several programs of game-related content for the Walker Museum of Art and the Lincoln Center in New York, and has taught game design at NYU, Parsons School of Design, and N.C. State University.

All GAMES WITHOUT BORDERS events are free and open to the public.