Podcasts by Playthink

Eric Zimmerman at Playthink: 9/15/20 from 2020-09-16T01:30

On this episode of Playthink, Eric Zimmerman and Tracy Fullerton discuss the recently released “The Infinite Playground,” the final book by visionary game designer Bernie De Koven, written with Hol...

Bonnie Ruberg at Playthink: 9/10/19 from 2019-09-11T00:37

Bonnie Ruberg's work explores gender and sexuality in digital media and digital cultures with a focus on queerness and video games. On this episode of Playthink, Ruberg discusses their book "Video ...

Liz Ryerson at Playthink: 4/23/19 from 2019-04-24T00:30

Liz Ryerson is a composer, critic and occasional game designer and podcaster. On this episode of Playthink, Liz and USC Games professor Jane Pinckard discuss her work across games, journalism and t...

Paul Slocum at Playthink: 3/26/19 from 2019-03-26T19:00

Paul Slocum is an artist, software developer, curator, and musician based in Pasadena, California. He is director of a new media art gallery called And/Or Gallery that exhibits digital art and deve...

Magalis Videaux-Martinez at Playthink: 2/26/19 from 2019-02-26T19:52

Videaux-Martinez's work lives at the intersection of experience design, immersive storytelling and experiential learning. Here, she discusses her newest project the Imagination Lab, a learning and ...

Capital W at Playthink: 11/20/18 from 2018-11-21T00:17

Capital W is an immersive theater group run by Lauren Ludwig and Monica Miklas and well known for its award-winning project Hamlet-Mobile, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet staged in a cargo va...

Brian Upton at Playthink: 10/16/18 from 2018-10-17T00:30

Brian Upton is an internationally-known game designer and game theorist with over 20 years of professional experience in the game industry.  For 14 years he worked as a senior game designer at Sony...

Adam Badawy at Playthink: 9/18/18 from 2018-09-19T02:36

Adam Badawy is a computational social scientist and a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department and Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC). Work...

February 2018 Playthink - Play for Justice from 2018-02-07T02:00

Join us at 6:00pm on Tuesday, February 6th, in SCI 201 at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a discussion about games and play as art and culture. The theme for this Playthink salon i...

November 2017 Playthink - Childhood from 2017-11-08T01:47

Please join us at 6:00pm on Tuesday, November 7th in SCI 201 at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a discussion about games and play as art and culture. The theme for this Playthink salon is “...

April 2016 Playthink - Bringing Games to Life from 2016-04-26T00:45

Please join us 6:00pm on Monday, April 25th in SCI 201 at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a discussion about games and play as art and culture. The theme for this Playthink salon is “Bringi...

March 2016 Playthink - Dress Rehearsal from 2016-03-08T01:42

Please join us 6:00pm on Monday, March 7th in SCI 201 at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a discussion about games and play as art and culture. The theme for this Playt...

January 2016 Playthink - Something New from 2016-01-13T01:40

Please join us 6:00pm on Monday, January 25th in SCI 201 at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a discussion about games and play as art and culture. Inspired by the ...

November 2015 Playthink - Identity from 2015-11-10T01:37

Please join us 6:00pm on Monday, November 9th, in SCI 201 at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a discussion about games and play as art and culture. In this meeting...

April 2015 Playthink - Celebration from 2015-04-22T00:35

Please join us at 6:00pm on Tuesday, April 21st, in SCI 201 at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a discussion about games and play as art and culture. On this, the occas...

March 2015 Playthink - Sports and eSports from 2015-03-25T01:00

Please join us at 6:00pm on Tuesday, March 24th, in SCI 201 at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a discussion about games and play as art and culture. This installment of the Playthink will d...

December 2014 Playthink - Pervasive Games, LARPs, and Street Games from 2014-12-03T02:00

Please join us at 6:30pm this Tuesday, December 2nd at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a discussion about the intersections of play, narrative, and space. This installment of the Playthink ...

October 2014 Playthink - Games and the Museum from 2014-10-15T01:00

Hi folks,

We’re continuing this semester’s roll-call of great ‘playthink’ salon events next Tuesday, with a special edition of playthink subtitled ‘Games and the Museum’.

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