procedural feminism

PROCEDURAL FEMINISMplaying with gender and generative systems

gillian smithnortheastern university

@gillianmsmith

what is a game?

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creative

simulation

pasttime

activity

can procedures be feminist?

michael cook amanda phillips tanya short

authorship and aesthetics

Design ControlGame Content

andGames!

methods for asserting control

flickr: Amarand Agasi

formal theory of content

what is a platformer level?

what is a person?

“Females of the Realms can excel in any area they wish, and areeasily the equal of their male counterparts in every skill or respect.”

formal theory of design

Joris Dormans

Design ControlGame Content

andGames!

inserting cultural context?

communicating meaning

embedding meaning

http://www.icongenerators.net/pixelavatar.html

feminist computational modeling?

Courtney Toder, work-in-progress

ai and empathy

Star Trek: The Next Generation

avoiding big data

making little psychopaths

acknowledge your choices

CYOA, a visualization of choose your own adventure novels, samizdat

can procedures be feminist?

but…

we should be

gillian smith @gillianmsmith http://www.sokath.com

procedural feminism

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