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Summer Board Games and Picnic

June 30, 2012 13:00

Date Star-blue1 Published: May 17, 2012 17:04 by Furtherfield Gallery

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Furtherfield Gallery
McKenzie Pavilion
Finsbury Park, London, N4 2NQ

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To accompany Invisible Forces, Furtherfield invites all gallery visitors to take part in a programme of public play, games, making and discussion led by alert and energetic artists, techies, makers and thinkers: Class Wargames, The Hexists, Dave Miller, Olga P Massanet and Thomas Aston.

\\Summer Board Games and Picnic with Class Wargames\\

ABOUT THE EVENT:

[WORKSHOP]Saturday 30 June 2012, 1-5pm

Join us for a talk about gaming the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution led by Richard Barbrook and Fabian of Class Wargames. The event will kick off with a picnic in the park and continue with an afternoon of collective playing of Richard Borg's Commands & Colors, a Napoleonic-era military strategy game.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Class Wargames is an avant-garde movement of artists, activists, and theoreticians engaged in the production of works of ludic subversion in the bureaucratic society of controlled consumption.?The members of Class Wargames are Dr. Richard Barbrook, author and senior lecturer in the Department of Politics & IR at the University of Westminster; Rod Dickinson,  artist and lecturer at University of the West of England; Alex Veness, artist and co-founder of Class Wargames;Ilze Black, media artist and producer; Fabian Tompsett, initiator of London Psychogeographical Association and author; Mark Copplestone, author and figure designer; Lucy Blake, Software developer; Stefan Lutschinger, lecturer, artist and researcher; and Elena Vorontsova, World Radio Network and journalist.

 

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