An interview in which the distinguished scholar, artist, and game designer, Mary Flanagan discusses her research on art and play, the critical play game design model, and her most recent work—coauthored with Mikael Jakobsson—about colonialist board games.
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December 01, 2023
Flanagan combines haikus written collaboratively with her AI "Kay" to accompany the monumental artwork in the current exhibition opening on Dec. 3, 2023.
September 20, 2023
Prof. Mary Flanagan will be part of the Academic Panel for this inaugural event. The panel will be available via livestream on Sept. 21 at 5 p.m. EST (find link on this article).
June 16, 2023
Film and media studies professor Mary Flanagan explores alternative war games that express different ways to see global challenges.
March 15, 2023
Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games (2023) with Mikael Jakobsson has been released from MIT Press
November 04, 2022
The Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities talks with the "Houston Chronicle" about ensuring that a diversity of people are shown in art generated by artificial intelligence. An exhibit Flanagan has at Rice University in Houston is also mentioned.
October 18, 2022
This exhibition will run until December 2022 at The Moody Center's Urban Impressions exhibition at Rice University.
June 30, 2022
The Houston Chronicle writes that "Artificial intelligence is the primary material for all of the works in her first Houston show" about Professor Mary Flanagan's latest exhibition, which runs through July 9, 2022, at Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, in Houston, TX.
May 05, 2022
Artist Mary Flanagan's HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS solo exhibition features a haunting/mesmerizing book of computational poetry, a compassionate digital memorial and a daydreaming artificial intelligence. May 13 - July 2, 2022, Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston, TX.
November 01, 2021
Mary Flanagan shows how games can be collaborative through giant Atari 2600 joystick.