PLAY17 - Creative Gaming Festival 2017 » People

Agnes Kruse

vera marie — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:32:46 +0000

Alexandra Schmidt

Karin — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:57:31 +0000

Alexandra Schmidt is doing her Master’s teaching degree at the University of Hamburg right now with English and Biology as her main subjects. Before she enrolled in media engineering at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. The change of subject didn’t distract her from her enthuasiasm in audio-visual and digtal media. She’s mostly interested in the experimental application of audio-visual or digital media in diverse areas of school education. Within the film project “Film dir einen!” she had the opportunity to gather first-hand experiences in implementing audio-visual media in schools – now it’s onto the digital fields.

Regarding games, her favorite ones are old school point-and-click adventures like “TKKG” and “Pilot Brothers”. By participating in the projects of the Intiative Creative Gaming she hopes to get some input for transferring games to school classes.

Alistair Aitcheson

Karin — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:26:18 +0000

Independent game developer based in Bristol, UK. Alistair Aitcheson specialises in games and installations that encourage physical activity, social interaction and performance. His projects have won awards at the GameCity and IndieCade festivals, and been award-nominated at A MAZE. in Berlin.

Alistair’s latest project, an interactive stage show, draws from his experience with improv comedy as well as his history as a creator of surprising and unconventional games.

Aljoscha Jelinek

vera marie — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:14:14 +0000

Amelie Künzler

vera marie — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:00:03 +0000

André Mücke

wpadmin — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:13:00 +0000

Andreas Hedrich

Valentina — Sun, 14 May 2017 14:08:40 +0000

As the initiator and spokesperson of the Initiative Creative Gaming, Andreas Hedrich has been pleading for the creative use of video games in education and to make digital gaming culture visible and come alive. He teaches media eduaction and active media relations at the Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg. Furthermore, he is chairman for Mediennetz Hamburg e. V., member of jaf – Verein für medienpädagogische Praxis Hamburg e. V., speaker of GMK-Landesgruppe Hamburg and associate of Frische Medien. As media pedagog and media producer it is important for him to be responsible for projects that highlight the creative use of media and their ability to be used by everybody as a medium for communication.

If asked what his favorite game is, he answers “Riding a bicycle in my head”.

Anita Sarkeesian

Christiane — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:51:55 +0000

Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning media critic and the creator and executive director of Feminist Frequency, an educational nonprofit that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Her work focuses on deconstructing the stereotypes and tropes associated with women in popular culture as well as highlighting issues surrounding the targeted harassment of women in online and gaming spaces.

She has been a panelist at the United Nations and been a guest speaker at various fan, media and technology conferences including XOXO, The Media Evolution Conference, Women in the World and GeekGirlCon.
Anita has been interviewed and featured in publications such as Wired, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Colbert Report.
Anita was named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2015 and was the recipient of the 2014 Game Developers Choice Ambassador Award. In 2016 Anita was awarded an honorary PhD from The New School in New York City.

Anna Postels

Karin — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:33:55 +0000

Anne Sauer

vera marie — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:57:25 +0000