John Bruneau
Artist, Educator, Curator, Coder. CV (pdf)teaching: Game Studies at SJSU
playing: Limbo, Jamestown, Bastion, Minecraft, WoW
hacking: Myself
contact: John [at] artfail [dot] com
Big Reality
Not a Hero (In the Traditional Sense) and Demand Player Sovereignty will be showing in 319 Scholes in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY as part of Big Reality. "Big Reality proposes that contemporary everyday life seamlessly integrates elements of fantasy and play through consumer technology and networked media." Big Reality opens March 15th and runs till the 29th. Ill be there opening night, so if you are in NYC stop by, say "hi".
Demand Player Sovereignty
There and Back Again
Demand Player Sovereignty (DPS) was a hit at ISEA 2011 in Istanbul Turkey. The highpoint for me was presenting at the Nuru Ziya Suites after our workshop run. A lot of new media artists also dealing with issues of politics came to talk to us after we presented. There was much smoozing. Third Faction was subsequently asked to write an article on the future of gaming for Turkish Air’s Skylife Magazine. Currently I am working on documentation for the event. The DPS documentary short will be premiering in NYC in March. More details soon.
Learn to Play / Craft & Punishment Artist Chats
I finally finished video work on some of our favorite exhibiting artists.
Brenda Brathwaite
Exhibited Train and Síochán Leat (The Irish Game) in Learn to Play and Learn to Play Too respectively, talks to De Anza College students
Jonathan Blow
Exhibited Braid in Craft & Punishment, talks to students at the San Jose State University Game Developers Club
Third Faction is going to Istanbul !
The Third Faction is an artist collective I cofounded that acts as an anti-war humanitarian activist group inside the World of Warcraft. Our last project /hug was pretty successful and was shown in the Laguna Art Museum as part of WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon in 2009. Now our new as yet unnamed project was just accepted into ISEA 2011. I am super excited but also freaking out a bit. Everything is bigger, crazier, further and there are more of us to coordinate. But that's what awesome is right?
2 Shows!
Learn to Play Too
and Craft & Punishment
John Bruneau is pretty burnt out but the fruits of my labor are two awesome art shows happening concurrently. Sweetness...
Craft & Punishment, The Art and Craft in Game Design, Presented by Learn to Play
Jan 31 – Feb 24, 2011
Craft & Punishment, a new show from the creators of Learn to Play, asks the questions: Is there a dialog between art and craft in game design? Where does such a distinction lead? Is digital pain the new pleasure?
Evergreen Valley College Art Gallery
3095 Yerba Buena Road
San Jose, CA
Learn to Play Too, an expansion of the ground-breaking Learn to Play.
January 4 – February 24, 2011
Due to the overwhelmingly positive response, and to the great interest from campus and community to develop projects and programming directly related to the exhibition, we are offering Learn to Play Too.
Euphrat Museum of Art
21250 Stevens Creek Blvd
Cupertino, CA
