{"id":4308,"date":"2025-08-13T20:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:45:34","slug":"algorithmic-millennium-creating-staged-digital-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4308","title":{"rendered":"Algorithmic Millennium: Creating Staged &amp; Digital Games &#8211; Feb 4, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1a7d83f386b4ab25296343f90\/images\/59eab206-3614-981f-5f0b-c6219a1655c5.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Winter Keynote Lecture<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Natalie Tin Yin Gan &amp; Remy Siu<br>of Hong Kong Exile &amp; Sunset Visitor<br>in conversation with Dr. Doug Eacho<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, 5-7pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audio recording of the presentation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2152675170&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-143869556\" title=\"BMOLab\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">BMOLab<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-143869556\/algorithmic-millennium-creating-staged-digital-games-hong-kong-exiles-at-bmo-lab\" title=\"Algorithmic Millennium: Creating Staged &amp; Digital Games - Hong Kong Exiles at BMO Lab\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Algorithmic Millennium: Creating Staged &amp; Digital Games &#8211; Hong Kong Exiles at BMO Lab<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>What does experimental performance have to do with video games? How do emerging media provide new landscapes for diasporic narratives? How can live and digital bodies perform and resist algorithmic control? The BMO Lab\u2019s winter keynote will explore these questions and more with two of Canada\u2019s most exciting young artists: Natalie Tin Yin Gan and Remy Siu, of the multimedia performance collective Hong Kong Exile and the video game company Sunset Visitor. Their conversation with Dr. Doug Eacho aims to explore transpacific politics, vocal performance, motion capture, the state of electronic dance music, uses of allegory, anime fashion\u2026 at least. &nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>Since 2011, Hong Kong Exile\u2019s interdisciplinary works such as&nbsp;<em>Foxconn Frequency (no. 3)<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>No Foreigners<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Visitors from Far Away to the State Machine<\/em>&nbsp;have performed across Canada and in New York, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Singapore.<br>&nbsp;<br>Sunset Visitor \u659c\u967d\u904e\u5ba2 \u2019s debut narrative science-fiction game,&nbsp;<em>1000xRESIST<\/em>&nbsp;(2024), appeared on nearly 80 \u2018game of the year\u2019 lists from major outlets like NPR, Polygon, and Paste. The game was praised as \u201ca revolution in storytelling\u201d (<em>IGN<\/em>), \u201cone of the best stories in the medium\u201d (<em>Paste<\/em>), and \u201can extraordinary piece of work \u2013 one that places diasporic trauma front and centre\u201d (<em>Eurogamer<\/em>). It was nominated for three awards at the Independent Game Festival and seven Canadian Game Awards.<br>&nbsp;<br>Natalie Tin Yin Gan \u984f\u5a77\u598d is an independent choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and writer. Remy Siu \u856d\u9038\u5357 is a composer and new media artist. Both work on the unceded, ancestral, and occupied lands of the Coast Salish peoples.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter Keynote Lecture&nbsp;&nbsp;Natalie Tin Yin Gan &amp; Remy Siuof Hong Kong Exile &amp; Sunset Visitorin conversation with Dr. Doug Eacho Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, 5-7pm Audio recording of the presentation: BMOLab \u00b7 Algorithmic Millennium: Creating Staged &amp; Digital Games &#8211; Hong Kong Exiles at BMO Lab What does experimental performance have to do with video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog-posts","7":"category-events","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}