Conspiracy Plays - Hugh Davies on the temptations of alternate reality

Episode 1 of "The Exploits of Play" is an interview with Dr. Hugh Davies who is an artist, curator, and researcher. Working across digital media, academic scholarship, and creative practice, he explores the social, cultural, and political dimensions of art and technology. He’s written two books on game culture and ethnographies of play and is currently a research fellow with a focus on Chinese Platform Studies at RMIT in Melbourne.

"The Exploits of Play" is a 10-episode, interview-driven podcast hosted by Max Haiven and produced by Halle Frost for Weird Economies. We examine what play may have lured us into participating in these games we know we cannot win and where on the fringes play is a tool of resistance changing the game itself.

For full transcript and show notes please visit weirdeconomies.com.

Credits:

Founder and organizer of Weird Economies: Bahar Noorizadeh

Host: Max Haiven

Producer: Halle Frost

Sound editor: Faye Harvey

Sponsor: Canada Council for the Arts

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