Jessica Thompson, researcher in Fine Arts and faculty member of the Stratford School and the Games Institute, received an Early Researcher Award (ERA). Provided by the provincial government, an ERA funds researchers and allows them to establish a research team.
It is our great pleasure to formally announce that Dr. Neil Randall has been reappointed to serve as GI Executive Director for another five-year term.
Neil’s reappointment follows a period of exciting changes at the GI which has seen an Arts-based centre graduate to one of eight university-level multidisciplinary centres and institutes.
To start his new term, Neil (along with the rest of our members) will be busy with GI’s five-year review and renewal by the Senate coming up in 2020.
Pamela Maria Schmidt, Experimental Digital Media Master's student, will be taking over our Instagram from Nov. 28 - Dec. 3 to bring us along on her travels to Prague for the "Monsters: an Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project" conference organized by Progressive Connexions.
Nicholas Hobin, PhD candidate in English Language Literature, will be presenting at SLSA 2019 in Irvine, California, an annual conference focused on intersections between Literature, Science, and Art.
Hobin presented research from his most recent paper "The Creature is Ready", which focuses on the representation of animals in the game Red Dead Redemption 2 with respect to the unusual embodiment of animals.
Tina Chan, Public Health and Health Systems MSc graduate, will be running a workshop at Pushing the Paradigm at the University of Toronto. Pushing the Paradigm focuses on broadening our understanding of mental health.
GI alum Séamas Weech, postdoc researcher in neuroscience and virtual reality, presented at SIGGRAPH 2019. SIGGRAPH is an annual conference for academia and industry in Los Angeles which focuses on global innovations, including what's next for computer graphics, animation, VR, gaming and new technologies.