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FACT invites you to Choose Your Own Adventure, a day-long symposium that delves into how games offer unique approaches to world-building, agency and collective experience.
Choose Your Own Adventure
Marking the closing weekend of Art Plays Games, an exhibition of games created by artists and independent developers, we’ll consider the implications of encouraging audience agency within artworks and how artists rethink control, gamification, and decision-making processes.
FACT Liverpool
88 Wood Street
L1 4DQ
Studio/Lab
This symposium brings together a diverse group of artists, performers, game designers, critical thinkers, and industry professionals to explore the compelling storytelling potential of games. Players include Babeworld, Babak Ahteshamipour, David Blandy, Jeremy Chen, Aleena Chia, Marijam Didžgalvytė, Anne Duffau, Jon Edgley, Zein Majali and Jazmin Morris.
While the gaming industry's revenue and reach surpass other entertainment sectors, its capacity for experimentation and play – both competitive and imaginative – remains immeasurable. Discussions will also address issues of diversity and inclusion in avatar representation, exploring what the industry can learn from the arts.
Working in collaboration with cultural producer Anne Duffau, the symposium includes the forthcoming edition of Always Coming Home, a series of events by curatorial platform A—Z that further the ideas of immersion, speculative worlds and conscious listening. Previous iterations have been held at Iklectik (2023) and Matt’s Gallery (2024).
This symposium is suitable for 18+ and takes place in Studio/Lab, our dedicated space for creative experimentation that nurtures a vibrant community of artists, researchers, and technologists.
Tickets
Tickets for Choose Your Own Adventure are free.
To offer flexibility, the day is split into three sessions. Attendees are welcome to join for all or part of the day. Please book here
Rerendering and Reflecting Reality
Conversation
13:00 - 14:00
Artists David Blandy and Jazmin Morris come together for an in-conversation to discuss decision-making, agency, representation, worldbuilding, and character and story design.
Ahead of the conversation, watch a short film by interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and musician Babak Ahteshamipour.
Jazmin Morris is a Creative Computing Artist and Educator based in Leeds. Her practice considers the historical trajectories of modern technology and critically speculates on the landscape of human-computer interaction.
David Blandy is an artist examining global structures of control and networks of resistance, in areas as diverse as ecology, history, science and arenas of play. He makes videos, games, sound and ephemera, deconstructing forms to put them back together again.
Babak Ahteshamipour is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in mining and materials science engineering. His practice is based on the collision of the virtual vs the actual, aimed at correlating topics from cyberspace to ecology and politics to identity, exploring them via gaming and online subcultures with a focus on themes of coexistence and simultaneity.
Accessibility
We are committed to providing accessible experiences.
This symposium takes place at FACT Liverpool, 88 Wood Street, L1 4DQ.
Level access pavement to FACT is available on Wood Street and there is ramp access on Fleet Street. All areas inside our building - including screens and galleries - are accessible to visitors with limited mobility, including wheelchair users. There is also a lift that serves all floors in the main foyer next to the Box Office. We have accessible toilets on all floors of the building. Disabled parking spaces can be found close by on Wood Street and Fleet Street.
This symposium takes place on the third floor which is accessible by lift only. We have a friendly team of staff that can support you with navigating around the building, and answer any questions you have on the day. If you would like to speak to us before the event, please email info@fact.co.uk or call us on 0151 707 4444 between 11:00 - 18:00, Wednesday to Sunday.