Event Description
Celebrate the last day of classes and join informal
cross-disciplinary conversations with Drexel faculty and professional
staff over drinks and refreshments at this quarter's ScholarSip event.
Frank Lee, PhD,
will provide a brief presentation at the event titled, "Buildings as
Game Tokens: Exploring the Interaction of Physical Spaces and Digital
Games." For the past two years, Frank has completed successful public
art installations in Philadelphia, "hacking" with permission the LED
lights of the Cira Centre Building, to create interactive games of Pong last year and Tetris this year.
In this talk, he will describe an aesthetic, "a shared moment," that he
had hoped to achieve for Philadelphians with these skyscraper game
projects. In addition, he will put forth a larger vision for Urban Games
that seeks to use cities and cityscapes as physical tokens in
large-scale physical/digital games and interactive storytelling.
Frank Lee is an Associate Professor of Digital Media in Antoinette
Westphal College of Media Arts and Design as well as an Affiliated
Associate Professor in Psychology, Computer Science, and Biomedical
Engineering. Lee co-founded Drexel's Game Design Program in 2008 and is
also the founding director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio at Drexel.
ScholarSip is hosted by Drexel University Libraries with guidance
from a faculty planning committee. For more information about ScholarSip
or to suggest a future topic, please contact: Jenny James Lee at
215.571.4095 or jaj92@drexel.edu. |
