I DIG ATARI: A GAME AFTER BOOK LAUNCH
May 3 // 6-8:30
Babycastles Gallery // 137 W. 14th St.
email RSVP@BABYCASTLES.COM for tickets
Join in to celebrate the release of Raiford Guins’ video game history and preservation book GAME AFTER: A CULTURAL STUDY OF VIDEO GAME AFTERLIFE (MIT Press, 2014). Following a reading, Raiford will present on the mystery of the Atari Landfill and the recent excavation project in Alamogordo, NM, which he attended as an on-site expert.
Babycastles Gallery // 137 W. 14th St.
email RSVP@BABYCASTLES.COM for tickets
Join in to celebrate the release of Raiford Guins’ video game history and preservation book GAME AFTER: A CULTURAL STUDY OF VIDEO GAME AFTERLIFE (MIT Press, 2014). Following a reading, Raiford will present on the mystery of the Atari Landfill and the recent excavation project in Alamogordo, NM, which he attended as an on-site expert.
Raiford Guins is an Associate Professor of Culture and Technology within the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at Stony Brook University. Aside from almost ten years of writing on video game history and culture, Raiford has been a leading force in preserving the legacy of William A. Higinbotham and his 1958 analog computer game Tennis for Two. Additionally, Raiford is Founding Principal Editor with the Journal of Visual Culture.
Babycastles Gallery is an exhibition space for contemporary independent video games in New York.
Copies of Game After will be available for purchase. Follow @Sierra_Offline for event updates and previews.
