Masterclass Holly Gramazio
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PUBLIC PLAY
Masterclass by Holly Gramazio (UK)
About Public Play
There's a whole world out there to play in. So how can we get people to join in? What are the tricks and techniques that we can use to create play experiences designed to be stumbled across in public space? And what are our responsibilities if we're making a game for a shared space? Learn about existing work in this area, try out some new ideas and discuss the wider context of public-space playful work in this masterclass.
In the masterclass the participants will learn more about the working practice of Holly Gramazio, as half of Matheson Marcault, and be working together on a big visual outdoor playful artwork.
About Holly Gramazio
Holly Gramazio is a game designer with a particular interest in site-specific work and physicality. As Lead Game Designer at Hide&Seek she led on projects including The New Year Games, a street game for 12,000 players; Castle, Forest, Island, Sea, an online game for the Open University exploring philosophy and reason in a crumbling castle; and 99 Tiny Games, an installation of low-tech games across every borough of London.
Working independently she’s created installations like Games for Places, painting rulesets on sites across East Durham; How To Be A Blackbird, an online narrative about the life of a blackbird in the city, and Hotel Room, in which players simultaneously navigate a real-life hotel room and an interactive story about the room. She started designing games after completing a PhD in online fiction in 2008, and also curates game events, including the Sandpit, a regular playtesting night for experimental work that ran for five years.
Holly Gramazio works often with Sophie Sampson as half of Matheson Marcault. Matheson Marcault works with culture, history and physical space. They use game design to engage people with places and ideas. Their work fits in museums, in public squares, at arts festivals, and online.
They focus on the words, play, installations, and interactive history.
