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Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) is an interdisciplinary centre for research / creation in game studies and design, digital culture and interactive art.

We are located on the downtown campus of Concordia University, in the Milieux Institute for Research The research centre in Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) is an interdisciplinary collaboration platform for research/creation in game studies and design, digital culture and interactive art. Based at Concordia University in Montreal, TAG brings together scholars, artists, designers, engineers and

students from across faculties and disciplines. Participants are from a variety of universities, the game development industry and community based groups. At the heart of TAG is a shared interest and concern with digital games as exemplary objects for cultural research, artistic creation, technical innovation and social mediation, all in the context of an expanding information society and the changing fabric of everyday life. TAG has a triple mandate to:

* Initiate and support collaborative research/creation of projects in digital game studies and design, both at the student and faculty levels.
* Build bridges and establish partnerships with games related industries, independent game developers and international researchers and artists.
* Actively explore and develop viable models of interdisciplinary research collaboration. TAG resources include an expanding and developing network of postdoctoral fellows and graduate students from over 20 different faculties, but also collaborators from the game industry and community. We have a research/creation ‘collaboratory’ affiliated with the Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technology, a digital game playspace, as well as tools and equipment for game and gameplay analysis and design. Financial and infrastructural support for university-based independent game design is also offered, but also integration with undergraduate and graduate degree requirements in several departments across the fine arts and arts and science faculties at Concordia. TAG also regularly hosts colloquia and social/networking events.

08/30/2022

08/29/2022

04/21/2022

🎨 FREE GAME ART WORKSHOP ONLINE 🎮

Join us on April 29 at 1PM to LEVEL UP your illustration skills with award winning art director Anna Hollinrake from Fall Guys!

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In this talk, and workshop, you will learn how to create art styles and visual direction for video games through harnessing emotions.

11/17/2021

11/09/2021

🎉 THIS THURSDAY AT 10AM 🎉

TAG is happy to introduce its new online speaker series, Rethinking Playfulness! Join us in listening to perspectives on game design, playfulness and storytelling!

Our first guest speaker is
➡ Oonya Kempadoo ⬅
a multidisciplinary artist, activist, researcher, and educator. Oonya will come talk to us about her journey on November 11, 2021 at 10am EST on Zoom. (Please RSVP for event link)

🌎🌍 WHICH WORLD OF MINE 🌎🌍

“A talk about my creative journey and the worlds I inhabit, pass through and navigate. From Guyana, South America to Amsterdam, Europe, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada to Montreal, I will discuss my training and work from Carnival arts to literature to multimedia.” – Oonya Kempadoo

🔹 DATE: Thursday, November 11th – 10am EST
🔹 LENGTH: 45 mins + 15 mins live Q&A
🔹 LOCATION: Zoom
🔹 RSVP:

Introducing our new online speaker series! Join us in listening to perspectives on game design, playfulness & storytelling across the globe!

11/03/2021

TAG Director Martin French playing Space Invaders on our arcade machine (courtesy of Darren Wershler).

Merriam Webster, please consider this our official submission for illustrating the word RESEARCH.

10/06/2021

On today's schedule: taking profile pictures using Game Boy camera.

09/21/2021

Jason Lewis is a digital media theorist, poet and software designer. He was invited to become a Fellow of the The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) / La Société royale du Canada (SRC) in 2021, a position that recognizes “distinguished Canadians from all branches of learning who have made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life.”
Lewis holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary (Tier 1), and he is director of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures and co-director of the Indigenous Futures Research Centre.
He’s also a member of Hexagram-Concordia, the TAG Research Center and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art.

09/18/2021

Humour and Games Episode 2 is out now!

In it Scott, Andrei and Marc look at what makes humour unique in the context of games. 👏👏👏
Featured Speakers: Dr. Pippin Barr, Osama Dorias, Dr. Kishonna Gray, narF, Dr. Dan Staines, Kyler Kelly Tan and Eva Toker.

Links to check it out on the TAG website:

Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) is an interdisciplinary centre for research/ creation in game studies and design, digital culture and interactive art

09/10/2021

Some of our wonderful students created a new podcast series examining how video games and humour intersect.

The first episode is out now, featuring: Osama Dorias, Dr. Kishonna Gray, Dr. Brendan Keogh, Dietrich Squinkifer, Dr. Dan Staines and Ida Toft.

Check it out and stay tuned, for new episodes every week on Fridays.

Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) is an interdisciplinary centre for research/ creation in game studies and design, digital culture and interactive art

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1515 Street Catherine St. West, EV 11/435
Montreal, QC
H3G2W1

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