Richard Barbrook: "Games for the Many and Class Wargames"
Department: Film and Media Studies
Date and Time: May 9, 2018 | 3:00 PM-4:30 PMEvent Location: HIB 100
Event Details
The Department of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine is pleased to announce a Guest Lecture by
Richard Barbrook: "Games for the Many and Class Wargames" - Wednesday, May 9th at 3pm, HIB 100
Richard Barbrook is the digital guru of the UK Labour Party. He helped create the Corbyn Run game (in support of UK Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn) which went viral just before the 2017 UK general election. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster.
Richard Barbrook's guest appearance at UC Irvine is also supported by the Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games, IVECG - http://ivecg.uci.edu
Corbyn Run: https://www.politico.eu/article/jeremy-corbyn-run-video-game-general-election-uk-2017/
Games for the Many: https://gamesforthemany.org
Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, The Californian Ideology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
Department of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine: https://www.humanities.uci.edu/filmandmediastudies/