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Independent Game Designer, Archivist, and Activist
Merritt Kopas is the author of the games LIM, HUGPUNX, and Consensual Torture Simulator, and a number of other works. Her games have shifted conversations about play, bodies, and sex and have been showcased in festivals across North America and Europe. Through her work, she aims to build forms of play useful to radical movements and marginalized communities. Additionally, she curates free and accessible games at her project forest ambassador, an attempt to bring interesting work in games to wider publics. She is currently editing an anthology of interactive fiction to be released in 2015
Tom McEnaney:
Tom McEnaney received his PH.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. His research interests include the history of media and technology, sound studies, discourse theory, linguistic anthropology, and new media studies. He has published on digital photography's role in the construction of divided global and national publics in Cuba (LaHabana Elegnate), and the poetics of play and historiography in Borges and Benjamin(VariacionesBorges).
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