Chloe Appleby
Chloe Appleby
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Assistant Curator
Chloe Appleby is a games curator, researcher, and community advocate. She currently works at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia where she recently curated the successful Powerhouse Late x Gaming events, Queer Man Peering into a Rockpool.jpg in the Absolutely Queer Exhibition and co-curated the queer games exhibition Pride at Play. She is currently researching the relationship between cultural institutions and gaming industries and communities through research and practice.
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Videogames as a legitimate form: What's it going to take?
SAT, OCT 21, 3:30 PM
Conference
It's one of the world's most popular entertainment mediums. An industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars. The innovative work of studios and creative practitioners of all shapes, sizes, and disciplines means games has arrived as a legitimate medium.
But even if we take for granted that games should attract the same kind of broad respect and reverence as other screen mediums, like television and film, there’s still a language barrier. Why is that? How do we discuss games as a fully realised medium and industry? What language do we borrow, and what do we need to do differently to discuss games critically, commercially, and artistically?