Speakers
Samuel Pizelo, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Samuel Pizelo is an Assistant Professor of Game Studies at the University of Toronto, Mississauga whose research focuses on the relationship between games of all kinds and knowledge production practices. His research has appeared in Representations, Game Studies, ROMchip, and Digital Humanities Quarterly. He is also a media practitioner, who uses data science, media art, and digital and analog game design practice to complement his research and teaching. He co-created Project Quintessence, a corpus exploration framework integrating machine learning and statistical models with dynamic visualizations to facilitate archival research. He is also a founding member of the Degrowth Game Design Project (DeGDP), a multi-campus design and research cluster exploring the possibilities of different games for helping us to imagine a post-growth future.