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PLAYPOWER - Let's Go 8-bit!

Jeremy Douglass (U. California San Diego), Derek Lomas (The Playpower Foundation), Daniel Rehn (The Playpower Foundation)

Exploring the intersection of 8-bit art, culture, gameplay and learning by playing with open hardware and software.

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Jeremy Douglass

U. California San Diego

Jeremy Douglass is a postdoctoral researcher in Software Studies at the University of California San Diego, in affiliation with Calit2, the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, and Visual Arts. He researches critical approaches to software and code using the analytic frameworks of the humanities and social sciences.

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Derek Lomas

The Playpower Foundation

Derek Lomas would like to meet you.

Design for Development, Design for the other 90%, Social Design, Learning Game Design, Educational Technology Design, ICT4D

Derek Lomas is a research scientist and artist at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Technology (Calit2.net), where he directs the Social Movement Laboratory (socialmovement.org).

Lomas received his MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego and his BA in Cognitive Science from Yale University.

Daniel Rehn

The Playpower Foundation

Daniel Rehn is an artist, designer and scientist who is the creative director for Re:Game at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at UC, San Diego.

The Re:Game initiative, founded by Mr. Rehn, Derek Lomas and Jeremy Douglass, is comprised of several projects in the rapidly developing field of game studies including: Playpower and the Video Gameplay Database (VGDb).

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