About Speaker

"A.M. Darke is an artist and game maker designing radical tools for social intervention. Still in the class war. Now in the pandemic. He’s in the combination class war and pandemic. Assistant Professor of Digital Arts and New Media, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, at UC Santa Cruz, Darke also directs The Other Lab, an interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist research space for experimental games and new media. She’s currently working on the Black culture game ‘Ye or Nay? and the Open Source Afro Hair Library, a 3D model database for Black hair styles and textures. Darke is an Assistant Professor of Games and Playable Media, Digital Arts and New Media, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz, as well as the founding director of The Other Lab, an interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist research space for experimental games, XR, and new media. Her work has been shown internationally and featured in a variety of publications, including Kill Screen, Vice, and NPR. In 2017, she was an IndieCade finalist for his work Objectif, a party game that examines racialized standards of beauty."