Lindsay Grace

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Visual Art

Art Exhibitions | Curating | Selected Work | Videos
 

Digital and Play Art
Digital art seeking to highlight specific aspects of the social relationship between human and machine. These relationships are like most human relationships, wonderful but full of distinct challenges that require attention.

 

Art Exhibits Art Exhibitions, Showcases, and Competitions
Black Like Me 2015 Critical Gameplay: Black Like Me
Blank Arcade: Games out of Joint, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
Big Huggin' Game 2015 Critical Gameplay: Big Huggin'
Games for Change Indie Booth
, Tribeca Film Fest / Games for Change, New York, NY, USA
   
Big Huggin' Game

2014 Critical Gameplay: Big Huggin'
Indies from the Middle
, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

You a Very Meaningful Game 2014 Critical Gameplay: You, A Very Meaningful Game
Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE2014), Funchal, Madeira
You a Very Meaningful Game 2014 Critical Gameplay: Bang!
International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling Exhibition
ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
You a Very Meaningful Game 2014 Critical Gameplay: You, A Very Meaningful Game
International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling Exhibition
ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Lesley the Lover Game 2014 Critical Gameplay: Lesley the Lover (in Safe not Sorry)
Meaningful Play Conference (Game Gallery), East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Black Like Me 2014 Critical Gameplay: Black Like Me
Computer Arts Congress / Nano Federal University, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
You a Very Meaningful Game 2014 Critical Gameplay: Penguin Roll
Baltimore Innovation Week (App Developers' Showcase), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
You a Very Meaningful Game 2014 Critical Gameplay: You, A Very Meaningful Game
Blank Arcade, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Black Like Me 2014 Critical Gameplay: Black Like Me
Artscape (Gamescape), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
You a Very Meaningful Game 2014 Critical Gameplay: You
Artscape (Gamescape), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
You a Very Meaningful Game 2014 Critical Gameplay: My Child Knows Chinese
Artscape (Gamescape), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
You a Very Meaningful Game 2014 Critical Gameplay: Penguin Roll
Artscape (Gamescape), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Big Huggin' Game

2014 Critical Gameplay: Big Huggin
The Aesthetics of Gameplay, ACM SIGGRAPH (online)

Black Like Me 2014 Critical Gameplay: Stolen Kisses
9th Annual Foundations of Digital Games, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Black Like Me 2014 Critical Gameplay: Black Like Me
9th Annual Foundations of Digital Games, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Big Huggin' Game 2014 Critical Gameplay: Big Huggin'
9th Annual Foundations of Digital Games, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Black Like Me 2014 Critical Gameplay: Black Like Me
12th Annual Magfest, Indie Games Showcase National Harbor, Maryland, USA
Music Box Thumb

2014 Music Box (video only)
New Media Caucus NMC 10 Video Programme

  • Llewellyn Gallery @ Alfred State College January 20-February 7, 2014
  • Sleeth Gallery @ West Virgina Wesleyan CollegeJanuary 14-30, 2014
  • Cassidy Theatre @ Chicago Cultural Center CAA Conference (Chicago)Screenings: February 13th from 12:00-2:30pm and February 14th from 5:30-8:00pm
  • Brick City Gallery @ Missouri State UniversityMarch 4-15, 2014
   
Black Like Me 2013 Critical Gameplay: Black Like Me
Advances in Computer Entertainment Game Competition, University of Twente, Netherlands
Poe's Tell Tale Heart Game 2013 Edgar Allen Poe's Tell Tale Heart (*Awarded)
Advances in Computer Entertainment Game Competition, University of Twente, Netherlands
You a Very Meaningful Game 2013 You - A Very Meaningful Game
International Digital Media Arts Exhibit (IDEAS), Laguna Beach College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, California USA
Poe's Tell Tale Heart Game 2013 Edgar Allen Poe's Tell Tale Heart
International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling Art Exhibit, Istanbul, Turkey
Black Like Me 2013 Critical Gameplay Black Like Me
International Digital Media Arts Exhibit (IDEAS), Laguna Beach, California, USA
Poe's Tell Tale Heart Game 2013 Edgar Allen Poe's Tell Tale Heart, International Digital Media Arts Exhibit (IDEAS), Laguna Beach, California, USA
Conversations 2013 Conversations (video only)
Boston Festival of Indepenedent Games, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA
Music Box Thumb 2013 Music Box (video only)
Boston Festival of Indepenedent Games, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA
WAit-Critical Gameplay 2013 Critical Gameplay: Wait (video only)
Boston Festival of Indepenedent Games,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA
Big Huggin' Game 2013 Critical Gameplay: Big Huggin'
The Brick's 5th Annual Gameplay Festival, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Big Huggin' Game 2013 Critical Gameplay: Big Huggin'
Artscape (Gamescape), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
WAit-Critical Gameplay

2013 Critical Gameplay: Wait (*Awarded)
2013 Games for Change (Babycastles Hall of Fame), New York, New York, USA

You a Very Meaningful Game 2013 You - A Very Meaningful Game
9th Games Learning and Society Conference Art Exhibit, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Big Huggin' Game 2013 Critical Gameplay: Big Huggin'
13th File Electronic Language Festival International Independent Games Exhibit, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Big Huggin' Game 2013 Critical Gameplay: Big Huggin'
CHI 2013, Paris, France
WAit-Critical Gameplay

2013 Critical Gameplay: Wait
2013 Different Games Exhibit, NYU Polytechnic Institute, New York, New York, USA

   
Big Huggin' Game

2012 Critical Gameplay
Computer Art Congress 3, Paris, France

Big Huggin' Game 2012 Critical Gameplay: Big Huggin'
Punk Arcade, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bikini Beach Zombie Massacre 2012 Bikini Beach Zombie Massacre (talk and demo)
Arse Electronika (4Play), San Francisco, California
Music Box Thumb 2012 Music Box
13th File Electronic Language Festival Interactive Art Exhibit, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Big Huggin' Game 2012 Critical Gameplay: Big Huggin' (*Awarded)
Artscape Arts Festival/Gamescape Game Showcase, Baltimore, Maryland
Big Huggin' Game 2012 Critical Gameplay: Big Huggin'
8th Games, Learning and Society Conference Art Exhibit, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
   
Music Box Thumb 2011 Music Box
7th
Games Learning and Society Conference Art Exhibit, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Conversations

2011 Conversations Lite
7th Games Learning and Society Conference Art Exhibit
, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Music Box Thumb

2011 Music Box
7th
Games Learning and Society Conference Art Exhibit, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

WAit-Critical Gameplay

2011 Critical Gameplay: Wait
7th Games Learning and Society Conference Art Exhibit, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Polyglot Cubed 2011 Polyglot Cubed
7th Games Learning and Society Conference Art Exhibit, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
   
Conversations 2010 Conversations Lite
8th Annual International Digital Media and Art Association Art Exhibit (IDEAS), Emily Carr University, Vancouver B.C.
Healer

2010 Critical Gameplay: Healer
Healer, 8th Annual International Digital Media and Art Association (IDEAS), Emily Carr University, Vancouver B.C.

Contrast Show Image 2010 Contrast(digital photography)
New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachussetts
Critical Gameplay Image 2010 Critical Gameplay (Selected Games)
Meaningful Play, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Critical Gameplay Image 2010 Software Studies in Computer Gameplay (Media Showcase)
28th Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Atlanta, Georgia
   
Critical Gameplay Image 2009 Critical Gameplay
International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Athens, Greece
WAit-Critical Gameplay 2009 Critical Gameplay: Wait
7th Annual International Digital Media and Art Association (IDEAS), Ball State University Gallery, Muncie, Indiana
Polyglot Cubed 2009 Polyglot Cubed
Serious Games Showcase / National Training Systems Association (NTSA), Finalist, Orlando, Florida
WAit-Critical Gameplay 2009 Critical Gameplay: Wait
SBGames 2009 Arts Exhibition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Music Box Thumb 2009 Music Box
SBGames 2009 Arts Exhibition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Critical Gameplay Image 2009 Critical Gameplay
Solo Game Exhibition, 1100 Cermak Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
   
Polyglot Cubed

2008 Polyglot Cubed (*Awarded)
Meaningful Play Serious Games Conference, East Lansing, Michigan

Cabo Verde Photograph 2008 7th Annual Pilsen Together Art Festival
National Museum Of Mexican Fine Arts [photography], Chicago, Illinois
Van Gogh Bot 2008 Co-Curator of Make Me an Offer, Exhibited Van Gogh Bot
Gallery 350, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
Review at Newcity Art, Chicago
   
Gallery 350 2008 Faculty Exhibit, Gallery 350, Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago [interactive art], Chicago, Illinois
Gallery 350 2008 Faculty Exhibit, Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati [interactive art], Cincinnati, Ohio
Gallery 350 2007 Faculty Exhibit, Gallery 350, Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago [photography], Chicago, Illinois
Showcases and CuratingShowcase Organization and Curating
Gallery 350

Blank Arcade 2015: Games out of Joint:
Curated by Lindsay Grace and Paolo Ruffino

An exhibition of creative works at the 2015 Digital Games Research AssociationDiGRA annual conference. The 18 selected works demonstrate The selected works represent the best application of the theme "games out of joint" as they relate to the notion of games and play as creative research. The work is collected in two categories. The first category includes work which supports the artistic, non-commercial research and aesthetics of play. The second category includes work which extends the commercial game medium by aligning with the aesthetic and experiential qualities of traditional digital games, but extending the aims of such work.

Artists: Niels Quinten • Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti (Coll.eo) • James Earl Cox III • Brad Tober • Kieran Nolan • Eliran Vegh • Adam Trowbridge & Jessica Westbrook (Channel Two) • Roberto Fassone • Martin Reiche • Mark Franz • 404 Sight Team (University of Utah) • Skyward Level 404, Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD) Game Lab • Splattershmup - Team Splattershmup (including Andy Phelps, Aaron Cloutier, Christopher Cascioli and Jenn Hinton) • Perola Bonfanti • Lindsay Grace

Location: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Scharnhorststraße 1, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany
Date: May 14-17: 2015
Exhibit Catalogue (in press)

Gallery 350

Indies from the Middle:
Curated by Chris Totten, Lindsay Grace, David King, Tronster Hartley, Matt Brenner and Magfest

Indies from the Middle is a curated collection of independent games that uniquely represent the character, personality and aesthetics of the country's mid-Atlantic region. The one day pop-up arcade occurs on December 7th, 2014 at the Smithsonian Art Museum, 8th and F NW, Washington, DC 20004. The event is curated and organized in partnership with The International Game Developer's Association (IGDA) chapters in Washington DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia along with American University and the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum (Kogod Courtyard), Washington, DC
Date: 2014

Curated: Social Impact Games

Gallery 350

Blank Arcade:
Curated by Lindsay Grace

An exhibition of creative works at the 2014 Digital Games Research AssociationDiGRA annual conference. The 17 selected works demonstrate varied creative efforts to fill in the blanks of ludic experience, offering new game play experiences, highlighting spaces that are relatively uninhabited by other playful experiences. This is an international collection, with participating artists from the North America and Europe.

Artists: Roger Altizer, Barry Atkins, James Earl Cox III, Anjali Deshmukh, Josh Fishburn, Brian Patrick Franklin, Christopher Wille, Lindsay Grace, Carolyn Jong, Tina Kalinger, Deirdra Kiai, Hartmut Koenitz, Aaron Oldenburg, Benjamin Poynter, Jean-Michel Rolland, Adam Trowbridge, Jessica Westbrook and Sweat-the University of Denver and University of California Santa Cruz Xylem Project Team

Location: DiGRA Annual Conference (2014), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Date: 2014
Exhibit Catalogue Print | PDF

Gallery 350

Make Me an Offer:
Curated by Lindsay Grace and Nancy Lu Rosenheim

An exhibition of artists from the United States, highlighting the growing ambiguity between commercial and fine arts.

Artists: Alex Jovanovich, Andrew Oleksiuk, Caroline Anderson, Christian Rieben, Clare Rosean, David Opie, Derek Haverland, Diana Baumbach, Francine LeClercq, Jessica Westbrook, Karissa Lang, Lindsay Grace, Matthew Metzger, Paul Sedan, Phil McCollam, Susan Adame

Location: Gallery 350, Chicago, IL, USA
Date: 2008

 
   
Showcases and CuratingSelected Work (Non-game)
 
Conversations (2008)

Music Box (2012)

Bounce (2009) Punkmill (2008) Van Gogh Bot Drift (2008)
Conversations Digital Art Installation Music Box Screen Shot Bounce Game Thumbnail Punkmill Web Project Small Thumbnail Punkmill Web Project Small Thumbnail Drift Interruptions
 

Photography:
Digital and traditional photography celebrating the continuity of play and work in multicultural communities. The work favors island communities, because they provide distinct topographical and sociological contrast.  [more at http://photagraphy.lgrace.com . . . ]

Cabo Verde Children Thumbnail Cabo Verde Children Thumbnail Cambodian Children Thumb Costa Rican Pool Thumbnail
Varied photographs from Africa, Asia and Central America

 


 
Art Exhibits Videos
2005:
Demo Reel (Animation)

c.1989:
Computational Computer
Graphics
 
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