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  EVENTS

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WORKSHOP

Football Practice

October 24, 2021
1pm–4pm ET / 10am–1pm PT
Online Workshop
Free / Donate

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Football Practice is a software simulation and workshop series by past CultureHub resident artist Kristin McWharter. Reflecting on American football's histories, cultural impact, and modes of storytelling, this workshop examines how these stories have come to shape current understandings of community, citizenship, and nationalism.

Inspired by the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse, video game sports simulations such as Madden, as well as the practice game mods where users change, alter, or manipulate how a game looks or behaves, participants in the workshop will playfully draft and design new players to join speculative teams, playing in real time. Football Practice serves as a new media tool to imagine alternative strategies of competitive play and consensual violence.

Part performance lecture, part interactive imagining, this three-hour Zoom workshop is open to anyone regardless of their knowledge or interest in football. If you are interested in participating and have accommodation requests, please email kristinmcwharter@gmail.com.

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Kristin McWharter – Lead Artist and Coach
Alm Chung – AI Consultant
Anna Strain – Illustrator
Jackie Turpin – Sound Designer
Sara Drake – 3D Modeler
Adrian Pijoan – 3D Modeler
Natalee Decker – 3D Modeler
Iris Luo – Studio Assistant

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Kristin McWharter (b. 1990) is a multi- disciplinary artist whose work explores the entangled relationship between competition and intimacy. She often integrates novel technologies and unexpected material forms to conjoin viewers within immersive sculptural installations and viewer- inclusive performances. Inspired by 20th century sports narratives, collective decision making, and technology as a spiritual authority, she blurs the boundaries of social intimacy and competitive culture. evoking viewer’s relationships to affection, antagonism, sincerity and discomfort within their larger social context. Her work has been exhibited widely including at The Hammer Museum, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Bangkok Arts and Cultural Center, Ars Electronica, Museo Altillo Beni, Light City Baltimore and FILE Festival. McWharter is an Assistant Professor in Art & Technology Studies at SAIC.

IMAGE: Kristin McWharter, still from Football Practice

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