Plaything Research explores digital games and culture. Here
are some members of our research team.
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Josephine Starrs is a lecturer in Media Arts at Sydney
College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Her video and new media
works have been shown extensively in Australia and overseas. She
was a member of the Australian cyberfeminist collective VNS Matrix,
who used irony and humour to reveal the gendered biases hardwired
into computer culture and products. She has collaborated with Leon
Cmielewski on a variety of new media projects including The User
Unfriendly Interface and Dream Kitchen CD ROMs and the game patch,
Bio-tek Kitchen. email j.starrs@sca.usyd.edu.au |
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Zina Kaye is an Honours graduate of COFA who works commercially in interface and information design, and multimedia production. Recent projects include providing usability services for SBS Television, and the Sydney Dance Company website. In her spare time she plays with model airplanes, and ideas about embodiment in games and virtual communities. She sits on the NSW Committee of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association. |
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Sarah Macgregor is a student in Social Science at University of New South Wales. As a teenager she was an avid gamer, making it to the end of Prince of Persia (Amiga level game version) in three days. These days she doesn't find much to attract her interest in currently availble games. |
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Leon Cmielewski is an animator, artist and designer and has worked
in print and broadcast television design. He currently lectures in
the School of Communications Design and Media at the University of
Western Sydney. Together with Josephine Starrs he has produced a
range projects which have been widely exhibited, including; The User
Unfriendly Interface, The Paranoid Interface, The Fuzzy Love Dating
Database, Bio-Tek Kitchen, Dream Kitchen and a.k.a. |