[Sci-tech-public] Videogames Exhibit in Hayden Library

[Michelle Baildon]

Games by the Book
Video Game Adaptations of Literary Works in the Hayden Library

The Hayden Library is hosting an interactive exhibition starting on
September 7th. Visitors to the second floor Humanities Library will be
able to play a selection of videogames adapting literary works from
Shakespeare to Douglas Adams. The exhibit explores the range of approaches
taken to create video games of literary works, The result is often
whimsical, turning the worlds of these stories into spaces to be explored,
often transforming them according video game conventions.

The games featured in the exhibit invite players to become Nick Carraway,
the narrator of The Great Gatsby, dodging drunken partygoers in his way to
meet Gatsby; explore the world of Shakespeare's plays; carry out an
exercise of introspection based on Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus; or
revisit the events of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Games by the Book, curated by Clara Fernández-Vara and Nick Montfort, will
be open to the public until October 8th, in the Humanities library, on the
2nd floor of the Hayden Library. More details can be found at:

http://trope-tank.mit.edu/games_by_the_book/

The exhibit is sponsored by the De Florez Fund for Humor, the MIT Council
of the Arts, the MIT Game Lab, and the Electronic Literature Organization
and Comparative Media Studies.


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Michelle Baildon
Philosophy, History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, & Society Librarian
Interim Political Science Selector
MIT Libraries
Hayden Library: 14S-230 / Dewey Library: E53-168N
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel. 617-253-9352
Fax 617-253-2464


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