Former PlayStation indie boss Shuhei Yoshida and the founder of TIGSource are throwing a Game Poem jam that "challenges traditional boundaries between art forms"
What are you doing across Monday 7th to Tuesday 8th September?
What are you doing across Monday 7th to Tuesday 8th September?
The short version
- If your answer isn't "weaving sick rhymes for PlayStation's former indie gaming boss Shuhei Yoshida and original TIGsource founder Jordan Magnuson", then begone, for we are no longer friends.
- Magnuson and Yoshida are among the judges on a forthcoming game jam organised by the UK's National Film & Television School .
- It's dedicated to the "videogame poem" - an "emergent short-form personal expression that challenges traditional boundaries between art forms," as the organisers define it on the Itch.io page .
What happened
Magnuson opens by describing poetry as "not a form so much as a mode of intervention that can exist in any medium", written or otherwise, which is close to how I like to think about poetry myself. It's a virulent creative-critical ruleset, a hungry bastard ghost, saturating and wrapping its coils other media as it pleases.
Why it matters
I confess, I've got a whole interview with Magnuson and Yoshida in the can - the basis for a longer feature on game poems.
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