Seminar 4: Sports Video Games : let's talk with Professor Lowood from Stanford, Raiford Guins and Carlin Wing

Seminaire 4 - Jeux vidéo de Sport - Professeur Lowood de l'Université de Standford en parle avec Raiford Guins et Carlin Wing

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Henry Lowood is the Harold C. Hohbach Curator, History of Science & Technology Collections and Film & Media Collections at Stanford University. He has written and lectured on software and game history and preservation. With Michael Nitsche, he co-edited The Machinima Reader (2011) and, with Raiford Guins, Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon (2016), both for MIT Press. With Guins, he also co-edits the book series, Game Histories, for MIT Press.

Carlin Wing is an artist, media scholar, and educator. Her current book project, “Bounce: A History of Balls, Walls, and Gaming Bodies,” follows an array of bouncing balls through the histories of electronic and non-electronic games, across the spectrum of play, game, and sport, and into the domains of physics, material science, animation, and computing. She is an assistant professor of media studies at Scripps College.

Raiford Guins is Director and Professor of Cinema and Media Studies within the Media School at Indiana University, Bloomington. His most recent book is, Atari Design: Impressions on Coin-Operated Video Game Machines (Bloomsbury, 2020).