4:00PM - 4:50PM: Liz Rywelski "TIME-SHARE: Using Tactical Performance to Unveil the Corporate Rabbit Hole."
5:00PM - 5:50PM: Cayden Mak "Alternate Reality Gaming for Critical Consciousness"

Liz Rywelski "TIME-SHARE: Using Tactical Performance to Unveil the Corporate Rabbit Hole."
www.lizrywelski.com

"I am seeking assistance in developing a consumption model for the ideal time-share customer. What financial and personal points of interest would an individual interested in investing in a time-share have? This is in aim to develop an alternate narrative in consumer models-as-alternate reality games.  This information will be useful in developing proposals for funding TIME SHARE, as an art work.

TIME SHARE is a performance and a play on a consumer model within a time share sales experience as seen through basic design principles of the Alternate Reality Game and the basic principles of Consumer Theory.  In TIME SHARE we will look at how in an Alternate Reality Game, Performance Play, and Customer Sales Agents use Real Life as a Medium to win a game. We also look at what winning can produce for the player and how the win can add to the game narrative."

Needs help with: Conceptual help / brainstorming ideas, developing language to interest artist funding

Cayden Mak "Alternate Reality Gaming for Critical Consciousness"
http://thenoiseofthestreet.net/ 

"This project is being grown as my thesis project for my Master of Fine Arts. The project is a transmedia story/game that is about the radical history of our university. It's an attempt to counteract privatization and its attendant dehistoricization by empowering incoming students with knowledge and a network to do something about things that are pretty problematic. In addition to independent publications and events, information and puzzles will be distributed through publication in a student-run biweekly, interactions with real people (many of whom were present for some serious history), and online, with a fictional character who accidentally gets involved in the correspondence of a shadowy wing of an evil corporation, as well as a couple of other websites. One part sci-fi, one part community organizing, one part research lesson, connecting objects, the internet, and collaborative storytelling to build an educated, empowered resistance to privatization, austerity measures, and the subsequent reinforcement of neoliberal ideology in higher education.

I will come with storyboards and character prototypes, as well as some puzzle/level ideas, but I think that's what I really need help with!"

Needs help with: Conceptual help / brainstorming ideas, Marketing & Promotion, I'm not sure!, puzzle/"level" development ideas

Idea Jams - Come roll up your (brain) sleeves

If you have an idea that you need help with, come pitch it at our bi-monthly events. This is no Dragon’s Den or Shark Tank! Idea Jams are informal get-togethers with just enough structure to make sure that you get something of value out of coming. 

You bring your ideas (vaguely related to the Internet of Things), we provide the "secret sauce" (along with beer and snacks!)

Need some help with an idea? Together we'll figure out how to make your ideas concrete and possibly help you find the labour and resources you need. Each individual segments of the idea jam is about 50 minutes. You have 10-15 minutes to present your idea to all jammers and explain current challenges/problems. Jammers then break down into small groups and brainstorm solutions for 20 minutes, using our handy "writables" (writeable tables...). Jammers then report back to the group in the last 15 minutes. We hope to have 2 presenters at each Idea Jam event.

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Intellectual Property & Collaboration Policy

By attending you agree that all ideas discussed in reference to the presenter’s project during the individual segments of the Idea Jam become the property of the presenter. This is a pay-it-forward event. If during the event you have an idea that you want to develop on your own, keep it to yourself.