Blog – 09

The work of Phoenix Perry most inspires me. She is an indie game developer and educator who is based in the United Kingdom. She went to the University of Tennessee and later to NYU for her master’s. On her website, she describes herself as “an artist and activist who often uses culture as a medium.” She also loves experimenting with social engagement through graph theory, mesh networks, and emergent systems. One of her works that stood out to me was Bot Party, which is a game that explores intimacy through physical play using sound. Essentially, when the game is played the 3 bots use bot-to-skin, skin-to-skin, and skin-to-bot communication and send encoded secret messages to each other. These secret messages are then relayed to the player in the form of sounds. Perry created this game because she saw the social phobia that exists involving holding hands and being friendly with one another. Check it out below!

http://playbotparty.com/2018/01/24/WhatIsBotPartyl-prep/

http://phoenixperry.com

By: Katie Makarska