Discussions on women in the world of video game design. Some examples from already existing games.
Anokhi Shah is an Architect, Curator, Educator, and New Media Entrepreneur based in Frankfurt and Pune. She is the founder of company IOVR -an Interdisciplinary Design Research startup founded on the premise of technological innovation flirting with new media narratives. It is a multimedia studio, a combination of a physical set with immersive design to create hyperreality experiences. She is the Curator for the annual New Media Festival: Cyberia at TIFA Working Studios.
Instagram: @iovr.space Link: www.iovr.space
Poornima has been part of the gaming industry for over 15 years and essayed roles varying from Game Designer to Producer to Studio head and Entrepreneur. She has been part of companies like Indiagames (Disney India), Jumpstart, GSN Games, etc. She is currently a Director of Design at Zynga. She has worked on franchises like BioShock Mobile, How to Train your Dragons, Neopets, and FarmVille 2: Country Escape to name a few. She is a Women in Games Ambassador and also a Hall of Fame Inductee at the Global WIG Awards 2020, making her the first Indian game developer to receive such an honor.
http://www.womeningames.org/hall-of-fame/
Aditi Rakhe received her Bachelors in Architecture from Faculty of Architecture, S.C.E.T, Surat and her M.A. in History of Art from the University of Nottingham, U.K. She has been working in curatorial teams and has undertaken various exhibitions in India and U.K. as an exhibition designer and manager. She has worked with Crop up Gallery (University of Nottingham) and The Aftermath Project x Nottingham Contemporary in the U.K. In India, she has worked with the Museum of Goa on various events and exhibitions and was the project manager for Goa Affordable Art Fest 2018. Subsequently, she joined TIFA Working Studios, Pune, as a Programmes Manager & was the Festival curator for the Futures of Sexuality Festival 2019. She presently works as a Project Lead (My City My Heritage) at Sahapedia.
Shraddha Nair is a writer and curator who lives and works between Kodaikanal and Bengaluru. Her curatorial practice is a method by which she negotiates and navigates the complexities of human consciousness, an interest that flows into her writing as well. She believes that art and collective experience holds the immense capacity to cultivate conversation, which forms the bedrock for cultural development - a process she deems vital in today's turbulent times. She is currently working to create spaces for art as a medium for discourse and education through interactions with children. Nair graduated from Srishti Institute, Bengaluru in 2018 and is currently a writer for the digital publication STIRworld.
Instagram: @yourlocalcurator
Link: www.yourlocalcurator.com
Image Credits: Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberia Festival is curated by Anokhi Shah @paw_lish, Curator at TIFA Working Studios
In collaboration with Goethe Institute, Pune @goethepune
Anuj Nakade @asifiknowu / @deepfriedneurons
Siddharth Merchant @triggerfish.wut