GAGE project closing session

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Join us for the GAGE Project closing session at the Interactive Technologies Institute in Lisbon, Portugal.

Interactive Technologies Institute, Creative Hub Beato (HBC), Rua da Manutenção, Lisbon, Portugal

Join us for the GAGE Project closing session at the Interactive Technologies Institute, Creative Hub Beato (HBC)in Lisbon, Portugal. Let's celebrate the culmination of our hard work and achievements together. It's a time to reflect, share experiences, and look towards the future. We will also present a teaser of the animated short film Mnema, one of GAGE's project outputs. About the GAGE ProjectThe Game Art and Gender Equity project was born out of a post-doctoral research proposal submitted to the Multimedia Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon by Dr. Luciana Lima, a researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute. The project began before the COVID-19 pandemic, under the supervision and collaboration of Dr. Patrícia Gouveia, a researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute. Between 2020 and 2024, a group of eleven artists and researchers from different fields of knowledge carried out arts-based research focused on gender equity in the digital games sector.One of the project's research objectives was to map the evolution of female participation in the Portuguese gaming industry. The team wanted to do this because little was known about the history of digital games in Portugal. Much less about how women have contributed to the development of the gaming industry. This industry is small in Portugal and still very much dominated by men.The GAGE team interviewed women and men from the gaming industry and carried out a historical analysis of the beginnings of digital games culture in Portugal. In 2023, GAGE invited four artists - Inês Costa, Carolina Bonzinho, Sheila Correia and João Beleza - to create an animated short film that integrated GAGE's empirical research results: Mnema.About Mnema short film (Directors' statement)Mnema is a short animated film directed by Carolina Bonzinho and Inês Costa. The script was written in collaboration with Sheila Carvalho, and João Beleza created the music and sound design.As women artists, we can relate directly to this project and all the women who participated in the research. We know first-hand many of the frustrations and obstacles they have had to overcome because we feel them, too, and how important it is to see each other achieving new goals. Our film is a part of the Game Art and Gender Equity research project, supervised by Luciana Lima, in which a series of interviews were conducted with Portuguese women of different ages and social backgrounds who work or have worked in the video game industry. From these testimonies, the short film Mnema is created, seeking to unravel a visual universe that helps convey these stories and experiences.Mnema is the character with whom we will explore the incredible universe of video games, designing spaces we want to make our own. But it is through each other's memories and stories that we find the strength and courage to enter masculinised and oppressive territories. Territories where our work is often undervalued, where abuse runs wild between office walls, and where we are confronted with characters who claim to be a representation of us but are nothing more than a stereotype.

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