Game Workshop : Hong Kong Recoded

Writer and curator Aidan Page will present a workshop on spatial representations of Hong Kong in local computer art game practices, serving as a continuation of last year’s program that looked at video game the Sleeping Dogs. Following conversations around depictions of Hong Kong through the lens of non-Asian developers, the workshop will focus on local voices that have used finished games as a platform to explore reparative native Hong Kong perspectives.

Set in the local gaming pub Loading Bar, guests are invited to mingle over drinks, play games, and join the discussion following the lecture. This event offers a unique intersection of gaming, urban studies, and cultural critique, exploring how digital spaces shape our understanding of place and identity.

Aidan Page is a lecturer and curator based in London. He teaches digital design and games art at the University of Roehampton. Focusing on digital spatiality and by analysing the novel textures of spaces within the virtual worlds of video games and other screen-based content, his research hopes to formulate a nuanced understanding of spatiality during the digital age, where the boundaries between virtual and real space seem more distributed and porous than ever.