{"id":257,"date":"2017-05-02T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T21:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/?page_id=257"},"modified":"2017-05-08T16:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T20:07:10","slug":"pippin-barr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/pippin-barr\/","title":{"rendered":"Pippin Barr"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-181\" src=\"http:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pippin-barr-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pippin Barr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"member-title small-12 large-9 columns\">Assistant Professor, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University. Visiting\u00a0Senior Lecturer, Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>I make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pippinbarr.com\/category\/games\/\">Games<\/a>\u00a0about everything from airplane safety instructions to contemporary art to philosophy made out of snakes&#8230; and more!<br \/>\nI write <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pippinbarr.com\/category\/words\/\">Words<\/a>, which is most usually my take on making games and playing games.<br \/>\nI make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pippinbarr.com\/category\/images\/\">Images<\/a>. You know, drawings, comics, some interactive things, etc.<br \/>\nI wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pippinbarr.com\/book\">Book<\/a>. Called <em>How to Play a Video Game<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pippin currently\u00a0teaches game design and internet-based interventions and art projects at the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montr\u00e9al. Previously he has taught game design, experience design, prototyping, and criticism at institutions including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.um.edu.mt\/about\/academic\/institutes\">Institute of Digital Games<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.um.edu.mt\/\">University of Malta<\/a>,\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/game.itu.dk\/\">Center for Computer Games Research<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itu.dk\/\">IT University of Copenhagen<\/a> in Denmark and the <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/\">HotSoft Lab<\/a>\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/\">Carleton University<\/a> in Ottawa, Canada.<br \/>\nPippin has a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. My Ph.D. was about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pippinbarr.com\/academic\/Pippin_Barr_PhD_Thesis.pdf\">video game values (PDF)<\/a>. His M.Sc. was about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pippinbarr.com\/academic\/Pippin_Barr_MSc_Thesis.pdf\">user-interface metaphors (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Assistant Professor, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University. Visiting\u00a0Senior Lecturer, Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta. I make Games\u00a0about everything from airplane <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/pippin-barr\/\" title=\"Pippin Barr\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skins.abtec.org\/skins5.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}