[SIGCIS-Members] THIS FRIDAY Apr 12: Whit Pow on People Orientations // 2PM EST on Twitch

[Laine Nooney]

Join us Friday, April 12, as *ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories *hosts
scholar Whit Pow for their talk "People Orientations: Toward a Transgender
Video Game and Software History." The event will be at 2PM EST on the *ROMchip
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*About the Talk*
Pow's talk traces historically trans critiques, subversions, and
re-imaginings of the sovereignty of the computer through the work of three
trans programmers and game designers, Danielle (Dani) Bunten Berry, Jamie
Faye Fenton, and Cathryn Mataga. Between 1978 and 1998, they programmed and
designed experimental video glitch art, artificial intelligences, and
networked online media that imagined unprecedented uses for video games and
computer software—new methods that questioned the binary of computer code
and challenged the sovereignty of the computer systems on which their games
and programs were designed to be played. In their work, Berry, Fenton and
Mataga positioned the home computer and video game console not as the site
of unlimited futures and possibilities, but as objects that were inherently
limited, that oversimplified, and that could never really hold or simulate
the complexity of human life and choice during a period of great change
with regard to the shifting visibility, diagnosis, and control of trans
people in medical history.


*About the Author*Whit Pow (they/them) is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
Their book project, *People Orientations: Toward a Transgender Video Game
and Software History*, looks at the intersection of trans medical history,
surveillance, and policy with computer and video game history. Their work
has been published in and is forthcoming from *Camera Obscura*, *Feminist
Media Histories*, *ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories*, the art magazine
*Outland*, and on the Social Science Research Council’s *Just Tech*
platform, among others. Pow is a recipient of the NYU Center for the
Humanities Faculty Fellowship.


*About ROMchip**ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories
<https://www.romchip.org/>* is a free, online scholarly journal for game
history. *ROMchip *develops, edits, and publishes ad-free, open access game
history research for a range of audiences. It supports any discipline of
work enlivening the history of games in local and global contexts, and
embraces diversity in how game history is studied, documented, collected,
preserved, and practiced.

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