Data Visualization and computer games

Julian Oliver will give coverage of artistic games that engage information visualisation in the course of their design and/or game-logic. Drawing from an archive of 120 games in the Select Parks Art Game archives he will also look at projects that may not be games, so much as they graphically and/or sonically abstract the events within a game such that they may be read as a new kind of information. Of particular focus in the talk will be a discussion of the hacking techniques often used to exploit games and or game-engines in the creation of such work.