[spectre] Part 2 of Summer Board Games and Picnic with Class Wargames

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Part 2 of Summer Board Games and Picnic with Class Wargames

Saturday 30 June 2012, 1-5pm @Furtherfield
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/events/summer-board-games-and-picnic

Join us for a talk about gaming the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution led by 
Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett of Class Wargames. The event will 
kick off with a picnic in the park and continue with an afternoon of 
collective playing of Richard Borg's Commands & Colors, a Napoleonic-era 
military strategy game.

About the artists

Class Wargames is an avant-garde movement of artists, activists, and 
theoreticians engaged in the production of works of ludic subversion in 
the bureaucratic society of controlled consumption. The members of Class 
Wargames are Dr. Richard Barbrook, author and senior lecturer in the 
Department of Politics & IR at the University of Westminster; Rod 
Dickinson,  artist and lecturer at University of the West of England; 
Alex Veness, artist and co-founder of Class Wargames;Ilze Black, media 
artist and producer; Fabian Tompsett, initiator of London 
Psychogeographical Association and author; Mark Copplestone, author and 
figure designer; Lucy Blake, Software developer; Stefan Lutschinger, 
lecturer, artist and researcher; and Elena Vorontsova, World Radio 
Network and journalist.

Kimathi Donkor lives and works in London. He attained his B.A. at 
Goldsmiths and an M.A. at Camberwell College of Art, both in Fine Art. 
In 2011 he received the Derek Hill Award painting scholarship for the 
British School at Rome; and, in 2010, his paintings were exhibited in 
the 29th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil.

Summer Board Games and Picnic is part of Invisible Forces at 
Furtherfield Gallery.
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/invisible-forces

More Invisible Forces events.
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/invisible-forces-events

Visiting information
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery/visit

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