Please note: This event took place in Nov 2021
This Lunchtime Talk by Oma Keeling will explore digital sexual policing, and how sexual culture in video games and games production reinforces and resists this, both historically and today.
Presenting an examination based on recent research for their Container Magazine film 'Who Plays Unspeakable Games?', Oma will explore how cultural and legal structures have led to the harmful misregulation of online sexual media and sex work, and reinforce dominant legacies in video game culture and development.
Relating this to how radical ideas of queer sex and sexuality in computer art and video game history have responded to these dominant structures, they will present examples of games made by indie creators today which carry on a legacy of resistance in increasingly closed off digital spheres.
About Oma Keeling
Oma Keeling is an artist, game developer and writer researching art histories in videogame culture. They were resident artist for issue 3 of Container Magazine in 2021, creating the film 'Who Plays Unspeakable Games?', and are interested in the politics of sexuality in art, and the future of games and play.