Pippin Barr

Pippin Barr is an Associate Professor and department chair in the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal, where he is also a member of the Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Research Centre. Barr has collaborated with artists like Marina Abramović and @seinfeld2000, creating games on diverse topics such as airplane safety, chess, and parenting. Barr holds a Ph.D. focused on video game values and an M.Sc. on user-interface metaphors from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He is the author of The Stuff Games Are Made Of from MIT press.

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