#angles25
Team @frostygamesfest.com are speaking at Freeplay this week which means that if you see us you have to bring us ice cream.

Grab your tickets for Freeplay here: events.humanitix.com/angles25
Angles 2025
The Angles conference returns for three days of talks and events at Science Gallery Melbourne.
events.humanitix.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Freeplay Angles starts tomorrow! Conference sessions run from midday to 5pm, Thursday to Saturday. If you can't make it to all three, individual day tickets are available. Catch you at Science Gallery soon 👭☠️🔮

events.humanitix.com/angles25
Angles 2025
The Angles conference returns for three days of talks and events at Science Gallery Melbourne.
events.humanitix.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
After becoming Australian she used the strong Australian passport to return to her father's home of Palestine.

She had go to another colony to be allowed visit her father's home that was under a colonial occupation

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Displacement removes people from their homeland.

Rusaila comes from refugees on both sides of her family.

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Edges are a colonial imposition.

The straight lines on these maps were clearly drawn with a ruler far from the places depicted

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Rusaila discuses edges.

They don't really exist in nature. The land continues below the ocean.

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Trigger warning for the talk:

The presentation contains images related to war, death and suffering.

There are no graphic images

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Rusaila is an academic and design academic.
She is not a game designer or gamer.
She has a clear political position.
Personal histories overlap collective histories.
Audiences might be uncomfortable but that's okay.
#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Final @free-play.bsky.social talk "Meet me at the edge of elsewhere" with Rusaila Bazlamit 

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Cecile brings up Australian filmmaker David Caesar and how he makes films about very specific places in new South Wales and the people who inhabit them.

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
All three projects are hyperlocal and specific.

Not just mentioning Swanston Street but understanding what Swanston Street means and is like to inhabit

Not just setting your project in the Pacific Northwest... the specific northwest

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Working on their three projects they realised there were a lot of commonalities between them.

All three featured pre-apocalyptic versions of Melbourne. This led them to connecting and sharing resources across their three projects

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Back for "Dead Melbourne Trifecta: Embracing commonality in independent practices" with @haraiva.bsky.social @mickey.ghoulish.com.au @unseconds.bsky.social talking about their projects Parasensor, Dawn Chorus & Putrid / Sharp
#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Algernon is lab mouse who was also given the treatment. Towards the end of the novel Algernon dies.

Hugh cried at this moment. At the time he was on exchange in Germany. Because of the exchange he could not be at the funeral of a friend who had died.

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Hugh begins by telling us he started this year by reading "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.

The book is about a person with an intellectual disability who undergoes an experimental treatment that raises dramatically raises his intelligence.

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Next @eyeofstormcat.bsky.social with "On Planting Virtual Flowers"

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Crisis Actor is a hybrid theatre work including actors in real life web technology, game engines, real time processing, motion capture

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Each of the speakers has a practice that crosses multiple fields of work
- theatre
- literature
- performance
- comedy
- web design and development
- 2D and 3D animation
- game development
- real time processing

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Rushed back from lunch to @free-play.bsky.social for Edge Case Love with @vidyarajan.bsky.social
@quail.bsky.social Quinn Franks & Sam McGilp talking about their upcoming hybrid theatre work "Crisis Actor" happening later in August for Now Or Never

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Hazel begins by asking us to imagine a sunset and the slow melancholic ending of the day - a quieter form of grief

Hazel is interested in exploring the concept of mono no aware

A Japanese idiom that means the beauty of things passing

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Next Hazel Mejia with "Augmented Grief: Why I Animate What’s Missing"

Hazel is a 2d animator, multimedia artist & photographer with a focus on memory, time and nostalgia

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Young Ben was influenced by edgy characters
- carnage
- sasuke
- the darkness
- bleach

They all harbour suffering!

Ben put feelings he was working through into art he made as a teenager.

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The Pain: Finding Escape In Art

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Contents
1. The Pain
2. The Darkness
3. The Horror

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM
We've got some content warnings for this talk!

Brief mentions: horror, asphyxiation, drowning and violation

Imagery of blood, self-harm & frightening imagery will be shown throughout

Some imagery will be evocative but never explicit

No jumpscares!

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25
August 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM