Game Workshop : Hong Kong Recoded
Community & Wider Programmes • Pay What You Can
2 Oct 2026 (Fri) • 18:30 • Loading Bar
Writer and curator Aidan Page will be in conversation with Central Saint Martin’s Elliot Burns to present a workshop on spatial representations of Hong Kong in computer art games practices. This installation of the yearly HKFF games programme will focus on local art games voices that intervene in Western-developed games about Hong Kong to create reparative native perspectives. Set in the local Dalston gaming pub Loading Bar, guests are invited to mingle over drinks, play games, and join discussions following the lecture. This event offers a unique intersection of gaming, urban studies, and cultural critique, exploring how digital spaces shape our understanding of place and identity.
Aidan Page is a lecturer and curator based in London. He teaches digital design and games art at the University of Roehampton. Focusing on digital spatiality and by analysing the novel textures of spaces within the virtual worlds of video games and other screen-based content, his research hopes to formulate a nuanced understanding of spatiality during the digital age, where the boundaries between virtual and real space seem more distributed and porous than ever.
Elliott Burns is an academic and digital art curator based at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London, who via the online publication Side Quest addresses histories of artist produced computer games. Beyond the art game, areas of expertise include online curatorial practice between Web 1.0 to 3.0 and new media art. He co-founded the online curatorial project Off Site Project and has delivered curatorial / research based projects with Anonymous Gallery, the British Council, the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Distant Gallery, ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art&Culture, Phoenix Art Centre, the Royal College of Art, SummerWorks Festival, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. His writing has been published with DATA Browser, Furtherfield, HAU, Kunstlicht Journal and Outland.
