Pippin Barr is a videogame maker, educator, and critic who lives and works in Montréal as an Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University. He is a prolific maker of videogames, producing work addressing everything from airplane safety instructions to contemporary art to the nature of videogames and videogame technologies. Pippin holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka, with a dissertation that examined the mediation of values in videogames. He is a well-known figure in the independent and artistic videogame scenes, makes his source code and process documentation publicly available via his presence on GitHub, and his latest book, The Stuff Games Are Made Of, discusses videogame design from the perspective of its materials. Pippin's website, www.pippinbarr.com, organizes his diverse activities into a central location.
