Radical Friends: Fostering Cooperative Play and The Gameful Revolution
Milton Lim + Laurel Green
September 6, 2025
A Workshop with Milton Lim & Laurel Green
Join Milton Lim and Laurel Green, two of the core artists behind the video game for the stage, asses.masses, for a masterclass on critical games and interdisciplinary performance creation. How might interactive technologies, experience design, and radical hospitality be the key to shaping the future of storytelling and the crucial role(s) that stories will play in shaping contemporary life?
Milton and Laurel will share insights from their solo and shared projects—live experiences across a variety of mediums designed to inspire active decision-making and collective leadership. This workshop will offer a mix of practice sharing, practical insights, and hands-on prompts that provide participants the chance to rapidly test their own ideas. Together, participants will create their own paper prototypes, generating gameful performance tactics such as environmental storytelling, custom user interfaces, and emergent roleplay.
This session highlights how framing the politics of participation can provocatively (and playfully) challenge traditions of spectatorship and artist-audience relations towards social transformation.
Join Us
Saturday, September 6th at 3pm
Pig Iron Studios
1417 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19122
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Milton Lim (he/him) is a digital media artist, game designer, and performance creator based in Vancouver, Canada. His research-based practice entwines publicly available data, interactive digital media, and gameful performance to create speculative visions and candid articulations of social capital. This line of inquiry aims to reconsider our repertoires of knowledge aggregation and political intervention in the contemporary context of big data and algorithmic culture. Often cheeky and audience/participant driven, his work challenges standard performance traditions including duration, linearity, and repeatability. Milton holds a BFA (Hons.) in theatre performance and psychology from Simon Fraser University. He is one of the co-creators of asses.masses: the video game. In 2022, his work on asses.masses received the prestigious National Creation Fund from the National Arts Centre of Canada and it is now touring internationally in 7+ languages.
Laurel Green (she/her) is an artist, creative producer, and interdisciplinary collaborator whose work is deeply engaged with process, exploring methodologies for creation, and strategies for shared leadership. She is a nationally-recognized dramaturg with a decade of practice in the creation, development, and production of new performance work. From the world premiere of over a dozen plays, to performance installations, gameful experiences, digital projects, and secret backyard shows; Laurel designs invitations to participate and provocations for change.