Education
Talks
School Programs
VGA presents talks to deepen audience engagement and understanding of video games and new media. Upcoming and past talks, tours, conferences, and panels can be seen on our events page.
Contact VGA to schedule a field trip or have a speaker join your school today!
Publications
To further discourse and conversation about video games and new media, VGA publishes the VGA Reader and other titles.
Teen Game Design
In a partnership with Humboldt Park Library’s YOUmedia program, VGA trains Chicago’s next generation of game developers in fall, spring and summer courses.
Frame Switch
FRAME SWITCH is an interactive documentary VR experience that transforms users into citizen journalists as they observe and document real-world moments of conflict. Users begin by choosing one of two 360 scenes: live combat with Iraqi soldiers fighting ISIS (produced by the New York Times) or a one-on-one encounter with a female rebel soldier in Congo (produced by independent journalist Julia Leeb.) In each scene the user-as-journalist captures video footage that they experience as most significant in that moment with a virtual smartphone. Ultimately it is a personal experience that illustrates the high stakes of wielding a camera during critical events as they happen.
An early version of FRAME SWITCH has been exhibited at Bit Bash 2019 at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Munich Medientage 2019, and VGA Gallery.
FRAME SWITCH Production Team:
Chaz Evans, Director
Eric Espig, Creative Lead
Derrick Fields, Lead Artist
Jonathan Kinkley, Producer
Julia Leeb, Documentarian
Sean Moore, Production Assistant
Stephan Moore, Sound Designer
Russell Gillespie, Sound Designer
Brice Puls, Developer
FRAME SWITCH is a collaboration between VGA Gallery (Chicago) and the Media Majlis (Doha) and is supported by a MacArthur Foundation International Connections Grant.
