GTMO 441: Games, Detention, Power

A public sharing (IRL & online) of experimental playable media shaped by Mansoor Adayfi’s lived experience, developed in collaboration with Biome Collective and researchers from Abertay University and Mississippi State University.

Join us for a public sharing from a week-long, Creative Scotland-funded residency workshop developing a video game based on the experiences of Mansoor Adayfi, who was detained without charge at Guantánamo Bay for 14 years.

The evening will feature a presentation Mansoor Adayfi as well as the project team Antonio Aiello, Jenna Altomonte, Joseph DeLappe, Tom deMajo, Malath Abbas and Darshana Jayemanneas.

This early-stage residency explores how we might respond to life inside Guantánamo using experiential story telling, game design and playable media. The team is experimenting with ways to reflect how games, traditional, improvised, and digital, became tools of survival, resistance, and psychological escape under conditions of extreme confinement.

As Guantánamo continues to hold detainees, amid renewed proposals to expand detention operations there, GTMO 441 insists these stories remain urgent and unfinished.

The project is led by Biome Collective and supported by Abertay University researchers, working alongside Mansoor Adayfi, memoir co-writer Antonio Aiello, and an international team of scholars, artists, and technologists committed to work that is artistically innovative, ethically grounded, and emotionally resonant.

Starting at 5:30pm with experimental games to play followed by a few presentations, a panel discussion and live QA from 6pm. We'll have refreshments and we anticipate wrapping up between 7-7:30pm

Event Room details: https://rooms.abertay.ac.uk/1502

Link to join online from 17.30: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/395954621034360?p=jRnuVDUMtd9PCMIleK

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