The Rebellion Has Begun.
Participants of BOREDOM REBELLION: Science Gallery Youth Symposium (Jan 28 - 31, 2021) asked, What is the game? What makes us curious?
Prompted by notices posted on the Whova platform, this iteration of the Scicurious Games produced 20 digital Zines. As with previous editions, we celebrate the beautiful, mysterious and bewildering Zines that have been produced.
Where participants from previous years were guided by physical prompts, bits of string, magazine cut-outs or the texture of a marker, 2021 established several distinctly digital opportunities. Random scrawls mark an inadvertent attempt to scroll the page on a mobile phone. Elliptical circles suggest the use of a mouse and desktop interface. Handwritten text indicate either a tablet or a large mobile phone. This year, there are no fluffy bits protruding from the page or zines lost in the mail. What we do have are speculative inclusions of images, records of some participants’ attempts to communicate and an uncommon digital scicuriosity.
There are no spectators here. Play with the force of the random and join a zine.
Scroll through the pages.
Make a new page. Comment, critique and respond to the Zines. How scicurious are you?