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		Several literature-producing games were developed and played by the Surrealists, who were inspired by parlor games and nonsense literature but had their own agenda of freeing the mind from the structures of rationality by means of strange and ludic structures (Brotchie 1993).
		Other literary game creators and electronic writers would do well to take a page from these two, even though translation is more difficult for games that use forms of natural language understanding or that rely on the structures of a language for their rules.
		Bookchin's work is "a tale told in ten games," each with novel skins that do at least three things: visually refer to objects, incidents, conflicts, and themes in the story; incorporate text from the story; and refer to various retro computer games with their gameplay and appearance.
	www.poemsthatgo.com /gallery/fall2003/print_article_games.htm (2025 words)

	Wikinfo \| Surrealism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Other surrealist groups were later formed in the United States, such as the Wisconsin Surrealist Group, the Portland Surrealist Group in Oregon, the Houston Surrealist Group, the Blue Feathers group in Minnesota, and a collection of surrealists in San Francisco.
		One might say that surrealist strands may be found in movements such as Free Jazz (Don Cherry, Sun Ra, etc.) and even in the daily lives of people in confrontation with limiting social conditions.
		Surrealist Subversions: The Surrealist Movement in the United States (edited with an introduction by Ron Sakolsky).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Surrealism (799 words)

	ReadWriteThink: February 18, 2006: Surrealist poet André Breton was born in 1896. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Surrealists were strongly influenced by the inhumanity and destruction witnessed in World War I, and they believed that spontaneous imagination, not human logic or reason, should be supreme.
		Surrealist poet André Breton was born in 1896.
		One of the hallmarks of the surrealist movement is the primacy that was placed on human imagination.
	www.readwritethink.org /calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=429 (551 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Rosemont, Surrealist Women
		This surrealist revolution was at first viewed by the surrealists themselves in nonpolitical terms, as a revolution of the spirit or mind.
		Surrealists rejected the other-worldly tenets of spiritualism, but early on they were deeply interested in all forms of psychic automatism and found much to admire in the products of Hélène Smith's wayward imagination.
		That it took so long for the surrealists to discover her is a striking indication of the generalized and deeply ingrained antifeminism of French intellectual life.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exrossur.html (9154 words)

	Surrealist games - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In surrealism, play, including surrealist games, is of great significance as not only a form of recreation but a method of investigation.
		Old games such as exquisite corpse, consequences, Conditionals, Question and Answer and newer ones such as Time Travelers' Potlatch, What is Wrong With This Picture?
		Surrealist games, See also, External links and Surrealist games.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Surrealist_games (110 words)

	Word Bomb: Surrealist Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Collected here finally is a large selection of the games the surrealists played with each other and alone to stimulate their creativity, explore their world, and basically play with ideas, words, and images.
		Each game and section is preceded by a bit of explanatory text, putting the game into context and saying about its history, who created it, and how it works.
		Surrealist Games is also plentifully illustrated with images by such artists as Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, and Marcel Jean.
	www.needcoffee.com /html/lit/wordbombs/sgames.htm (390 words)

	Tracy Fullerton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The goal of this organization is to use game play itself as a community building tool and design practice, to build a community of game designers and developers who communicate in the shared language of activity and play.
		Inspired by independent and alternative games culture, the USC Game Design Community is a collaboration between the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the Annenberg Center for Communication and the Interactive Media Division at the USC School of Cinema-Television.
		Game features are presented by students who have developed extensive save files and are prepared to discuss the game critically.
	www.gamesconference.org /digra2005/viewabstract.php?id=89 (975 words)

	Game Design Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Unlike the previous event, it felt as though less of the students in attendance were familiar with the Surrealist movement in general, which I think was why the collaging seemed to take people off guard; i think they initially were expecting more games to be presented formally, or something.
		I noted that as the game went on, we stopped describing the spawn and the entire thing was about making up "first encounter" stories about the objects.
		Word games, visual plays, provocations and re-inventions are the heart of Surrealist games and activities, a sort of “provocative magic” that results in unexpected and surprising results.
	gamedesign.iml.annenberg.edu /past.htm (1382 words)

	Surrealist Games
		The game introduces the object into an imaginary relationship that otherwise tends to be defined too superficially by an arbitrary and abstract subjectivity.
		Thus the game opens a new approach, from an unanticipated angle, to all the old and unresolved problems of projection, identification, idealization, fixation, obsession, etc.
		"Game of folded paper which consists of having several people compose a phrase or drawing collectively, none of the participants having any idea of the nature of the preceding contribution or contributions.
	www.surrealistmovement-usa.org /pages/time.html (726 words)

	Griffith: Surrealism and Grammar:
		They are freely entered into; separated from the run of ordinary ‘serious’ life, they are circumscribed by their own time and space; they are uncertain, their outcomes not predetermined; they are economically unproductive and not concerned with material interest, they are governed by rules; they are associated with imaginative projection and make believe.
		Surrealist games do the same, allowing students to compose their own poems by adhering to a few rules.
		Perhaps the most famous surrealist game is "The Exquisite Corpse," named after one of the noun phrases generated by the game.
	www.ateg.org /conferences/c6/griffith.htm (1196 words)

	STUDIO VALENTINE FINE ARTS AND GRAPHIC DESIGN
		This page will be devoted entirely to surrealist games and these collaborative games are open to all; click on the link(s) of your choice below.
		Playing games is a surrealist tradition and is a favourite of mine.
		Games from the original surrealist movement, modern surrealist games, and games from current surrealists will be included.
	www.studiovalentine.com /jeux.html (232 words)

	The Book Shelf
		Follows the development of European card games from their much disputed arrival in Europe during the Middle Ages (apparently, card games spread across the whole of Europe in amazingly short period of time, leaving both their point of entry and their point of origin shrouded in mystery and clouded by debate) to modern times.
		Parlett is an accomplished game designer in his own right and, as this book shows, a formidable scholar.
		All of the games fall into the abstract strategy category and have simple geometric patterns for boards (squares or hexagons arranged in a set pattern of rows and columns) so the patterns supplied seem a bit over the top.
	www.gamecabinet.com /info/GameBibliography.html (1067 words)

	Surrealist Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Surrealists use a variety of word and graphical 'games' for the purposes, as a friend of mine once described it, 'of expanding of an unseen singularity into a horizon and beyond'.
		Many of these techniques make use of automatism to generate phrases and images that act as the basis of further Surrealistic interpretation and creation, in a sense making known what was previously 'not knowable'.
		Of the Surrealist games, Exquisite Cadaver is probably the most well known and widely practiced.
	www.madsci.org /~lynn/juju/surr/games/games.html (189 words)

	The Exquisite Chicken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, most of the old surrealist games used random juxtapositions to generate the final product—a poem, a picture, or a story.
		Before the game begins, you and the other players must create the material that you'll use to generate the "prompts" during the game.
		The particular game that you're playing will determine the kind of material you need to create; you may be writing down words on slips of paper, drawing single-panel comics, or cutting out magazine pictures.
	www.koryheath.com /Games/Chicken (381 words)

	A Book of Surrealist Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lots of games (some literary, some artistic), information about the surrealist movement itself and some of the key players, and a good bibliography for future reading.
		The games were interesting and bizarre, there were lots of pictures, and a lot of artists were included.
		The games are so unusual compared to what we normally think of as games that more detailed directions are essential.
	www.getgourmetrecipes.com /cook_books/isbn1570620849.html (361 words)

	Surreal Games
		If for example you play the game with three players you agree that in the first stage the head is drawn, in the second the belly and the final stage will consist of legs (or tentacles).
		Decalcomania is related to other games/ procedures that resemble the Rohrschach Test used by psychologists, in which an ink-blot is folded in two to create a roughly symmetrical image and then is interpreted by the client.
		The game 'ghosts of my friend' works as follows: a signiture is folded in two while the ink is still wet.
	www.rollingmirror.co.uk /Surreal_Games.html (757 words)

	Surrealism-USA
		Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, edited with introductions by Penelope Rosemont, is the first book in any language of writings by the many women who have taken part in organized surrealism from its origins to today.
		Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues by Paul Garon and Beth Garon (Da Capo, 1992), is a biography of this exceptional blueswoman: oral history and an analysis of her songs based in feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and Black studies.
		Surrealist Experiences:1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights by Penelope Rosemont (Black Swan Press, 2000) focuses on fortuitous encounters, including the author's adventures in the magnetic fields of "pure psychic automatism." The book collects articles and essays by Rosemont from surrealist journals throughout the world, plus several published now for the first time.
	www.surrealistmovement-usa.org (733 words)

	The Surrealist Art Movement: definition \| surrealist artists \| history \| examples
		The surrealist movement of visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II.
		Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason; but Surrealism emphasis was not on negation but on positive expression.
		Also available in a gift edition (boxed with a game board).
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/surrealism.html (231 words)

	Surrealist games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		The procedure of such a game is intended to cut away the constraints of rationalism and allow concepts to develop more freely and in a more random manner.
		The aim is to break traditional thought patterns and create a more original endpoint.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Surrealist_games (162 words)

	Games, Live-Action Gaming, Resume, Surrealisim, and Rants... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I've also finished the Game of the Month for January 2002, including the banner and the thunbnail.
		So I did work on the Game of the Month last night; made the banner, the thumbnail, wrote the bulk of the rules, and made a bundle of variants.
		This one is a weird one; Sharon pointed out that it's more like a surrealist game than a standard competitive game.
	users.ev1.net /~leistiko/lemurama/2002_01_06_archive.html (370 words)

	Northwest SPoken Word LAB! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For the surrealist, writing was a communal as well as a social activity.
		Exquisite corpses, chain poems, and other collaborative games result in the creation of the unforeseen and discovering which could never be realized by any one person alone.
		In addition to classic surrealist games, we'll invent definitions for words, and write poems with words we've never heard before.
	www.splab.org /workshops/surreal.html (114 words)

	Surrealist Games
		It is for those who wish to employ for themselves the techniques of Surrealist enquiry and discovery; it sets out the rules and directions for playing the games.
		But most specially and remarkably, it was through games, play, techniques of surprise and methodologies of the fantastic that they subverted academic modes of enquiry, and undermined the complacent certainties of the reasonable and respectable.
		A surrealist dictionary and a removable tatoo are also included in the game box.
	www.boardgamegeek.com /game/14170 (303 words)

	BookPeople \| The Largest Bookstore in Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Surrealist movement that arose in Europe in the early 1900s used playful procedures and systematic stratagems to create provocative works and challenge the conventions of art, literature, and society.
		Surrealist Games is a delightful compendium that allows the reader to enjoy at first hand the methodologies of the Surreal, with their amazing swings between the verbal and the visual, the beautiful and the grotesque.
		It is also a box of games to play for fun: poetic, imaginative, revelatory, full of possibilities for unlocking the door to the unconscious and releasing the poetry of collective creativity.
	www.bookpeople.com /infobook.html?isbn=0877738750 (296 words)

	The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access
		Surrealist artists believed that imagination was most alive in the expression of unconscious or illogical thought.
		The phrase "exquisite corpse" originated with a Surrealist game of chance in which sentences were jointly created by a group of people, each person unaware of the words written by previous players.
		By looking at a painting by René Magritte and creating their own Surrealist "room," students further explore the Surrealist idea of placing common objects in unusual locations.
	www.artic.edu /artaccess/AA_Modern/pages/MOD_lesson1.shtml (404 words)

	g a m e t i m e
		This interdisciplinary, advanced undergrad and grad theory / practice seminar explores the game-from surrealist games to computer games, we'll critically examine and practice gaming through the study of narrative, site, rule-creation, and theories of play.
		This course is intended to familiarize students with important approaches incorporating games and play developed by both the art world and popular culture during the 20th and 21st century, as well as free students to play with these approaches.
		This course explores all kinds of games, from artists' games to common children's games.
	www.maryflanagan.com /courses/2003/winter/seminar (233 words)

	Is It A Book? \| Bibliography \| Surrealism, Dada, Oulipo, &c. \|
		Surrealist games, compiled by Alistair Brotchie and edited by Mel Gooding.
		A touring exhibition of Dada and Surrealist works from the Vera, Silvia, and Arturo Schwarz collection, organized by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
		Includes a section on Surrealist games and the Surrealist compliment generator.
	www.philobiblon.com /isitabook/bibsurrealism.html (496 words)

	growabrain: Games Archives
		Game theory - A resource for educators and students of game theory.
		It is interesting to read about this game for the first time on “Boing Boing” today, where it is attributed to Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and where it is called “Petals Around the Rose” … Rack your brains.
		10,000 toys and games at the The Henry Ford museum that are dating from the early 1800s to the present...
	growabrain.typepad.com /growabrain/games (4345 words)

	SURREALIST GAMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Surrealist Moments in English 290 - Variations of the Exquisite Cadaver Game
		The English 290 students were first to write down a question, starting with "why" or "what".
		This page was created by Lisa Marini, with game results provided by Pam Collins.
	www.towson.edu /~sallen/COURSES/SURREAL/STUDENTS/MARINI/Games.html (183 words)

	DRT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Surrealists used many techniques, or games, to explore the role of chance and the unconscious in artistic creation.
		Not stopping at playing the game, artists used their products as a basis for study, investigating and analyzing the results of their experiments.
		The folks at LVX23 make a very apt comparison of surrealist games and chaos magick.
	singlenesia.com /news/date/31700235 (426 words)

	concepts in gaming - hunter college
		This analytical seminar explores the language of games—from surrealist games to computer games, students in the course critically examine gaming through the study of the history of games, the role of narrative and language in games, game structures, interaction paradigms, rule-creation, and theories of play.
		This course is intended to familiarize students with important approaches incorporating games and play developed by both the art world and popular culture during the 19th and 20th, centuries.
		A game is itself a language, and it is this language we seek to understand.
	www.maryflanagan.com /courses/2004/game (396 words)

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