About this Event
As games become increasingly sophisticated in their world-building and storytelling, how can we start to approach and appreciate them as literary and artistic works? How does approaching literature as games open possibilities for writing and creative expression?
In this talk, wordsmith Daryl Lim explores how games and concepts of play have inspired literary expression and generated texts and experimental work, such as the work of the Oulipo movement, choose-your-own-adventure stories, and crossword puzzles. Daryl will unpack how technology has been creatively used to further the boundaries of games as literature and how seeing video games as literature broadens our sense of literary possibility.
About the Speaker
Daryl Lim Wei Jie is a poet, editor and translator from Singapore. He is the author of A Book of Changes and Anything But Human, a finalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. He conceptualised and co-edited two anthologies: Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet, which won a Special Award at the 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, and The Second Link, which invites Singapore and Malaysian writers to reflect on the unique relationship between the two countries. He also translated Short Tongue, a collection of works by the Singaporean Chinese poet Wang Mun Kiat. He won the Young Artist Award in 2023, Singapore’s highest award for young art practitioners. www.darylwjlim.com
Photo - credit to National Arts Council
About the Rare Gallery Exhibition
This display traces the history of early presses and printing in 19th-century Singapore through a selection of the oldest local titles from the National Library’s Rare Materials Collection.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
National Library Building, Possibility Room, 100 Victoria Street Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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