February 2010
Full listings and cinema details available at www.fact.co.uk

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)
88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ

EXHIBITIONS
Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment
Gallery 1, 2, Media Lounge & Public Spaces
17 December – 21 February
FREE
Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment explores the
increasingly blurred boundaries between videogame spaces and real spaces. It
features artists using games as a medium and subject (Blast Theory, Bill Viola,
Cao Fei, Ludic Society and more) alongside playable, commercial games that
push the limits of the medium. Space Invaders is part of a season of gaming at
FACT. The season includes interactive games events, competitions and a gamethemed
film programme.

EVENTS
TENANTSPIN LIVE EVENT
Mind Games
The Box
03 February 2.00pm - 3.00pm
FREE
We all play games, computer games, power games, competitive games. Game
playing is part of everyday life. We tactically choose actions to maximise returns.
Games explore the relationship between the real and the virtual space.
tenantspin invite you to ask the questions, how far can this virtual world of games
shape our reality, our health and well-being, our values and beliefs? Do games
have the potential to empower us or change our lives? Could the virtual games
we play today become the reality of tomorrow?

Gay Sunday
07 February Meet in FACT Foyer
2.00pm FREE
Come and chill out with an afternoon tour of FACT’s exciting group show, Space
Invaders. Join the exhibition coordinator. Omar Kholeif, on a special visit through
the galleries, then at 3.00pm, join us in The Box cinema to watch:

The Times of Harvey Milk
£7.40/5.40 (Concessions)
The absorbing, Oscar-winning documentary, The Life and Times of Harvey
Milk delves into the psyche of one of the most influential political figures in
LGBT history.
Book your place on the tour by emailing rsvp@fact.co.uk

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (screening and event)
The Box 10 February 6.00pm
£4.00/3.00 (Members & concs)
Todd Holland, 1989, 100mins
Forget The Terminator, this documentary charts the real-life battle between man
and machine, with little more than two bespectacled men staring at a
chessboard in the controversial match where world chess champion Garry
Kasparov lost to a computer. The screening will be followed by an engaging talk
and analysis with Professor David Robertson, Liverpool academic and worldclass
chess impresario, who helped organise Liverpool's hugely successful EU
chess tournament in 2008.

Mario & Juliet
The Box 14 February
3.30m – 5.30pm
£4.00/£3.00 Members & concs
Don’t be left alone with your joystick this Valentines Day. Come along for a fun
evening of two-player gaming with likeminded people, break the ice with a ‘shoot
‘em up’ and check your compatibility with a puzzle game. If you get a high-score
it might just be the start of something beautiful…

LAN Party
The Box 16 February
5.00pm-10.00pm FREE
Come armed with your laptop or computer tower and prepare to battle it out in a
rollicking LAN party. We will supply you the Local Area Network, pizzas, and soda
– you chose the game. The winner will walk away with a bag full of prizes, and the
enviable title of Master of the Universe.

Songs for an Airless Room
The Box 22 February 8.00pm
£7.00/£5.00 (Members & concs)
Songs for an Airless Room is a piece of music to be performed in cinemas.
Featuring the vocal extremes of Phil Minton and drive of percussionist Joby
Burgess, with computer processing, live visuals and surround sound, the piece
explores a potential for obsessive isolation wrought by digital technologies.
Supported by the University of Edinburgh and Scottish Arts Council

FILM EVENT
British Animation Awards:
Public Choice
The Box 23 - 25 February 6.30pm
£4.00/£3.00 (Members & concs)
FACT is delighted to present the British Animation Awards Public Choice
Programme over three consecutive nights this February.

The British Animation Awards invites you, the audience, to vote for winners in
three categories, by viewing entries, then using voting-forms supplied at the
screenings. Each programme contains a mix of short films, animated
commercials and music videos, drawn from entries to BAA 2010, including
several international festival award winners.