BART SIMON is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. He is co-founder and current director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology. Bart's areas of expertise cross game studies, science and technology studies and cultural sociology. His game studies and design research focuses on the material and cultural dimensions of technologically mediated play and games. With Jorge Lopes Ramos and Jade Maravala (ZU-UK), Jaakko Stenros (Tampere) and Lynn Hughes (Concordia), he is working on a SSHRC funded project called Liveness in Theatre, LARP and Games
