Cassie McQuater
Black Room
about
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Cassie McQuater (b. Detroit, USA) is a new media and video game artist currently living and working in Los Angeles, California. Her games and experimental narratives have been shown at the 21st International Symposium of Electronic Art in Vancouver, on the main stage at Madison Square Garden in NYC, in DIY gallery arcade spaces in Detroit, and at various alternative game festivals around the world. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Michigan School of Art & Design in 2009. She taught herself to code and started working in interactive media and video games in 2013. Her current work is in part influenced by her grandmother, who stayed up every night playing Zelda until dawn.
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Black Room (2017) is a narrative game about an insomniac falling asleep while online. The game reclaims the sprawling, pixelated landscapes of vintage games and co-opts their female characters as leading protagonists, performing an unexpected coup on a gaming world traditionally designed for men.