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On the possibility of video games being regarded as art

September 11, 2014December 25, 201616 minute readby John Girgis

HELLO, WORLD!

I am an infectiously happy Canadian biochemical graduate student climbing my way up the ivory towers of academia, specifically working with satellite cells in skeletal muscle tissues. This micro-blog will serve as my primary place to text-dump my thoughts and reviews on everything and anything from book and record reviews, to my opinion on the work I and others do in the field.

The things I find interesting include the intersection between science and art, playing video games for charity, making weird and quirky robots and automated laboratory systems for research with Python, a lot of internet culture comics, the art behind data presentation, and the hope Universal Basic Income brings. Projects I am currently involved with include Biotown, Let's Talk Science, Extra Life's Ottawa Guild, Data For Good Ottawa and Open Data Ottawa. I also love Jazz and Post-Rock.

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