Thermophiles in Love
“Welcome to Thermophiles in Love, the five-gender dating game for microorganisms! Learn your true thermophile gender and find your “special three someones” in a microscopic world where everyone longs to be come part of to the perfect quadrouple.” Thermophiles in Love, the Larp Thermophiles in Love (2016) is a multimedia collaboration between Samara Hayley Steele, Mark…
The Slingshot Collective
The Slingshot Collective has been making media in the utopian margins for over 30 years, producing a quarterly newspaper that elevates the voices of freegans, radical squatters, guerrilla gardeners, prisoners, sex workers, punk rockers, bossless workplace organizers, abuse victims, tree-sitters, rioters, and others who aim to co-create “the better” through a diversity of tactics that include…
Land Action
The Activist Squatting Movement in the United States often traces its roots back to the European Autonomous Movements of the 1970s, when those seeking social change turned away from the overtly political tactics of ’68, and began to occupy abandoned buildings, creating “autonomous” spaces that attempted to operate outside of the logic of capitalism. This…
The Living Games Conference
Steele been an active part of the Living Games Conference since its inauguration in 2014 as a scholar and mediamaker. Her scholarly presentations have explored interactive narrative media in conjunction with gender, political economy, and critical code studies (CCS). Her paper The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans was printed by the…
