The Asphodel Institute and Centre for Modern Games is a joint initiative to prompt, provoke, and organize the emerging turn towards modernism in game design. The organization, headquartered in Toronto, enjoys the cooperation of a talented assembly of fellows scattered across three continents.
Whereas heretofore 'art games' have predominantly concerned themselves with their abstract capacity (can games be art? can a game make you cry? &c.), the Asphodel project is interested in the concrete achievements of game design as a unselfconcious, fully realized medium. We are especially interested in the particular formal qualities that characterize modern art, namely, a shift from memesis to absolute audiovisual phenomena, developing over time: i.e. from representation to action or becoming.
According to a general principle of pseudonymity and collective action, Asphodel does not mantain or disseminate a formal membership registry. You can contact our webmaster @ oleander.garden if you have any queries, or wish to confirm the affiliation of some self-declared fellow. We hope that you will join us, in Asphodel.