Speaker Announcement: Dan Golding

ATOM and ACMI are excited to announce the first of a slate of Games speakers for the Summit program.

Dr. Dan Golding is a critic, academic, and the director of the Freeplay Independent Games Festival. He holds a PhD from The University of Melbourne and is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology. He is the co-author of Game Changers: From Minecraft to Misogyny, The Fight for the Future of Videogames (Affirm Press, 2016) and is responsible for the music in the upcoming PlayStation 4 game Push Me Pull You. In 2015, his series A Short History of Video Games was broadcast on ABC Radio National, which was highly commended at the 13th Annual IT Journalism ‘Lizzie’ Awards. He is also a contributing editor for Metro Magazine.