Kill Screen Festival

The Kill Screen Festival (often simply known as Kill Screen Fest; formerly two5six) is an annual video game developer conference inaugurated on 11 May 2013 in New York City by the print and online magazine Kill Screen. The annual conference focuses on video games, art and culture and features speakers from both the entertainment and video game industry.

Kill Screen Festival
Date(s)May – June
Venue
Years activeMay 11, 2013 (2013-05-11)
Next event2017 (2017)
Organised byKill Screen
Websitekillscreen.com

History
Previous logo for two5six from 2013–2015.

The conference was announced on 20 March 2013 by Kill Screen on Vimeo and was named two5six, which was filmed at The Invisible Dog Art Center.[1] The conference was officially inaugurated on 11 May 2013 at The Invisible Dog Art Center. It was held on 16 May 2014 again at the Roulette Intermedium and at Villain from 15–17 May.

Within the 2015 two5six festival, Kill Screen introduced Game Academy, an event workshop where participants who had little-to-no knowledge of code could learn. Intel sponsored some workshops and provided "game scholars", those experienced in programming.[2] It also expanded to include a film festival,[3] effectively making the festival two days longer.

In April 2016, Kill Screen announced that two5six became Kill Screen Festival, and was held on 4 June at the Roulette Intermedium.[4]

Conference
Year Date Location Speakers
2013[5] 11 May The Invisible Dog Art Center Tim Schafer, Rod Humble, Paola Antonelli, Yancey Strickler, Robin Hunicke, Dennis Crowley, Dave Merrill, Zach Klein, Mike Sepso, Chris Poole, Bill Squadron, Palmer Luckey, Matt Boch, Jeffrey Yohalem, Jeffrey Lin, Nicholas Felton, Christopher Paretti, Andy Hunter, Constance Steinkuehler
2014[6] 16 May Roulette Intermedium Alexis Ohanian, Kevin Slavin, Jennifer Hale, Tarn Adams, Zach Adams, Kaho Abe, Catherine Burns, Becky Stern, Patrick Balthrop, Jake Barton, Steve Gaynor, Tamas Kemenczy, Alessia Laidacker, Miles Ludwig, Terence Nance, Johanna Zom, Rana el Kaliouby, Kevin Bruner, Mike Wood
2015[7] 15-17 May[8] Villain Randy Hunt, Katherine Bidwell, Christian Rudder, David OReilly, Lucainne Walcowiz, Torfi Olafsson, Willow Mellbratt[9]
2016 4 June Roulette Intermedium N/A

References
  1. "Twofivesix: A Videogame Arts + Culture Conference". Vimeo. 20 March 2013.
  2. Jess, Joho (29 May 2015). "Two5six Scholars Program Brings Diversity To Video Game Creation". iQ. Retrieved 18 October 2016 – via Intel.
  3. "Game On: Two5Six Festival Celebrates Culture and Video Games". FLOOD Magazine. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  4. "Two5six is now The Kill Screen Festival". Kill Screen. 12 April 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016 – via Kill Screen Media.
  5. "Twofivesix: A Videogame Arts + Culture Conference". Kill Screen. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  6. "TWO5SIX". Kill Screen. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  7. "TWO5SIX 2015". Kill Screen. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  8. "Our annual Two5six conference is back May 15–17". Kill Screen. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2016 – via Kill Screen Media, Inc.
  9. "Two5six Festival 2015 @ Villain". Vamos. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
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