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RETHINKING WARGAMES at CCA
Saturday 30 April, CCA:3 & Online: Free
Chess Tournament 12-3pm, Tournament Finale 5-6pm
Rethinking Wargames is a 3 player chess net art game developed by Ruth Catlow. In a reworking of the rules of chess, the pawns join forces to defend world peace and chess players are invited to find strategies that challenge existing power structures and their war machineries. 3 Player Chess can be played online, or on conventional chess boards. This competitive game is open to all skill levels, including players with only a basic understanding of conventional chess. You are invited to play on-line at www.low-fi.org.uk/rethinkingwargames.
On April 30th, Ruth Catlow faciliatated a Chess Tournament in the RISK exhibition.

RISK AND GAMING: Ruth Catlow and Simon Yuill
Saturday 30th April. CCA:3, 3 -5pm, Free
Ruth Catlow and Simon Yuill presented their respective computer games Rethinking Wargames and Spring Alpha. Glasgow-based artist Simon Yuill works with software and code systems and is interested in the formal aesthetics of Gaming and its wider social and ideological manifestation. Spring_alpha is a simulation game based on the urban revolt in Chad McCail's Spring and Evolution is Not Over Yet drawings. Visit www.spring-alpha.org

NOT ON THE LABEL: GMO Debate
Saturday 2nd April, 2-4pm, CCA:3, Free
Scientists Dr Arpad Pusztai & Dr Susan Bardocz along with Carey Coombs, Policy Manager, Soil Association discussed genetic modication in food and issues of freedom in scientific research in relation to global corporate funding. The debate explored questions such as:
What are the conspiracy and counter-conspiracy theories surrounding genetic modification and its scientific testing?
How can we re-think issues of local and global trade?

The discussion took place infront of a display of Free Range Grain Banners by Critical Art Ensemble. In Buffalo, USA May 2004 the FBI confiscated Critical Art Ensemble's Free Range Grain test for genetic modification in grain. In Scotland, scientist Arpad Pusztai was suspended in 1998 and later fired after discovering negative results in his research into the effects of GM foods on rats.

www.caedefensefund.org
www.critical-art.net

Operation T.A.K.E. (Toys Against Killing Everyone)
Saturday 26th March, 10 - 11.30am for kids, 12-5pm for adults, free
Work with the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) to transform toy soldiers into clowns. Bring your own war toys and soldiers to transform and add to the map of Gleneagles in the Clown Army War Room in the RISK exhibition.

Rebel Clowning: Taster Workshop
Saturday 26th March, 2 - 5pm, free
The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) ran a participatory workshop on the theory & practice of rebel clowning, civil disobedience tactics and the art of clowning. Image below: CIRCA close an Armed Forces Recruitment Office, 2004.

www.clownarmy.org

	RETHINKING WARGAMES at CCA Saturday 30 April, CCA:3 & Online: Free Chess Tournament 12-3pm, Tournament Finale 5-6pm Rethinking Wargames is a 3 player chess net art game developed by Ruth Catlow. In a reworking of the rules of chess, the pawns join forces to defend world peace and chess players are invited to find strategies that challenge existing power structures and their war machineries. 3 Player Chess can be played online, or on conventional chess boards. This competitive game is open to all skill levels, including players with only a basic understanding of conventional chess. You are invited to play on-line at www.low-fi.org.uk/rethinkingwargames. On April 30th, Ruth Catlow faciliatated a Chess Tournament in the RISK exhibition. RISK AND GAMING: Ruth Catlow and Simon Yuill Saturday 30th April. CCA:3, 3 -5pm, Free Ruth Catlow and Simon Yuill presented their respective computer games Rethinking Wargames and Spring Alpha. Glasgow-based artist Simon Yuill works with software and code systems and is interested in the formal aesthetics of Gaming and its wider social and ideological manifestation. Spring_alpha is a simulation game based on the urban revolt in Chad McCail's Spring and Evolution is Not Over Yet drawings. Visit www.spring-alpha.org
	NOT ON THE LABEL: GMO Debate Saturday 2nd April, 2-4pm, CCA:3, Free Scientists Dr Arpad Pusztai & Dr Susan Bardocz along with Carey Coombs, Policy Manager, Soil Association discussed genetic modication in food and issues of freedom in scientific research in relation to global corporate funding. The debate explored questions such as: What are the conspiracy and counter-conspiracy theories surrounding genetic modification and its scientific testing? How can we re-think issues of local and global trade? The discussion took place infront of a display of Free Range Grain Banners by Critical Art Ensemble. In Buffalo, USA May 2004 the FBI confiscated Critical Art Ensemble's Free Range Grain test for genetic modification in grain. In Scotland, scientist Arpad Pusztai was suspended in 1998 and later fired after discovering negative results in his research into the effects of GM foods on rats. www.caedefensefund.org www.critical-art.net
	Operation T.A.K.E. (Toys Against Killing Everyone) Saturday 26th March, 10 - 11.30am for kids, 12-5pm for adults, free Work with the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) to transform toy soldiers into clowns. Bring your own war toys and soldiers to transform and add to the map of Gleneagles in the Clown Army War Room in the RISK exhibition.
	Rebel Clowning: Taster Workshop Saturday 26th March, 2 - 5pm, free The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) ran a participatory workshop on the theory & practice of rebel clowning, civil disobedience tactics and the art of clowning. Image below: CIRCA close an Armed Forces Recruitment Office, 2004. www.clownarmy.org