Barbara Lippe Art Director & VP International Relations Avaloop (Austria)
Dr. Barbara Lippe is the lead artist at Avaloop Ltd.
Barbara worked as a character artist at the Tokyo-based design company FuriFuri Co. Her unique characters have been published in the character design encyclopedia Pictoplasma by Die Gestalten Verlag. Her art was exhibited in London, Damascus, Budapest, Seoul, Singapore and San Francisco. She was a juror for the Golden Nica Award of the Ars Electronica Festival in 2002 and columnist for Consol.at, the leading Austrian videogame magazine. Recently, she has been elected into the organising committee of the Nordic Game, the largest game developers conference of Scandinavia.
Barbara holds a Masters degree in multimedia art and a PhD in cultural studies with a doctoral dissertation on girls, videogames and Japan called "Game Boys for Play Girls!" and held talks and workshops in Austria, Sweden and Denmark. Her academic and job-related interests include virtual characters, fan cultures, user generated content, global youth scenes, leisure behaviour and gender as well as game scenes and markets in Asia.
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