Total Refusal to Lecture on Hijacking Video Games at John Cabot University in Rome

Key facts

• Total Refusal lectures on Monday, September 28 at 6:00pm in GG2 – Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus, John Cabot University, via della Lungara 233, Rome
• The lecture is part of the DDD Event Series, organized and sponsored by the JCU Department of Communication and Media Studies with Re:humanism and Roma Europa Festival
• Susanna Flock of Total Refusal explores hijacking video games through machinima, artistic counter-play and détournement
• Projects cited include Hardly Working, on looping exploited NPCs in Red Dead Redemption 2, and A World At Stake
• Total Refusal comprises Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner and Michael Stumpf
• The collective adopted its name in 2018, inspired by the anti-war movement and refusal of obligatory military training, emerging from the project "Operation Jane Walk"
• Total Refusal identifies four ideological pillars of AAA games: meritocracy, militarism, masculinism and majestism
• Current productions include Money Is a Form of Speech, shot in The Division 2, and Susanna Flock's ORBITING, shot in Star Citizen