Game Education Summit Europe

Maggie achieved international success, exhibiting her fine-art work in galleries and alternative art spaces.  She was one of the pioneers of digital art as a fine-art medium in it's own right, creating many of the first pieces of digital art exhibited in galleries. This interest in the digital playscape landscape led to her completing her doctorate, researching mechanisms of self & identity, when interacting with virtual environments, including computer-game environments. This was achieved by building and testing her environment 'Star World', an interactive, abstract virtual environment.

Maggie lectures in digital art, drawing and animation for computer games. 

To view her professional portfolio see tees.academia.edu/MaggieParker

Curating the 'Greig Gallery' in the School of Computing's Greig Building at Teesside University, Maggie showcases both computer game industry concept art work, undergraduate and post-graduate work. More recently showing work in 'Teeslife' Teesside University's presence in Second Life.

Maggie has been elected to the advisory board for the upcoming Game Education Summit to be held at the National Film School in Copenhagen in June 2010.

Maggie was an invited judge for the IEEE Computer Society's web contest, and is a paper reviewer for several conferences.  She was awarded chartered membership of the British Computer Society and has been invited to speak at national and international conferences, both as keynote speaker and to deliver cutting edge research ideas. She has written several articles for publications and organisations including Futurelab and speaks about the future uses of computer games.

Having organised and chaired the art and computer game panel at WIG2007 and co-organised the WIG2006 conference, previously as part of the  select committee. Maggie continues to support WIG aims and objectives.  In 2005-6, she completed a Senior Fellowship with Digital City, this led to a Microsoft sponsored trip to the Women in Games International Conferencein Austin, Texas.