— artists —

asses.masses is created by a team of international artists led by Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim.

Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim are conceptual artists exploring urgent questions around the social value of art, digital labour, and the political potential of games. Mixing their backgrounds in performance, philosophy, psychology, and digital media, their collaborations have manifested in video games, participatory installations, digital archives, and card games. In addition to asses.masses, Patrick and Milton are also the co-founders of the Canadian national video archive of performance (videocan) and the co-creators behind a performing arts economy trading card game (culturecapital). Their projects have been presented across Canada, as well as in Argentina, Mexico, Europe, and the UK, in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Catalan.

core team

Patrick Blenkarn (Canada) — co-direction, text, programming, pixel art, 2D animation

Milton Lim (Canada) — co-direction, text, sound design, video, 3D visual effects

Laurel Green (Canada) — dramaturgy, text, touring producer

David Mesiha (Canada) — original music, sound design, audio implementation

Clarissa Picolo (Brazil) — pixel art, 2D animation

William Roth (France) — pixel art, 2D animation

Ariadne Sage (Germany) — 3D environments

Samuel Reinhart (USA) — additional programming

To read the biography of the full team, click here.