Patrick LeMieux is an artist, game designer, and Ph.D. student in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. As a researcher in the Speculative Sensation Lab and the Greater Than Games Lab, his practice addresses alternative software and hardware design, the phenomenology of computational media, and the convergence of leisure and labor in an information economy. He has exhibited in museums and galleries around North America and is currently coauthoring a book with Stephanie Boluk called « Metagames: Alternative Histories of Play. »