Sebastian Möring, PhD

October 24, 2025

A Lift Home (S1:E3) for Dr. Joleen Blom

A Lift Home is back and ready to take off, soon! In the next episode (S1:E3), live on November 19, 2025, we will take premium passenger Dr. Joleen Blom from Lublin-Świdnik (EPLB), where our plane was parked for almost two years, to Helsinki-Vantaa (EFHK). The departure time will be 7 pm (Central European Time)/8 pm (Eastern European Time) and the...

News/Projects

October 13, 2025

Positionspapier zur Etablierung einer Spielwissenschaft

[English below] 26 Spielwissenschaftler:innen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen haben gemeinsam das Positionspapier “Zur Etablierung einer Spielwissenschaft: Potenziale, Perspektiven und institutionelle Anforderungen” verfasst. Es wurde am 2. Juni 2025 in der PAIDIA. Zeitschrift für Computerspielforschung veröffentlicht. Das Papier ist ein Versuch, die Fähigkeiten und Potenziale der deutschen Spielwissenschaft darzustellen und zugleich zu skizzieren, was es braucht, um diese Forschung besser institutionell zu...

News/Politics/Publication/Workshop

May 13, 2025

Ringvorlesung Humboltⁿ

[English below] Ich freue mich sehr über die Einladung zur Ringvorlesung von Humboldtⁿ im Sommersemester 2025. Am 22. MAI 2025 um 16:00 (s.t.) spreche ich “Zur Rolle des Klimas in Computerspielen“. Die dahinterstehende Forschung habe ich zu großen Teilen in Kooperation mit meiner Kollegin Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider durchgeführt. Ich werde einige Einblicke in unser ästhetisches Analyseschema geben und aus...

Lecture/News/Research/Teaching

May 1, 2025

Camera Ludica now in Italian

[German and Italian below] Wonderful news: Camera Ludica is now available in Italian. The text ‘Camera Ludica: Reflections on Photography in Video Games’ by Marco De Mutiis and myself has been translated into Italian. This chapter is part of the recently published volume “Fotoludica. Fotografia e videogiochi tra arte e documentazione”, edited by Matteo Bittanti and Marco De Mutiis at...

Publication/Research

April 23, 2025

European Encounters – Perspectives on Games across the Analog and the Digital

I look forward to participating in the virtual meetup series “European Encounters” organized by Indiana University Europe Gateway. On April 29, 2025 | 1 pm EDT / 7 pm CEST (19:00), I will meet Prof. Marco Arnaudo, author of The Tabletop Revolution: Gaming Reimagined in the 21st Century (2024). We will “discuss innovations in the field of game research from both the...

News/Panels

March 11, 2025

Zu Gast im Podcast lernen : next level

[English below] Ich war vor einiger Zeit zu Gast im Podcast lernen : next level, der sich mit dem Thema “Game-based Learning[…] und seiner Anwendung im Bildungsbereich” beschäftigt und dazu verschiedene Expert*innen einlädt. In der Folge “#6 – Umsetzung für den Unterricht” durfte ich mit den Hosts Mandy Dörre und Kevin Birkefeld über meine Erfahrungen zum Einsatz von Computerspielen im...

Media/Projects/Teaching

March 3, 2025

Basic Readings on In-Game Photography

This is a list of basic readings on in-game photography as a practice, medium, and art form: Web sources http://gamescenes.org https://gta5.photography/artworks https://videogametourism.at http://ingame.photography

Research/Teaching/Workshop

February 28, 2025

Games Now! on March 3!

Update March 4, 2025: Here is the video of my talk at Games Now! Event Week: I will be speaking at Games Now! on March 3! I am very happy to deliver my talk, “Frame the Game – Approaching Photographic Practices in Computer Games” as part of the kick-off of the Games Now! Event Week of Spring 2025. The talk...

Lecture/Media/News

November 17, 2023

A Lift Home (S1:E2) for Dr. Agata Waszkiewicz

In the next stream of A Lift Home (S1:E2), live on November 30, 2023, we will take premium passenger Dr. Agata Waszkiewicz from Copenhagen (EKCH) to Lublin-Świdnik (EPLB). The departure time will be 7 pm (Central European Time) and the estimated flight time will be around 1.5 hours. We may go live earlier when our pilot begins to configure the...

News/Projects

October 1, 2023

Quartet of Games Culture

One of this year’s most memorable professional experiences was definitely the “Quartet of Games Culture” (“Das Quartett der Spielekultur”). It took place on the evening of June 29, 2023 at the German Literature Archive (Deutsches Literaturarchiv – DLA) in Marbach. In this edition of this talk show series game designer Tracy Fullerton (Los Angeles), ludic wanderer Sonia Fizek (Cologne), and...

Conferences/News/Panels/Research