Tag: game studies

“The Game Itself? : Towards a Hermeneutics of Computer Games” now available as open access and as video

Our paper “The Game Itself? : Towards a Hermeneutics of Computer Games” is now available as open access publication via the DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3402978. The video of the talk can be watched here: Espen Aarseth and I presented it in September 2020 at the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG ’20). Our submission received a mention as an exceptional...

Opening of DIGAREC In-Game Photo Gallery, July 16, 2020, 6 pm CET

Opening of the real virtual DIGAREC In-Game Photo Gallery which shows a number of in-game photographical works which were produced by students of European Media Studies – a joint program of University of Potsdam and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. The exhibition presents the results of their practical explorations of the medium of in-game photography as participants of three university seminars on the subject focusing on different topics: “Medial Environments, Milieus and Landscapes” (class of 2016), “Machines_ _Ethics; _Poetry; _Politics; _Poetics” (class of 2018), “Media Reflexivity” (class of 2019/20). This exhibition exists only online and makes use of the virtual meeting tool Mozilla Hubs. It is designed by Lars Pinkwart and curated by Sebastian Möring.