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Games Summit 2014 | 03 October 2014
We would like to inform you about Games Summit 2014, which is right around the corner! Games Summit 2014 will bring together professionals and help build a solid future for the Flemish gaming industry by looking at international success stories.
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CfP: Historical Games: Representation, Diversity and Ideology
As part of the larger Challenge the Past/Diversify the Future conference, the organisers would like to draw attention to this specific additional call for papers on historical representations in games.
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DiGRA Flanders meeting (October 22, 2014)
We are pleased to announce the next DiGRA Flanders meeting at VRT Research & Innovation in the famous Marconi Studio.
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CfP: International Symposium “Textual Machines” (University of Georgia, USA)
“Textual Machines” is an international symposium exploring literary objects that produce texts through the material interaction with mechanical devices or procedures. We define “textual machines” as a perspective on literature and book objects where text is “a mechanical device for the production and consumption of verbal signs” (Espen J. Aarseth). From the symposium’s perspective, textual…
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CfP: North American Conference on Video Game Music (2015
Deadline: October 1, 2014 Conference Dates: January 17–18, 2015 Conference Venue: Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, TX)
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CfP: International Conference Series in Games and Literary Theory
The Digital Games and Literary Theory Conference Series addresses the scope and appeal of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of games and games’ impact on other fields in the Humanities. We are particularly interested in digital game modalities and how these might be seen as reconfiguring and questioning concepts, practices and orthodoxies integral to literary…
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CfP: Participants needed for panel on Identity and Play @ HICHumanities
Play with self and personal identity can vary over time, across media, and as a consequence of psychological and social context. Our focus in this panel will be to investigate how digital media designs and services affect the construction and maintenance of self.
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Audio from presentations at ‘Born Digital and Cultural Heritage’ Conference available
Audio of the presentations from last month’s Born Digital and Cultural Heritage conference, held in Melbourne, is now up on the Play It Again website at http://playitagainproject.org/conference-report/.
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Making the City Playable Conference 2014
Featuring Google Creative Lab’s Tom Uglow, architect Usman Haque, artist Luke Jerram and Ogilvy’s Tara Austin, this two-day international conference will explore the theme of the ‘Playable City’, asking what it might mean for citizens, urban planners, tech giants, small companies, artists and designers in imagining and making the cities of the future.
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CfP: EyePlay – The First Workshop on the Applications of Gaze in Games (@CHIPlay)
What new challenges does the combination of games and eye-tracking present? As eye-tracking technology is now an affordable commodity, its appeal as a sensing technology for games is set to become the driving force for novel methods of player-computer interaction and games evaluation. The EyePlay workshop brings together researchers and industry specialists to…
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CfP: SCMS 2015: game-related panels
Please find below a list of conveners seeking participants for game-related pre-constituted panels at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference in Montreal, March 25-29, 2015. Panel conveners will be in charge of vetting, compiling, and submitting final proposals by the SCMS deadline of August 29th, 2014, through the SCMS website at cmstudies.org
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LARP Event Sunday afternoon DiGRA 2014 (sign up now!)
Margaret Simkins has agreed to run Geraldine’s Birthday Party, a beginner-friendly theater-style live action role playing game set in 1965 Upstate New York. The game will be at Snowbird on Sunday afternoon. Exact time and room are yet to be determined, but it should start around noon with game beginning around 1:00pm (Mountain Time).
