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[ecrea] BAD games

Thu Jul 16 15:29:02 GMT 2009



The Play Research Group at the University of the West of England will be
playing BADgames in Bristol on Saturday. The programme for the colloquium is
now online: www.playfulsubjects.org.

The Play Research Group at the University of the West of England, Bristol
hosts a day of research outlines, position papers, media projects and
provocations on the theme of Bad Games.

Bad Games will:

· Question Game Studies' celebration of its objects of study
Thematise games and play as a central yet ambivalent characteristic of
digital culture
Question influential assumptions of the liberatory potential of interactivity
· Reflect on, revise, reject, renovate or otherwise refresh critical
modelings of ludic digital culture that assume it be an intrinsically
positive, creative or subversive alternative to ?old media?
· Complicate simplistic moral panics about bad games and their effects
· Consider bad games in the context and rubrics of other ?bad? media theory

Bad Games are Sex games, Game death, War games, Shit games, Black games, Bad
art, Evil children, Diseased games, Power games

We will promote nasty play, celebrate easy play,revel in war, violence and
death, insist on sex, savage 'serious' games, acquiesce to the hyperreal

best wishes
Seth



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