Archive for July 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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