***CfP: Ludotopia Workshop on Spaces, Places and Territories in Computer Games at the IT-University Copenhagen, 27-29th May 2010***
The Center for Computer Games Research of the IT-University of Copenhagen and the Digital Games Research Center of the University of Potsdam hereby invite researchers and scholars from Game Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies and related fields to hand in proposals for the 1st Ludotopia-Workshop to be held in Copenhagen in May 2010. The aim of the workshop is to evaluate current approaches to space in computer games as well as to discuss new ways of analyzing them. For this purpose papers will be selected and grouped in pairs. Contributors will then have to get in direct contact and prepare presentations on each others papers. These will then be discussed at the workshop. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Presentation and perception of computer game-spaces - Classification of computer game-spaces - Site-specifity in computer games - Function of maps in computer games Abstracts of 300-500 words are to be sent to ludotopia2...@googlemail.com by the 1st of March, clarifying the focus of the approach, the games to be analyzed and the related theories. Also welcome are suggestions for work-units. Participants will be notified by the 15th of March. Working papers need to be exchanged between the participants by the 1st of May and reworked until the 15th of May. The workshop is free of charge; participants are responsible for their own travel expenses and accommodation. Center for Computer Games Research IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej 7 DK-2300 Copenhagen http://game.itu.dk/ Digital Games Research Center University of Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10 D-14469 Potsdam http://www.digarec.org Call as pdf: http://www.digarec.de/2010/01/19/cfp-ludotopia-%e2%80%93-workshop-on-spaces- places-and-territories-in-computer-games-at-the-it-university-copenhagen-27- 29th-may-2010/ -- Sebastian Möring wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft Universität Potsdam DIGAREC Europäische Medienwissenschaft Institut für Künste und Medien Am Neuen Palais 10 D-14469 Potsdam Tel: +49 331 977 1461 (mittwochs) Mobil: +49 177 4665360 sebastian.moer...@digarec.org www.digarec.org *** DIGAREC Lectures 2009/10 *** with Mark J.P. Wolf, Espen Aarseth, Katie Salen, Frans Mäyrä, Lev Manovich further Information http://www.digarec.org/category/lectures. -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/